Innovations and knowledge management

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Košturiak, Ján

Affiliations: Fraunhofer IPA, Institute of Production Technology and Automation, Velky diel 3323, 01008 Zilina, Slovakia. Tel.: +421 5686426; Fax: +421 5652915; E-mail: kostur@ipaslovakia.sk

Abstract: The paper describes the development of innovations and knowledge in a company as the crucial factor of competitiveness and defines the main paradigms and their overcoming by innovations. The innovation methodology based on contradictions is introduced and the general business model and its link with knowledge development system is described. Innovation process as the corporate core process is described and the new methodology for measurement and development of human potential and knowledge is presented. The examples of knowledge competence description and knowledge account are presented.

Keywords: Innovation management, knowledge, contradiction, business systems, leadership

DOI: 10.3233/HSM-2010-0713

Journal: Human Systems Management, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 51-63, 2010