Developing strategic innovation capability of enterprises Theoretical and methodological outlines of intervention

摘要

The research focuses on the question of the theoretical and methodological basis on which it is possible and sensible to approach and analyse the potentials and limitations of innovation and the development of the innovation capability - in the specific context of communities of practice and situated action and decision-making. What kind of basic theoretical assumptions, basic concepts and methodological solutions are possible and sensible as a starting point in analysing the potentials and limitations of innovation and the development of innovation capability in the specific context of practical activities and decision-making? There is no ready-made, self-evident, integrating, systemic approach or theory to serve and direct the development of the innovation capability of enterprises. For this very reason, it was necessary to set, define and construct the subject, problem and context of research rather from the point of view of practice and cooperative inquiry - critically assessing, utilising and applying existing innovation research and the theory and strategic management concepts of the enterprise. Innovation activities and development of the innovation capability of enterprises are not necessarily a priori a self-evident and inherently valuable goal. Underlying this notion is the finding that the consequences of an innovation activity and innovation may also be harmful or destructive. The development of the innovation capability of an enterprise - and innovation activity as a rule - is a contradictory, paradoxical and hence a discursive process. Schumpeter once discerned the paradox of innovation. He called the double dynamics of innovation as a process of "creative destruction". Innovation means creation of new combinations of methods and machines and at the same time radical devaluation of produced values.