Enabling Innovation: Innovative Capability - German and International Views

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Innovative Capability – an Introduction to this Volume....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Management of Uncertainty – A Blind Spot in the Promotion of Innovations....Pages 17-29
Management of Uncertainty – A Contradiction in Itself?....Pages 31-33
Beyond Planning and Control. Alternative Approaches to the Management of Industrial Research and Development....Pages 35-45
The Role of Psychological Contract in Supporting Innovation Activity....Pages 47-51
New Forms of Project Organization and Project Management – Dynamic and Open....Pages 53-64
Managing in Complexity....Pages 65-67
Innovation and Learning – For a Future of Lifelong Learning....Pages 69-79
Innovation, Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning....Pages 81-83
Uncertainty in Institutional Change. Individual Resources as Potential 1 ....Pages 85-95
Finding Common Ground for Innovation....Pages 97-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
What’s Going On Out There? – Designing Work Systems for Learning in Real Life....Pages 103-116
Learning in Real Life....Pages 117-120
Job Learning in the Hands of New Actors – Challenges for the Innovative Capability of Companies....Pages 121-131
Computer-based, Individual Learning at Work: Developments and Trends....Pages 133-137
Integrating Innovation, Work, and Learning in Higher Education – The Case of Work Based Learning Frameworks....Pages 139-160
Challenges and Perspectives concerning the Integration of Vocational Learning into Higher Education....Pages 161-163
New Forms of Work Organization and the High Road to Innovation: European Experiences....Pages 165-178
Innovations Require Conducive Institutions....Pages 179-182
A Human-Centered Design for Work Places: Opportunities and Constraints....Pages 183-195
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Employee Participation as a Source of Innovation....Pages 197-199
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Social Innovation – Social Challenges and Future Research Fields....Pages 203-223
The Long Road from Awareness to Systematic Research and Funding of Social Innovations....Pages 225-231
Innovation and the Subjective Conditions for Innovative Capability....Pages 233-242
Workplace Innovation and New Industrial Relations....Pages 243-247
Innovative Capability and Productivity: What has Demographic Change to do with it?....Pages 249-266
Do Demographic Changes also Affect Our Views of Work?....Pages 267-270
Encouraging Innovations in Research and Practice: The Labor Process and Innovation....Pages 271-284
Economic Democracy as a Driver of Innovation....Pages 285-288
Fostering Innovative Capability in Germany – The Role of Interdisciplinary Research Networks....Pages 289-300
Foster Innovative Capabilities by Strengthening European Dimensions of Research Networks....Pages 301-304
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
Knowledge 2010 – Intellectual Capital as Driver of Wealth....Pages 307-330
Some Key Quizzics for the Future Intellectual Capital....Pages 331-335
Measuring Intellectual Capital....Pages 337-347
What Cannot Be Measured Can Nevertheless Be Managed 1 ....Pages 349-353
Corporate Innovative Capability between the Forces of Typical Dilemmas – Conceptual Challenges for Knowledge and Intellectual Capital Management....Pages 355-372
On the Way to a Renewed IC-Agenda....Pages 373-373
Learning by Playing: Potential of Serious Games to Increase Intellectual Capital....Pages 375-388
Serious Rigor for Serious Games....Pages 389-392
Future Center – An Unconventional Approach to Promote Intellectual Capital Potential....Pages 393-406
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
Facilitating the Future....Pages 407-413
Front Matter....Pages 415-415
Innovative Capability – Learning Capability – Transfer Capability. Promoting Innovation systematically....Pages 417-433
Occupational Safety and Health as an Innovation Driver....Pages 435-450
Innovative Capability as a Management Requirement – Which Organizational Strategies Can Promote Innovation Processes?....Pages 451-462
IT-based Interactive Research – on the Use of Social Software in Research....Pages 463-472
Back Matter....Pages 473-486