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Technovation 26 (2006) 1222–1232
ate/technovation
Innovation process. Make sense using systems thinking
Kostas GalanakisÃ
University of Warwick, Warwick Manufacturing Group, CV4 7AL Coventry, UK
Abstract
Several theories have been developed and try municate to managers how innovation occurs in a firm and which factors
affect the e of this process. These e from different perspectives that either focus on management, economic or
social sciences and create . plexity often makes managers take a decision, the e of which contradicts
their original aims. The objectives of this paper are municate innovation theory to the different actors in the system under a
common perspective and to reveal plexity of innovation systems. The new concept has at its centre the firm, which is the
generator and promoter of innovations in the market, the industrial sector and the nation. The model’s main focus is the Knowledge
Creation from public or industrial research; the New Product Design and Development process, and the Product ess in the
market. This process is affected by other internal factors of the firm as well as by the National Innovation Environment. This
innovation system has been codified, under a system dynamics approach, to create a model, the ‘Creative Factory’ that includes all
the aspects that academia, a firm or the policy making bodies need to consider around innovation activity.
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Keywords: Innovation systems; System dynamics; Creative factory
1. Introduction new product, process system or device, although the word
is used also to describe the whole process. Of course,
During the last decades, Innovation has been further inventions often take place during the innovation
identified by several nations or intra-anisa- process and still more inventions and innovations may be
tions as the major factor of economic growth and wealth made during the diffusion process’.
(EU, 1995; OECD, 1997a, b).