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Chapter 13
Innovation,
Intrapreneurship,
and Creativity
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Learning Objectives
1. Describe how innovation and
technological change affect each
other
2. Discuss the relationship among
innovation, intrapreneurship, and
creativity
3. Understand the many steps involved
in creating an organizational setting
that fosters innovation and creativity
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Innovation and
Technological Change
Innovation: process by which new
goods and services or new production
and operating systems are developed
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Types of Innovation
Quantum technological change:
a rare, fundamental shift in
technology that revolutionizes
products or the way they are
produced
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Technological discontinuity
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Figure 13.1:
The Technology Cycle
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Property Rights
Innovation is expensive and needs to
be protected
Patents
Copyrights
Trademarks
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Innovation, Entrepreneurship,
and Creativity
Intrapreneurs: leaders of innovation
and new product development in
established organizations
Notice opportunities
Manage product development
May leave organization if their ideas are
not supported
Become entrepreneurs
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Innovation, Entrepreneurship,
and Creativity (cont.)
Creativity: ideas going beyond the
current boundaries, whether those
boundaries are based on technology,
knowledge, social norms, or beliefs
Knowledge-creating organization:
an organization where innovation is
going on at all levels and in all areas
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Entrepreneurship as Creative
Destruction
Creative destruction: new companies
use new global and technological
opportunities to make better products that
drive old, inefficient companies out of
business
Old inefficient companies are driven out
of business
Emergence of new industries
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The
The
The
The
embryonic stage
growth stage
maturity stage
decline stage
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Minimal demand
Demand increases
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Goal is to determine:
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Managing the
Innovation Process (cont.)
Stage-gate development funnel (cont.)
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Managing the
Innovation Process (cont.)
Team leadership
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Organizational structure
Creating the right setting is important to
fostering innovation
Increasing organization size, age, and
complexity may slow innovation
Organic structures tend to promote innovation
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Innovation and
Information Synergies
Information synergies: the
knowledge building created when
individuals or subunits pool their
resources and collaborate across
boundaries
Boundary-spanning activity: the
interactions of people/groups across
the organizational boundary to obtain
valuable information and knowledge
from the environment
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IT and Organizational
Structure and Culture
IT affects the innovation process
through its many effects on
organizational structure
IT gives lower-level employees more
detailed and current knowledge of
consumer and market trends and
opportunities
IT can produce information synergies
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IT and Organizational
Structure and Culture (cont.)
IT means that fewer levels of
managers are needed to handle
problem solving and decision making
IT provides lower-level employees
with more freedom to coordinate
their actions
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IT and Organizational
Structure and Culture (cont.)
IT facilitates the sharing of beliefs,
values, and norms
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