How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not particularly innovative, they are exceptionally skilful at imitation, at improving products that already exist. But now two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hiro Takeuchi, turn this conventional wisdom on its head: Japanese firms are successful, they contend, precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Examining case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, 3M, GE, and the U.S. Marines, this book reveals how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge and use it to produce new processes, products, and services.

The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation

Recent studies have argued a shift of thinking about engineering practice from a linear conception to a system understanding. The complexity of engineering practice has been thought of as the root of challenges for engineers. Moreover, creativity has been emphasised as one key capability that engineering students should master. This paper aims to illustrate deeply why engineering education needs to foster creative students to face the challenges of complex engineering work. So a literature review will be provided by focusing on the necessity of developing creativity in engineering education. As the literature demonstrates, this paper reveals the understanding of complexity in engineering practice and the roles of creativity in engineering practice. In addition, the barriers to creativity in current engineering education and some implications of pedagogic strategies will be discussed. So this paper contributes to rethinking the engineering profession in a social context and a link between creativity resear...

Fostering creative engineers: a key to face the complexity of engineering practice

Recent studies have emphasized group creativity as a social-cultural conception, but they lack a focus on the relationship between group creativity and knowledge creation. This paper aims to build a framework for group creativity in a learning context which includes both theoretical understanding and empirical methodology. Thus, a literature review is led by the following questions: How has creativity theory been developed from individual to group level? From a social-cultural perspective, how can group creativity, knowledge creation, and their relationship be understood? And what methods have been employed to study group creativity? As the review demonstrates, creativity theory has been driven by new insights from recent sociology studies. Three focuses have been shaped from group creativity studies: 1) group creativity in context, 2) group-level creative synergy, and 3) strategies for developing group creativity. Individual knowledge is a potential resource for group creativity, and group creativity could be a driver of knowledge creation. Empirically, group creativity can be examined through both qualitative and quantitative approaches, which also calls for a creative combination of methodologies in future studies.

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Group Creativity in Learning Context: Understanding in a Social-Cultural Framework and Methodology

This paper introduces the topic of "Collaborative Distance" within Distributed Collaboration as being an introduction to this Special Issue on Collaborative Working Environments1 CWE. In this paper, the authors discuss various related concepts, identified during an extensive literature review, on both proximity and distance in distributed collaboration. Then, a Collaborative Distance Framework CDF is proposed in deriving its four dimensions and related factors from the existing body of knowledge. The following section discusses the interest of such a CDF and introduces the articles published in this special issue. The concluding section discusses the articles' contributions, limitations and future work as well as recommendations for future research in this area.

Collaborative Distance: A Framework for Distance Factors Affecting the Performance of Distributed Collaboration

New paradigms such as Open Innovation and User Centred Design as well as User Centred Open Innovation Ecosystem promote a distributed collaboration approach However, a number of identified distances abundantly described in the literature, raise collaboration barriers which affect the effectiveness and efficiency of collaboration This paper presents the results and discusses the findings of a survey on collaboration barriers, built from a list of collaboration distance factors, which was conducted from June 2007 to June 2008 It also explores the role of Collaborative Working Environments (CWE) and collaboration tools in creating, compressing or bridging collaborative distances and raising or overcoming related collaboration barriers

Collaborative Working Environments: Distance factors affecting collaboration

Innovation Engineering: The Power of Intangible Networks: Corsi/Innovation Engineering: The Power of Intangible Networks

For many years, it was assumed that technical features were the most important ingredients to support an effective and efficient collaborative platform. Nowadays, ICT users are creating value in massively populating web applications and online role-playing games with their own activities and related data (i.e. eBay, Amazon, Linked-In, FaceBook, SecondLife, World-of-Warcraft). When looking at the global success of online social networking, online presence and other popular web applications, one may realise the crying users' need to have collaborative platform supporting also social interactions with dedicated social features instead of purely focusing on technical features. This paper presents an empirical study on the use of both shared workspace and group blogging forming a collaborative platform. This study has been conducted according to the Living Lab user-centred research approach through the use of an exploratory environment as being a real life experiment. The basic idea was to engage a community of users into the collaborative concepts experimentation during their project activities. Important issues like whether the collaborative platform has helped in somehow sharing knowledge and reaching a mutual understanding as well as overcoming various types of collaborative distance are also discussed in this paper.

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Shared workspace and group blogging experimentation through a living lab approach

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