What is the profile to excel and lead in an open innovation environment, within and across organizational boundaries? What are the organizational ingredients and ways contributing to the creation of the right corporate open innovation environment and culture, within and across organizational boundaries? What is the role of organizational culture as a catalyst for adopting open innovation practices? What kinds of educational and training curricula for open innovation need to be developed and put in place? By unveiling the peculiarities of the dynamic interplay between the individual and organizational spectrums, this volume, seeks to provide relevant answers to these questions, among others. Readers are invited to embark on a fascinating and challenging journey towards one of the darkest of sides and mysteries of open innovation: the human element.
Open Innovation: Unveiling the Power of the Human Element brings together the latest thinking from members of the academic community, industry leaders and practitioners, along with, policy-makers. By adopting a variety of research methods, this volume provides relevant up-to-speed but at the same time down-to-earth invaluable insights, foresights and solutions in relation to the role and the positioning of the human element within the participatory and connection-driven DNA of the open innovation paradigm.
Dr Anne-Laure Mention holds an expert position at Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). Until end of 2014, she was leading a research unit focusing on innovation economics and management within the Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg. She is actively involved in research projects, mainly focusing on innovation and performance measurement and management in the financial and business to business services industries. She is also currently appointed as Expert to the High Committee for the Financial Industry in Luxembourg, in the context of the FinTech initiative. She also has a Visiting Professorship position in University of Liége, Belgium and is the Deputy Director of the Centre d'Evaluation de la Performance des Entreprises.
Her research interests mainly concentrate on open and collaborative innovation, intellectual capital measurement and management, innovation and technology management, with a focus on financial and business-to-business services industries. She has published in leading academic journals and has been a Visiting Researcher at McGill University, Canada, at Ferrara University, Italy and at Singapore Management University. She received two prestigious IBM Faculty Awards for her works in the field of Open Innovation in services, is a founding member of WICI, and the Deputy Head of the ISPIM Advisory Board. She is one of the founding editors of the open access, multidisciplinary Journal of Innovation Management. She is regularly involved as Jury Member in international competitions revolving around financial innovation and has gained practical experience in the consulting and venture capital industries.
She is the co-editor of the book entitled "Innovation in Financial Services: A Dual Ambiguity", published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Dimitrios Salampasis (PhD) is an internationally-educated researcher and trained Business Management Advisor and Research Analyst professional. Furthermore, he is a visiting senior researcher at INESC TEC in Porto Portugal. Dimitrios obtained his PhD in Industrial Engineering, Business and Management from the Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland. Moreover, he holds two Master's Degrees in Innovation and Entrepreneurship and EU Studies from the University of Luxembourg and the Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences respectively. Dimitrios has 10+ years of international professional working experience in the private, public and NGO sectors and has served in different functions and corporate levels. He has published in international peer-reviewed academic journals and books and his work has been presented in major international conferences and invited lectures around the world. His research interests and advisory activities revolve around sustainable business and strategic solutions focusing on the organisational (design and readiness), human (talent for innovation, training, learning and development), technological (business model innovation) and societal (models for linking business with society) sides of innovation in services, with a primary focus on financial services (innovative financial tools-sustainable and responsible investing) and key transformational initiatives in the airline industry business model innovation. In addition he is actively involved in consulting activities on emerging markets and emerging market investing by assisting companies in developing long-term strategic focus and market business strategies. He is also an active volunteer and youth mentor and trainer on education for sustainable peace related matters and has participated in numerous international programmes, workshops and conventions as a presenter, facilitator and rapporteur.
