Behavioral Competencies for Innovation

This book represents the first comprehensive investigation of the role of emotional intelligence in promoting innovation in the organizational context. Offering emerging insights into the human side of innovation. This book highlights how it has become strategically important for firm innovativeness to identify and evaluate those behavioral competencies that enable entrepreneurs and professionals to generate different types of innovation (product, process, marketing, organizational and strategic innovation). It illustrates a classification of behavioral competencies for innovation and provides empirical evidence collected through the application of the competency-based methodology to a sample of entrepreneurs and new product development teams. This book provides practical policy and managerial implications on how to develop and evaluate behavioral competencies in the higher education and organizational settings in order to foster individual innovation capacity.

Addresses a timely and neglected topic: the role of 'soft skills' in promoting the innovation processes in firms Provides empirical cases of how managers and entrepreneurs in small to medium sized firms implement successful innovations by deploying their portfolio of behavioral competencies

Autorentext

Sara Bonesso is Associate Professor of Business Organization and Human Resources Management at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Management. She is also one of the founders and the Vice-Director of the Ca' Foscari Competency Centre.

Laura Cortellazzo is Post Doc Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Business Organization and Human Resources Management at the Cà Foscari University, Department of Management.

Fabrizio Gerli is Associate Professor of Business Organization and Human Resources Management at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Management. He is also one of the founders and the Director of the Ca' Foscari Competency Centre.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Current Trends in Innovation Management and the Role of Human Capital .- Chapter 2. The Intangible Human Side of Innovation: A Competency Based View.- Chapter 3. Entrepreneurs and Innovation: Mobilizing Behavioral Competencies in Different Types of Innovation Processes.- Chapter 4. Behavioral Competencies in New Product Development Teams.- Chapter 5. Managing Innovation Through a Competency-Based Approach.