Despite literature has widely investigated the logics of ideation, at early stages of innovation and product development processes (Bjork and Magnusson, 2009; Boeddrich, 2004; Girotra et al., 2010), very few contributions deal with the very starting point of the ideation process, i.e. the initial theme...

What role can academics – especially in management research – have in management innovation ? Can they only be ex post critical analysts of the processes of inventing, experimenting, diffusing and implementing management models and techniques, or do they play a more active role ? From the...

The French National Research Agency is a public organisation devoted to competitive research projects. This funding agency is part of the incentive public policy dedicated to research. In the current context of rationalization of public funding, this organisation supports the efficiency of the...

L'objectif de cet article est, à partir de l‟étude de deux cas réels de conception de programmes de recherche au sein de l‟Agence Nationale de la Recherche, de développer une analyse sur les trois approches – jeux d‟acteurs, instrumentation, et concepts et connaissances à l‟oeuvre...

Management innovation is a specific genre within the literature on innovation. We will focus on a critical phase on managerial innovations lifecycle, sprawling between invention and diffusion. We aim at understanding the processes at work between the moment an innovation is invented within an...

Une analyse de l'impact du Web 2.0 sur les organisations, basée sur une veille, une revue de littérature académique et sur des exemples d'entreprises. Il en résulte une présentation du concept selon quatre points de vue : la plateforme, le many-to-many, le réseau communautaire et l'émergent.

A partir d'un bilan des évolutions des technologies d'information et de communication, le constat de leur rôle structurant est établi. Le commerce électronique, Internet, les stratégies liées à la notion de service autour des TIC ont un impact sur la performance des entreprises, notamment...

By 2004, the French government initiated a cluster policy called « Pôles de compétitivité ». These poles aim at improving the industrial competitiveness thanks to innovation and cooperation between local actors (Research – Industry –Education). Actors still have to think though the...