Theme 3. Innovation process and its stages

1. The concept of innovation process

2. The basic stages of innovation life cycle

1. The process of innovation is often compared to the process of evolution as it is fundamentally a dynamic process of improvement and adaptation which strengthens organisations’ ability to survive and thrive. Despite its complexity and unpredictability, a successful innovation process is usually seen as proactive rather than reactive, and can be said to include some or all of five key elements:

1. Recognition of a specific problem, challenge, or opportunity to be seized, in relation to the provision of humanitarian aid.

2. Invention of a creative solution, or novel idea, which helps address a problem or seize an opportunity.

3. Development of an innovation by creating practical, actionable plans and guidelines.

4. Implementation of an innovation to produce real examples of changed practice, testing the innovation to see how it compares to existing solutions.

5. Diffusion of successful innovations – taking them to scale and leading to wider adoption outside the original setting.

2. When innovation is viewed as an end-to-end process that spans the life cycle from idea to cash, a range of emerging and established technologies play a role in raising the innovation potential of the enterprise. The technologies identified in this article do two things. They systematize and structure key activities all along the process. And they reduce friction and bottlenecks at key stages in the innovation life cycle.

When innovation is viewed as an end-to-end process that spans the life cycle from idea to cash, a range of emerging and established technologies play a role in raising the innovation potential of the enterprise.

Theme 4. The basic agents of innovative activity

1. Formation of innovation units

2. Form of small innovative entrepreneurship

3. Intercompany scientific and technical cooperation in the innovation process.

4. The main forms of innovation - foreign experience

The variety of intra-and inter-firm organizational forms of innovation is one of the important features of the innovation market at the present stage.

The main part of the innovation policy of the company are research units.

Nature of the tasks, the business horizons and risk sharing innovative projects vary depending on the membership research organization to a certain hierarchical level. Central laboratories are seeking strategic technical solutions based on fundamental research. At the level of research centers developed core technologies for their member organizations. At the level of business units objectives are mainly applied nature. This product development, quality programs, engineering and technical services for enterprises and its improvement, cost reduction.

In large companies, research departments at the level of business units engaged in the problems of current business and "look forward" for about 3 years. Innovative MP may well complement the activities of the multi-level divisions of large corporations, but practice shows that such cooperation can be most effective in solving practical economic problems.

Brigade innovation and temporary creative teams are a necessary element of the organization of the innovation process. The increased pace of innovation has led to a reduction in both design-time and product life cycle.

Bootlegging is a clandestine, contraband inventions, secret work on outsourcing projects. Supporting and encouraging bootlegging promotes revitalization of artists.

Risk divisions of the companies are large corporations with a view to the development of new technologies and are small, independently managed and specialized production. Of fundamental importance is the fact that the means to create them stand out with its own budget corporate entities so-called risk financing.

Continuous process of innovation and organizational development involves the creation of new units, focused on promising products and markets. Organizational forms, reasonable in size, have the necessary mobility and susceptibility to technological progress.

Depending on the success of innovation is changing the status of the branch, his immediate supervisor and subordinates.