Innovation Fitness
(Aptitude a l’Innovation)
John Bessant
&
Allen Alexander
Innovation….
“the successful exploitation of new ideas”
Consumers
• Higher Quality &
Better Value
Goods
• More Efficient
Services (both
Private & Public)
• Higher Standard of
Living
DIUS 2008
Businesses

Sustained &
Increased Growth

Higher Profits,
Greater Return on
Investment

Employees
Engaged on New
& Interesting Work
….Is not just Invention
Innovation Fitness
• Developed through a World Bank Research
Project led by Professor Bessant – Imperial
College, London.
• Seated in research on Absorptive Capacity
“What makes an organisation innovate effectively”
Fit for Innovation
Strategy
Processes
Innovative Organisation
Linkages
Learning
Benchmarking
Questions
Allen Alexander
Senior Research Fellow in Innovation
University of Exeter
00 44 (0) 7870 237232
[email protected]