Chapter 9: Fostering Innovation

Ok so I’m officially behind now, so time to catch up a little bit! Gonna blitz this chapter RQ

Suggested definitions of innovation:

  • Any idea, practice, or material artifact perceived as new by the relevant unit of adoption
    • Innovation is always relative to the group it’s being introduced to

Categories of innovations:

  • Goods innovation
  • Process innovation
  • Service innovation
  • Structural innovation
  • System innovation

Organizational innovation is fostered and restricted by determinants:

  • Managerial determinants
  • Organizational determinants (size/complexity/etc)
  • Environmental determinants

And that’s the end of our show! Bonk!

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