Human Aspects of Innovation
TU/e Innovation management
1JM06 - Q1 2020/21
,Table of Contents
Human Aspects of Innovation ................................................................................................................. 1
Week 1................................................................................................................................................. 1
Lecture 1: What is innovation?........................................................................................................ 1
Lecture 2: Creativity: the starting point of innovation .................................................................... 1
Lecture 3: Creativity in groups and teams....................................................................................... 3
Lecture 4: New insights in the componential theory of creativity and innovation......................... 5
Week 3................................................................................................................................................. 6
Lecture 5: Thinking tools and thinking creatively............................................................................ 6
Lecture 6: From creativity to innovation ......................................................................................... 7
Lecture video: Creative problem solving process ........................................................................... 8
Lecture 8: Brainstorming ................................................................................................................. 8
Week 5................................................................................................................................................. 9
Lecture 9: Complect collaboration in innovation ............................................................................ 9
Lecture 10: Team diversity ............................................................................................................ 10
Lecture 11: Facilitate diversity ...................................................................................................... 11
Week 6............................................................................................................................................... 15
Lecture 12: Creativity under the gun with time pressure ............................................................. 15
Lecture 13: The role of leadership................................................................................................ 15
Lecture video: ................................................................................................................................ 17
Week 7............................................................................................................................................... 18
Lecture video: Support mechanisms for innovation ..................................................................... 18
Lecture video: Three ingredients to ignite innovation: ................................................................. 18
Lecture 16: Leader support for innovation ................................................................................... 19
, Week 1
Lecture 1: What is innovation?
The intentional introduction and application* within a role, group or organization of ideas, products,
processes or procedures*, new to the relevant unit of adoption*, designed to significantly benefit the
individual, the group, the organization or the wider society.
*Innovation implementation
*Not only products, also other things such as the video lecture for this course.
Types of innovation:
*Company here = unit of adoption^^
Innovations could add value and benefit by:
• Stimulating economic growth
• Make our lives more pleasant
• Deal with threat to society
Lecture 2: Creativity: the starting point of innovation
Creativity is the ability to come up with ideas, problem solutions or insights that are both novel and
appropriate within a given domain.
• Appropriate, but not novel: routine, non-exceptional
• Novel, but inappropriate: useless, non-functional
Indicators of creative performance
• Fluency: the number of non-redundant ideas (many ideas)
• Originality: uncommonness (wedding dress)
• Flexibility: use of different cognitive categories (storage facility is one category for the
milk bottle)
Creativity is a necessary, yet insufficient condition for innovation:
• Without novel and useful ideas, insights and solutions, there is no innovation
• Yet, creativity does not necessarily lead to innovation and implementation in the field.
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TU/e Innovation management
1JM06 - Q1 2020/21
,Table of Contents
Human Aspects of Innovation ................................................................................................................. 1
Week 1................................................................................................................................................. 1
Lecture 1: What is innovation?........................................................................................................ 1
Lecture 2: Creativity: the starting point of innovation .................................................................... 1
Lecture 3: Creativity in groups and teams....................................................................................... 3
Lecture 4: New insights in the componential theory of creativity and innovation......................... 5
Week 3................................................................................................................................................. 6
Lecture 5: Thinking tools and thinking creatively............................................................................ 6
Lecture 6: From creativity to innovation ......................................................................................... 7
Lecture video: Creative problem solving process ........................................................................... 8
Lecture 8: Brainstorming ................................................................................................................. 8
Week 5................................................................................................................................................. 9
Lecture 9: Complect collaboration in innovation ............................................................................ 9
Lecture 10: Team diversity ............................................................................................................ 10
Lecture 11: Facilitate diversity ...................................................................................................... 11
Week 6............................................................................................................................................... 15
Lecture 12: Creativity under the gun with time pressure ............................................................. 15
Lecture 13: The role of leadership................................................................................................ 15
Lecture video: ................................................................................................................................ 17
Week 7............................................................................................................................................... 18
Lecture video: Support mechanisms for innovation ..................................................................... 18
Lecture video: Three ingredients to ignite innovation: ................................................................. 18
Lecture 16: Leader support for innovation ................................................................................... 19
, Week 1
Lecture 1: What is innovation?
The intentional introduction and application* within a role, group or organization of ideas, products,
processes or procedures*, new to the relevant unit of adoption*, designed to significantly benefit the
individual, the group, the organization or the wider society.
*Innovation implementation
*Not only products, also other things such as the video lecture for this course.
Types of innovation:
*Company here = unit of adoption^^
Innovations could add value and benefit by:
• Stimulating economic growth
• Make our lives more pleasant
• Deal with threat to society
Lecture 2: Creativity: the starting point of innovation
Creativity is the ability to come up with ideas, problem solutions or insights that are both novel and
appropriate within a given domain.
• Appropriate, but not novel: routine, non-exceptional
• Novel, but inappropriate: useless, non-functional
Indicators of creative performance
• Fluency: the number of non-redundant ideas (many ideas)
• Originality: uncommonness (wedding dress)
• Flexibility: use of different cognitive categories (storage facility is one category for the
milk bottle)
Creativity is a necessary, yet insufficient condition for innovation:
• Without novel and useful ideas, insights and solutions, there is no innovation
• Yet, creativity does not necessarily lead to innovation and implementation in the field.
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