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Question of maintaining innovative activities: proposing a cognitive grid of creativity

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  • Cecile Ayerbe
  • Cecile Fonrouge

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This paper examines the way in which existing writings view the extension between innovations. It proposes a cognitive grid as a support for innovative activity which connects one innovation to another, based on the different possible ways of reasoning (analogical, inductive and deductive). The grid is applied to nine transitions of innovations for five small to medium-sized firms. The analogical method operates by transposing technology to another sector, the deductive method uses deductions from new interpretations of the environment and the inductive method infers from the second innovation of specific cases which are not tackled by the first one. It is a complementary tool of creativity aiming to maintain innovative activity: a tool which oversteps and integrates previous management techniques which, as we see it, presently confine themselves to being individual organisational or technological commands.

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  • Cecile Ayerbe & Cecile Fonrouge, 2004. "Question of maintaining innovative activities: proposing a cognitive grid of creativity," International Journal of Management and Decision Making, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 5(4), pages 373-391.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijmdma:v:5:y:2004:i:4:p:373-391
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    1. Yassine Mehros & Abdelaziz Elabjani, 2019. "Smes Performance: Analysis Of The Innovation Role," Economic Archive, D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics, Svishtov, Bulgaria, issue 4 Year 20, pages 61-74.

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