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Employee-Driven Innovation: Operating in a Chiaroscuro

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  • Ann-Charlotte Teglborg
  • Renaud Redien-Collot
  • Maria Bonnafous-Boucher
  • Céline Viala

Abstract

As of 2010, six of the ten most innovative companies in the world were American, two were Japanese and one was Korean. None were European. Three years before, in 2007, the situation in the Old World had been hardly any brighter; according to the European Innovation Scoreboard, the innovation index stood at 0.73 in Sweden, 0.59 in Germany and 0.47 in France. In the same year, the World Intellectual Property Organization listed the number of patents lodged by country. Sweden’s 1,287, Germany’s 17,739 and France’s 12,112 were dwarfed by the USA’s 157,283 and Japan’s 164,954. It seems undeniable that many Western countries are still a long way behind and that closing the innovation gap remains a kind of quest for the Holy Grail in terms of competitiveness and employment. However, on closer inspection, the keys to Paradise are more like a safety device both for national economies and for the men and women who implement innovations on a day-to-day level.

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  • Ann-Charlotte Teglborg & Renaud Redien-Collot & Maria Bonnafous-Boucher & Céline Viala, 2012. "Employee-Driven Innovation: Operating in a Chiaroscuro," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Steen Høyrup & Maria Bonnafous-Boucher & Cathrine Hasse & Maja Lotz & Kirsten Møller (ed.), Employee-Driven Innovation, chapter 2, pages 34-56, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-01476-4_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137014764_2
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    1. Lia Tirabeni & Klas Eric Soderquist, 2019. "Connecting the Dots: Framing Employee-Driven Innovation in Open Innovation Contexts," International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 16(04), pages 1-27, June.

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