Infusing Innovation Into Organizations

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All Challenges—And Innovations—Great and Small

Elinor Fong

CONTENTS

Challenges

Revolutionary Innovation

Disruptive Innovation

Disruption and Timing

Grand Challenges

Wicked Problems

Formal Programs Linking Stakeholders and Priorities

Ambitious Goals—National Priorities—Stakeholder Inputs

Private Industry Driven by Customer and Product

Summary

Acknowledgment

References

Challenges

Research and development organizations need to enable innovation. But not all innovation is the same. Innovation can be evolutionary or revolutionary; it can be incremental or radical. This chapter will describe the need and importance of the various approaches to innovation while also attempting to further define and illustrate the terms associated with ...