Bridging the Innovation Gap, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Blueprint for the Innovative Enterprise
Management for Professionals Series

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Language: English

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This book offers fresh insights into innovation management and its prerequisites. Based on these insights, the authors present a new and proven innovation system, which is being used in practice and has the potential to significantly increase the ability of enterprises to innovate. Starting with the innovation dilemma that enterprises face, the book analyses the concept of innovation as it is (mis)understood in practice, and identifies the missing element in current innovation theories - the innovation gap. Further, it asks whether today's enterprises are well suited for innovation and then describes a solution to the problems identified. The book also introduces a new and important element of the revised innovation process called ?Exploration?. From leadership issues to building a strong innovation model, it offers state-of-the-art knowledge, which can significantly boost the chances of innovation succeeding in enterprises.


Introduction.- The Problem: Innovation: An Abiding Enigma.- The Missing Link: The Innovation Gap.- "Good Management" in Enterprises Today May Be Blocking Innovation.- The Solution: The Organizational Structure - The Innovative Enterprise.- Exploration.- Managing Innovators.- Exploration and Strategy.- Conclusions and Rules Drawn from Part II.- The Implementation: Rules for Systematic Innovation - The Bern Innovation Model.- Final Remarks.- The Research Method.
Daniel Huber is the Director of the Management Center at Bern University of Applied Sciences, Professor of Innovation Management and of the University’s Executive MBA program in Innovation Management. Prof. Huber has directed the development of the program in innovation since 2008. He graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich with an advanced degree in Engineering and completed an advanced degree in Management at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne. During his work spanning 20 years at Swisscom’s innovation division, he gained an in-depth understanding of innovation as it is practiced in large enterprises. He has many years of experience in various areas of innovation management. Working together with two other managers, he was responsible for setting up Swisscom Innovations, an innovation unit with around 180 employees. Prof. Huber is a member of the Board of Directors of swissfuture, a Swiss association of futurologists.

Heiner Kaufmann is a Professor of Business Creation at the Management Center of Bern University of Applied Sciences and Director of the University’s Executive MBA program in Innovative Business Creation. He completed academic programs at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Lausanne and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, USA. Prof. Kaufmann worked for almost twenty years as a manager and project manager in a number of high-tech companies, particularly in the areas of innovation and research & development. He is the founder of a startup enterprise and an innovation consulting company that was later acquired by the innovation factory Creaholic SA in 2012. In recent years, Heiner Kaufmann succeeded in developing a new learning and teaching concept for business conception.

Martin Steinmann has been a successful Business Enabler in the area of information and communications technology (

Presents a completed and seamless end-to-end innovation process, ready for implementation

Establishes a model that allows companies to organize innovative activities and prepare for new challenges

Lays out the rules on how to bridge the innovation gap to enable systematic innovation in practice

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras