Innovating in Practice: Perspectives and Experiences

✍ Scribed by Tiziana Russo-Spena, Cristina Mele, Maaria Nuutinen (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 523
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The purpose of the book is to devise an alternative conceptual vocabulary for studying innovation by stressing the role of social, contextual and cultural perspectives. This vocabulary is drawn on a service and on sociological perspectives on innovation based on the ontological assumption that innovation is a value co-creation matter and that it takes place in a reality that is multiple, constructed and socially embedded. The aim is to tackle key issues such as social construction, service innovation, knowledge and learning processes, value (co) creation, innovating and innovation activities networking and collaborative innovation.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Schools of Innovation Thought....Pages 13-41
Extending the Context of Innovation: The Co-creation and Institutionalization of Technology and Markets....Pages 43-57
Market Innovation: Renewal of Traditional Industrial Networks....Pages 59-81
Practice-Based Approaches to Learning and Innovating....Pages 83-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Innovating as a Texture of Practices....Pages 113-137
Innovating as an Interaction of Practices: The Case of Customers’ Use of a New Website....Pages 139-157
Practices of Service Innovation Diffusion....Pages 159-178
Innovation with Effectuation: An Opportunity for the Public Sector....Pages 179-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Framing the New Social–Service Innovation Mindset....Pages 205-235
Conceptualizing Resource Integration to Advance Service Innovation....Pages 237-259
Service Innovation and Smart Cities: Linking the Perspectives....Pages 261-287
Front Matter....Pages 289-289
Value Proposal Co-Creation in Online Community-Based Idea Contests....Pages 291-316
Customer-Centric Service Innovation in Public–Private Value Networks....Pages 317-338
Business Model Design and Value Co-creation: Looking for a New Pattern....Pages 339-361
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
Seeking New Ways of Innovating in Industry-Research Collaboration Practice....Pages 365-391
Practice-Based ‘Inside-Out’ Innovation in Public Service: A Regional Child Welfare Agency....Pages 393-415
Service Innovation in Translational Medicine....Pages 417-438
Stakeholder Engagement in Sustainability Innovation: Experiences in the Jewellery Business....Pages 439-459
Front Matter....Pages 461-461
Co-development and Retooling as New Roles for Applied Research....Pages 463-486
Front Matter....Pages 461-461
Inter-professional Collaboration: An Evaluation Study....Pages 487-507
Investigating Elderly Care Contexts According to Stakeholders’ Needs....Pages 509-529

✦ Subjects

Innovation/Technology Management;Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology;Business Strategy/Leadership