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Behavioral Competencies for Innovation

Using Emotional Intelligence to Foster Innovation

  • Addresses a timely and neglected topic: the role of 'soft skills' in promoting the innovation processes in firms
  • Provides empirical cases of how managers and entrepreneurs in small to medium sized firms implement successful innovations by deploying their portfolio of behavioral competencies

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Current Trends in Innovation Management and the Role of Human Capital

    • Sara Bonesso, Laura Cortellazzo, Fabrizio Gerli
    Pages 1-14
  3. The Intangible Human Side of Innovation: A Competency-Based View

    • Sara Bonesso, Laura Cortellazzo, Fabrizio Gerli
    Pages 15-34
  4. Behavioral Competencies in New Product Development Teams

    • Sara Bonesso, Laura Cortellazzo, Fabrizio Gerli
    Pages 51-67
  5. Managing Innovation Through a Competency-Based Approach

    • Sara Bonesso, Laura Cortellazzo, Fabrizio Gerli
    Pages 69-78
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 79-81

About this book

This book represents the first comprehensive investigation of the role of emotional intelligence in promoting innovation in the organizational context. Offering emerging insights into the human side of innovation. This book highlights how it has become strategically important for firm innovativeness to identify and evaluate those behavioral competencies that enable entrepreneurs and professionals to generate different types of innovation (product, process, marketing, organizational and strategic innovation). It illustrates a classification of behavioral competencies for innovation and provides empirical evidence collected through the application of the competency-based methodology to a sample of entrepreneurs and new product development teams. This book provides practical policy and managerial implications on how to develop and evaluate behavioral competencies in the higher education and organizational settings in order to foster individual innovation capacity.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy

    Sara Bonesso, Laura Cortellazzo, Fabrizio Gerli

About the authors

Sara Bonesso is Associate Professor of Business Organization and Human Resources Management at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Management. She is also one of the founders and the Vice-Director of the Ca’ Foscari Competency Centre.





Laura Cortellazzo is Post Doc Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Business Organization and Human Resources Management at the Cà Foscari University, Department of Management.




Fabrizio Gerli is Associate Professor of Business Organization and Human Resources Management at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Management. He is also one of the founders and the Director of the Ca’ Foscari Competency Centre.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Behavioral Competencies for Innovation

  • Book Subtitle: Using Emotional Intelligence to Foster Innovation

  • Authors: Sara Bonesso, Laura Cortellazzo, Fabrizio Gerli

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40734-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham

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

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40733-9Published: 21 May 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40736-0Published: 22 May 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40734-6Published: 20 May 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 81

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Innovation/Technology Management, Knowledge Management, Business Strategy/Leadership, Human Resource Development

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eBook USD 44.99
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Softcover Book USD 59.99
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Hardcover Book USD 59.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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