Creativity and entrepreneurship, like innovation, have been recognized as important contributors to a nation’s economic … growth. Creativity plays an important role in the fuzzy front end of a firm’s innovation process and also in corporate … venturing processes, but the relationship between creativity and entrepreneurship to a large extent has not explicitly been …

been an associated increase in the role of knowledge and the importance of product and process innovation. A set of … reference to available data and international research evidence on employment generation, conditions of work and innovation in …

Michelin is discussed. The influence of prior training with systematic problem solving method TRIZ, on the innovation team, is … assessed using a questionnaire. The questionnaire is based on a company innovation audit model proposed by Mann and influenced … by the creativity model of Baille. Results are discussed which show significant innovation development when using TRIZ …

This paper examines the linkages between diversity management (DM), innovation and high performance in social … discussions of innovation through networked diversity practices; reconciliation; and funding options. The paper draws upon a UK … options for DM in the interests of maximization of innovation and business performance. We contend that further research is …

invigorate innovation based growth. We see the creative economy as suffused with all industry rather than as a sector in its own … starting point is that modern economies depend on innovation, and we see the core of innovation as new knowledge of some kind …. We commence with some observations about innovation. …

that innovation results from the blending of two processes, invention and entrepreneurship, and that viable innovation …The paper argues that innovation is the combination of an inventive process and an entrepreneurial process to create … concentrated on summarising the entrepreneurial process and its importance to innovation policy and avoids any detailed elaboration …