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Enabling Innovation

Innovative Capability - German and International Views

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Editors:
  1. Sabina Jeschke

    1. , ZLW/IMA & IfU - Faculty of Mechanical En, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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  2. Ingrid Isenhardt

    1. , ZLW/IMA & IfU, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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  3. Frank Hees

    1. ZLW, ZLW/IMA & IfU, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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  4. Sven Trantow

    1. , ZLW/IMA & IfU, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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  • New perspective on the central topic of innovation
  • Transdisciplinary contributions that adress researchers, politicians and economic actors
  • International contributions of experts from thirteen differenz countries
  • Each topic is analyzed by a national and an international expert
  • Contributions contain visions and recommendations for Germany
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (45 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Innovative Capability – an Introduction to this Volume

    • Sven Trantow, Frank Hees, Sabina Jeschke
    Pages 1-13

  3. Management of Uncertainty – Key to Innovation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Management of Uncertainty – A Blind Spot in the Promotion of Innovations

      • Fritz Böhle
      Pages 17-29

    3. Management of Uncertainty – A Contradiction in Itself?

      • Petra Dassen-Housen
      Pages 31-33

    4. Beyond Planning and Control. Alternative Approaches to the Management of Industrial Research and Development

      • Harald Wolf
      Pages 35-45

    5. The Role of Psychological Contract in Supporting Innovation Activity

      • Elise Ramstad
      Pages 47-51

    6. New Forms of Project Organization and Project Management – Dynamic and Open

      • Sibylle Peters
      Pages 53-64

    7. Managing in Complexity

      • Harold Jarche
      Pages 65-67

    8. Innovation and Learning – For a Future of Lifelong Learning

      • Johannes Sauer
      Pages 69-79

    9. Innovation, Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning

      • Stephen Downes
      Pages 81-83

    10. Uncertainty in Institutional Change. Individual Resources as Potential1

      • Martin Elbe
      Pages 85-95

    11. Finding Common Ground for Innovation

      • Michael Brannick
      Pages 97-100

  4. Developing Skills, Work Systems, Work Processes – an Innovative Challenge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. What’s Going On Out There? – Designing Work Systems for Learning in Real Life

      • Ernst Hartmann, Francesco Garibaldo
      Pages 103-116

    3. Learning in Real Life

      • Lauge Baungaard Rasmussen
      Pages 117-120

    4. Job Learning in the Hands of New Actors – Challenges for the Innovative Capability of Companies

      • Yvonne Salazar, Sibylle Peters
      Pages 121-131

    5. Computer-based, Individual Learning at Work: Developments and Trends

      • Anna Maria Köck, Klaus Tochtermann
      Pages 133-137

    6. Integrating Innovation, Work, and Learning in Higher Education – The Case of Work Based Learning Frameworks

      • Barbara Light, Ernst Hartmann
      Pages 139-160

    7. Challenges and Perspectives concerning the Integration of Vocational Learning into Higher Education

      • Rita Meyer
      Pages 161-163
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About this book

The capability to innovate in an on-going manner is emerging as a decisive key factor in today's world of business and work. The ability to stay competitive is becoming identical with the ability to innovate. This book originated from the research and development project “International Monitoring” and outlines the topic of innovative capability from a practice-oriented angle. Contributions of German and international experts offer an enlightening glimpse behind the scenes of innovations. The central issue is not the description of features of successful innovation processes or how innovations can be efficiently controlled and managed, but under which conditions they can emerge in the first place. In what way can individuals, organizations, networks and societies be enabled to continuously induce innovations?

Editors and Affiliations

  • , ZLW/IMA & IfU - Faculty of Mechanical En, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Sabina Jeschke

  • , ZLW/IMA & IfU, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

    Ingrid Isenhardt, Sven Trantow

  • ZLW, ZLW/IMA & IfU, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

    Frank Hees

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Enabling Innovation

  • Book Subtitle: Innovative Capability - German and International Views

  • Editors: Sabina Jeschke, Ingrid Isenhardt, Frank Hees, Sven Trantow

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24503-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-24502-2Published: 09 October 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42996-5Published: 30 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-24503-9Published: 08 October 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 488

  • Topics: Innovation/Technology Management, R & D/Technology Policy

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