Innovation Labs : A Taxonomy of Four Different Types
- Today's increasing pace of change and intense competition places demands on organizations to use a different approach to innovation, going beyond the incremental innovation that is typically developed within the core of the organization. As an option to escape the existing beliefs of the core organization, innovation labs are used to develop more discontinuous innovation. Despite the abundance of these so-called innovation labs in practice, researchers have devoted little effort to scrutinizing the concept and to provide managers with a framework for exploiting this form of innovation. In this paper, we aim to perform an empirical investigation and to create a consensus around the concept of innovation labs. To do so, we conducted a multiple case study in large international organizations with a total of 31 interviews of an average length of 70 minutes. We offer a framework by identifying four innovation lab types and consider when each is most appropriate. Furthermore, we highlight the importance for managers and their organizations to align the strategic intent with the innovation lab type as well as the interface between the innovation lab and the core business.
Author: | Rick J. van der Meer, Christoph J. Selig, Christoph Johann Stettina |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE/ITMC52061.2021.9570259 |
ISBN: | 978-1-6654-4963-2 |
ISSN: | 2693-8855 |
Parent Title (English): | 27th IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), 21-23 June 2021, Cardiff, UK, virtual |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Release Date: | 2022/01/08 |
Tag: | Innovation labs; Innovation strategy; Organizational design |
Page Number: | 9 |
Note: | Volltextzugriff für Angehörige der Hochschule Konstanz via Datenbank IEEE Xplore möglich |
Institutes: | Institut für Strategische Innovation und Technologiemanagement - IST |
Relevance: | Keine peer reviewed Publikation (Wissenschaftlicher Artikel und Aufsatz, Proceeding, Artikel in Tagungsband) |
Open Access?: | Nein |
Licence (German): | Urheberrechtlich geschützt |