How to investigate corporate innovation from within? The deweyan inquiry?

Conference paper (2021)

Authors

S. Ristau Design Aesthetics -

Research Group

Design Aesthetics () (TU Delft)

Innovation management Research methodology Corporate innovation Experience-driven design research Deweyan inquiry

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Published Date

2021

Language

English

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Faculty

Industrial Design Engineering

Department

Human-Centered Design

Research Group

Design Aesthetics

Abstract

With this research note I would like to start a discussion about looking at
corporate innovation from the inside through a non-traditional lens to leverage the tacit knowledge of organizational innovation. The limits of discipline-related research strategies including innovation management itself, will be shown, as well as the indispensable need to collapse the researcher’s role with the practitioner to get access to the tacit knowledge of innovation teams. A reflection on research philosophy, approach to theory development and methods leads to the introduction of the Deweyan inquiry as a natural and highly intuitive research strategy to leverage this rich source. Examples from other disciplines will be used to discuss strength and weaknesses as well as opportunities, limitations, and implications of the Deweyan inquiry in theory and practice of a continuous innovation management.

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