New report identifies drivers of innovation

“Renee Hopkins Callahan, editor of the Corante Innovation Hub, and two of her coworkers have written a very interesting white paper entitled, “What Drives Innovation? A Heuristic Framework for Corporate Innovation.” It attempts to identify common innovation drivers that can be linked to the successes and failures of corporate innovation initiatives.

To conduct this research, Callahan, Gwen Smith Ishmael and Leyla Namiranian conducted interviews with executives from across a wide range of industries about recent innovation projects at their organizations. What they discovered was the outcome of these initiatives was not based on specific drivers, but rather that projects were often derailed because of oversights at the front end of the projects, including issues such as: …”