Introduction by the Editors
Innovation is a key goal of most organisations, and digitalisation through information and communications technology (ICT) is a key support means. The variety of ICT based innovation is striking, as is its current impact on most of the world’s gross produ
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Abstract Innovation is a key goal of most organisations, and digitalisation through information and communications technology (ICT) is a key support means. The variety of ICT based innovation is striking, as is its current impact on most of the world’s gross product. In this book we aim to map out a broad overview of ICT supported innovation on practical, evidence based context level, as well as on theoretical, and methodological levels. Consequentially, we present multi-disciplinary views on organisational innovation in enterprises and the public sector, as well as the ubiquitous, social media based user innovation. The studies included in this book will thus guide both innovation scholars as well as industrial practitioners—and innovators at large—in their present and future innovation studies and undertakings. In detail, we include innovation in knowledge work and human-computer interaction; innovation of and in socio-technical systems; and user based innovation in public services vs. innovation in social media use. Our contexts include innovative mobile solutions as well as factories of the future, with a focus on 3D and 4D printing.
L. Caporarello (&) Department of Management and Technology, Bocconi University, Via Roentgen 1, 20136 Milan, Italy e-mail: [email protected] F. Cesaroni Department of Economics, University of Messina, Piazza Pugliatti 1, 98122 Messina, Italy e-mail: [email protected] R. Giesecke School of Science, Aalto University, P.O. Box 15500, 00076 Aalto, Finland e-mail: Raphael.Giesecke@aalto.fi M. Missikoff CNR, Inst. of Sc. and Techn. of Cognition, Via S. Martino Della Battaglia 44, 00185 Rome, Italy e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 L. Caporarello et al. (eds.), Digitally Supported Innovation, Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation 18, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40265-9_1
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1 Digitalisation as Enabler for Innovating and Innovations Innovation is regarded as a key lever to relaunch the EU socio-economic system. In particular SMEs—who represent 98 % of the enterprises active in the European production system [1]—need to systematically address innovation as part of their everyday business. Likewise, large organisations, be they private or public, aim for investing in innovative activity to improve products and services in order to create, reinforce and sustain their competitive advantage. Innovation spans over a vast cultural territory—from the arts to the area of systematic, multidiscipline research and application, based on various focused disciplines: from organisation and management science to ICT, from creativity to psychology and sociology, from marketing and industrial engineering and management to education and learning. According to the Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group [2, 3], innovation activities to date need to be based on: • • • • •
integrated collaboration, co-created, shared value, cultivated innovation ecosystems, unleashed exponential technologie
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