ISPIM Innovation

Speaker : Prof. Dr. Henning Breuer of Media University Berlin, interviewed by Lucija Barisic of ISPIM In the podcast episode "How can organizations turn sustainability strategies into daily practices?", Henning Breuer delves into key insights from literature and empirical studies on Sustainable Innovation Cultures. He explores how these cultures should be designed, developed, and nurture...

 In this episode, we host an in-depth conversation with Theresa Hannig, a German science fiction author and recent recipient of the Seraph award for her novel "Pantopia." Joining her is Henning Breuer, a professor and innovation consultant, who discusses the intersection of science fiction and sustainable business models. They delve into Theresa's novel "Pantopia," explori...

IMPACT podcast features an engaging conversation with an innovation expert from TÜV Nord Mobility. Discover how organizations can break down barriers to sustainable innovation, harness the power of ethnography, and empower employees to drive sustainability-oriented innovation. Explore the crucial role of leadership and team building in aligning personal and organizational values for a brighter, mo...

Presentation by Prof Dr Andreas Suchanek, Professor of Economic and Business Ethics at HHL in Leipzig. The IMPACT project contributes to the EU’s Agenda for a better Circular Economy which we can think of as one that prioritises sustainable growth, job creation and innovation. Visit the IMPACT project website at https://www.impact-project.site . Co-funded by the Erasmus Plus Programme. Project Num...

Established companies try to cooperate with start-ups, build their own, or try to imitate their mindsets. Do they make decisions like expert entrepreneurs? Effectuation theory describes entrepreneurial decision-making, it has been popular in entrepreneurship research for the last two decades, but still under-explored in innovation management.

This mixed-methods study, including FSQCA and NCA, of 328 respondents from coworking spaces the USA, Germany, and China identifies configurations of institutional patterns on work satisfaction associated with a sense of community, autonomy, participation, linkage multiplicity and mutual knowledge creation. High work satisfaction can occur in three different configurations related to a) agility hou...

The second episode explores the field of innovation management teaching and coaching, with the discussion of an Innovation Coaching Training Concept by the junior researchers Manuel Niever and Laura Schorb, introduced by Professor John Bessant.

The authors take a novel approach to study employees in organizations. Specifically, they sample employees not from within the organization, but via PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL NETWORKS.  The session centers around the intriguing question of how we can study innovation in new ways and especially what data we can access in new ways. We see more and more of these ways of collecting data and they bring intri...

The first episode is on Circular-Oriented Innovation for Solving Grand Environmental Challenges: A Multiple-case Study by Paavo Ritala and Jenni Kaipainen.

Despite the growing pressure to become more sustainable and the availability of managerial practices, organisations struggle with being innovative without neglecting sustainability concerns. This paper approaches this issue from two perspectives: the organisations’ culture and scepticism among managers.

This paper explores the question of how provider companies create and capture value from Big Data, drawing on a multiple-case study analysis of provider companies that offer solutions and services based on Big Data. The results illustrate a theoretical framework on value creation and capture by relying on Big Data and identifying two main innovation service strategies based on Big Data used by pro...

Data-driven design methods are promising when it happens to broaden external stimuli, help during the design ideation phases. Prof. Jianxi Luo and his colleagues developed a knowledge-based expert system that provides design stimuli across the semantic, document and field levels at the same time and helps with concept generation. During the session, we will explore how this tool can be applied for...

This paper proposes a unifying Open Innovation in Science (OIS) Research Framework, which captures the antecedents, contingencies, and consequences of open and collaborative practices along the entire process of generating and disseminating scientific insights and translating them into innovation. To conceptualise the framework, we employed a collaborative approach involving 47 scholars from multi...

The efforts of the research institute of a major Canadian energy company to provide training for innovation and creativity to initiate a radical innovation capability is studied. We rely on a longitudinal study over the span of 18 months, where we observed 128 hours of training and conducted 70 semi‐structured interviews with a sample of 40 researchers.

Case study is a widely adopted method in innovation management. However, there is a great diversity in the transparency and rigor in how case studies are conducted, downplaying their potential contribution to the cumulative scholarly knowledge. How can we uplift case studies as the method of choice for rigorous and impactful scholarship?