This book represents the first comprehensive investigation of the role of emotional intelligence in promoting innovation in the organizational context. Offering emerging insights into the human side of innovation. This book highlights how it has become strategically important for firm innovativeness to identify and evaluate those behavioral competencies that enable entrepreneurs and professionals to generate different types of innovation (product, process, marketing, organizational and strategic innovation). It illustrates a classification of behavioral competencies for innovation and provides empirical evidence collected through the application of the competency-based methodology to a sample of entrepreneurs and new product development teams. This book provides practical policy and managerial implications on how to develop and evaluate behavioral competencies in the higher education and organizational settings in order to foster individual innovation capacity.

Chapter 1. Current Trends in Innovation Management and the Role of Human Capital

Chapter 2. The Intangible Human Side of Innovation: A Competency Based View
Chapter 3. Entrepreneurs and Innovation: Mobilizing Behavioral Competencies in Different Types of Innovation Processes
Chapter 4. Behavioral Competencies in New Product Development Teams
Chapter 5. Managing Innovation Through a Competency-Based Approach.

ISBN	978-3-030-40733-9
Artikelnummer	9783030407339
Medientyp	Buch
Auflage	1st ed. 2020
Copyrightjahr	2020
Verlag	Springer, Berlin
Umfang	XXI, 81 Seiten
Abbildungen	XXI, 81 p. 4 illus.
Sprache	Englisch