Third Workshops on New Generation Enterprise and Business Innovation Systems (NGEBIS 2014): Preface

摘要

Innovation is one of the major drivers for enabling European enterprises to compete in global markets, especially in a severe economic downturn. Yet innovation is an elusive term that is often used in an imprecise or generic way. If we consider widely accepted definitions, we can see that they capture only part of the essence of innovation. Furthermore, an innovation process is different from a "usual" business process we find in an enterprise that is (supposedly) well defined in its activities, committed resources, time plan, etc. Conversely, innovation is a creative activity that falls in the category of "wicked problems," i.e., problems difficult to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements.