ASRC and Ecole des Mines de Nancy - Editions ASRC / June 2012 - 120 p
The Association des Structures de Recherche sous Contrat (ASRC) and the Ecole des Mines de Nancy are publishing a new book in the "L'innovation en actions" collection, entitled "Innovation and Uncertainty". They return to the questions that arise on the (complex?) relationships between the Innovation and Uncertainty couple, particularly at a time when the field of possibilities and the multiplicity of scenarios are great.
The book is divided into four chapters:
* Innovation, a complex phenomenon?
* Uncertainty, generator of innovation?
* How to manage uncertainty in innovation?
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* Innovation as a risk generator?
Abstract
"Innovation as a complex process generates uncertainty... by proposing new economic, political, technological and scientific rules of the game. It creates uncertainty by opening up the future to new possibilities: new business models, new uses, new ways of understanding our world, etc. Most often, such possibilities are very difficult to anticipate and can be very far removed from established and desired forecasts. The result of innovation, especially of disruption, is uncertain. »
"Conversely, innovation feeds on uncertainty.... For example, many innovations have emerged as a result of happy encounters between needs, uses and solutions that were unexpected and difficult to imagine. If we reread our history, we realise that in the age of sawn timber production a century ago, the number of innovations was far less than it is today. The future was a priori knowable and predictable. A certain determinism prevailed. The number and frequency of innovations is now far beyond what was observed at that time. The complexity of our environment increases uncertainty and multiplies the opportunities for companies to innovate. However, uncertainty is difficult for companies to live with. It therefore seeks to reduce it while trying to preserve its capacity to innovate. »
The collection
Created in 2009, on the initiative of the ASRC and the Ecole des Mines de Nancy, "Innovation in action" brings together the cross-fertilized reflections of innovation professionals working, on different levels, to make innovation a concrete object, a source of actionable knowledge.
It is attended by companies (large groups, ETIs and SMEs), private research and technological development structures such as SRCs, public players supporting innovation and economic development, as well as academic experts and consultants in the management of innovation design processes.
The published works seek to shed different light on the same subject, to create and nurture debate on past, present and future practices in order to make our organizations more efficient in terms of innovation.
To order the book: www.innovation-en-actions.fr (Price : 15 €)
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