Innovation as a Knowledge-Based Outcome

By Eric Quintane, R. Mitch Casselman, Bjoern Sebastian Reiche, Petra A. Nylund. Journal of Knowledge Management, 2011

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide clarity to the concept of innovation and its various definitions.Design/methodology/approachThe article reviews the innovation literature and proposes that innovation has been conceptualized either from a process or from an outcome perspective. Also, the authors show that there is a substantive difference between innovation seen in the traditional innovation literature and innovation as conceived in the knowledge management literature.FindingsThe paper proposes a general framework to categorize the existing views of innovation and show that innovation as an outcome has not been clearly defined from a knowledge perspective. To address this gap, the authors develop a new definition of an innovation outcome based on knowledge elements.Research limitations/implicationsThe research lays the groundwork for more comprehensive methods of measuring innovation and innovativeness, which is particularly useful for the study of service innovation.Practical implicationsThe framework and definition expand the ability of managers to measure and understand the key factors of innovation.Originality/valueThe research contributes to the literature by developing a comprehensive knowledge‐based, outcome‐oriented definition of innovation.

Subfields: Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Innovation performance: The effect of knowledge-based dynamic capabilities in cross-country innovation ecosystems (2021, positive): “As a focal part of the innovation process (Nonaka et al. 2014; Quintane et al. 2011), thriving innovation ecosystems are characterized by knowledge creation (Bramwell et al. 2012).”
Managerial practices and operative directions of knowledge management within inter-firm networks: a global view (2014, background): “Knowledge management plays a crucial role in the development of sustainable competitive advantage through innovation whether in products or services (Quintane et al., 2011).”
The Transformation of the Innovation Process: How Digital Tools are Changing Work, Collaboration, and Organizations in New Product Development* (2020, positive): “The KBV argues that knowledge creation, exchange, and recombination are essential to innovation efforts (Galunic and Rodan, 1998; Henderson and Clark, 1990; Quintane, Mitch Casselman, Sebastian Reiche, and Nylund, 2011).”