Systemic Innovation

General Introduction: Systemic Innovations and Transformation of Organizational Models

Innovation is at the heart of the dynamic growth model based on uncertainty, risk and profit. In the current context of crisis and globalization, entrepreneurs, companies and public institutions for economic action are challenged by the need to renew technologies, organizational patterns and production and consumption modes as quickly as possible.

Whether gradual or radical, innovation is embedded in a complex process characterized by a large amount of feedback and interaction. The innovative organization is a dynamic system composed of specific and diversified competencies. By acquiring, combining and mobilizing these competencies, the innovation actor (entrepreneur or organization) can create technological resources and change the relationships it maintains with its environment. This explains the importance of design, application and development management in the implementation of an innovation process.

An innovation system mobilizes a set of knowledge and skills that are generated by learning processes and embedded in its memory. This knowledge must be enriched to be valued through the development, use and commercial launch of new goods, services and technologies. The survival of the system depends on its ability to innovate, which enables it to face external aggression, to transform itself and to endure. External stimuli (competition, product substitutability, consumer incentives, innovation ...