Fueling innovation management research: Future directions and five forward-looking paths

Playing the political game of innovation: An integrative framework and future research directions

Fueling innovation management research: Future directions and five forward-looking paths

Jelena SpanjolCharles H. NobleMarkus BaerMarcel L. A. M. BogersJonathan BohlmannRicarda B. BounckenLudwig BstielerLuigi M. De LucaRosanna GarciaGerda GemserDhruv GrewalMartin HoeglSabine KuesterMinu KumarRuby LeeDominik MahrCheryl NakataAndrea OrdaniniAric RindfleischVictor P. SeidelAlina SorescuRoberto VergantiMartin Wetzels

kHUB post date: September 2024
Originally published: July 29, 2024 (PDMA JPIM • Vol. 41, Issue 5 • September 2024)
Read time: 135 minutes

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Research about innovation management explores how the future is created—who is creating it (organizations, collaborations, etc.), for what aims (customer satisfaction, market performance, etc.), and with what broader effects (social, environmental, etc.). With this extended essay, we explore the potential futures of innovation management research in three ways. First, we briefly review the history of past research agendas and priorities published in the Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM), highlighting three broad topic areas (technological, social/environmental, and organizational) that have emerged over time and their potential disruptive implications for innovation management research. Second, we describe the outcome of a gathering of leading scholars in innovation management tasked with the challenge of identifying critical research paths for our field. This collaboration resulted in five “deep dive” essays into areas ripe for innovation management research in the years ahead: liquid innovation, artificial intelligence in innovation, business model innovation, public value innovation, and responsible innovation. Third, we reflect on this expansive effort and offer a discussion of implications (tensions, challenges, and opportunities) for future innovation management scholarship.

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