The document discusses factors that influence innovation. It identifies six key factors: 1) knowledge generated within a company, 2) projects that mobilize knowledge across areas, 3) leadership that develops employee satisfaction and commitment, 4) removing operational bottlenecks and enabling necessary changes, 5) research and development and company clusters that drive innovation, and 6) environmental variables like events that influence companies. The focus is on creating value for the national economy through innovation over time within companies and through collaboration.

1. Projeto “Innoteach”
INNOVATION FACTORS
ESGHT,19 Outubro
Fernando Sousa – fernando.sousa@apgico.pt

2. THE CONCEPT OF INNOVATION
Creation of value
with impact on the
national economy,
over a consistent
period of time

3. 1-KNOWLEDGE
The one the company itself can generate –
SCHOOL OF KNOWLEDGE
Tacit and explicit

4. 2-PROJECTS
Mobilize knowledge and
positive emotions in a single
goal.
Providing interconnection
between areas, hierarchical
levels and the triangle suppliers
- production / research -
customers.

5. The balance between
disciplinary area
differentiation and their
integration into projects
optimizes results.
2-SHORT-TERM CROSS
PROJECTS

6. 3-MANAGEMENT
The company "does not
allow" managers to be of a
less quality, "forcing"
everyone to submit to its
dynamic.
The innovative attitude as part
of the routine work.

7. 3- LEADERSHIP
Management has to be close
to the collaborators,
developing initiatives that will
increase their satisfaction and
commitment
In order to innovate, people
need to work harder and
better.

8. 4-OPERATIONAL LEVELS (middle
managers and shop floor)
“Taking bottlenecks away".
The necessary internal
stability to make the
necessary changes is not
resistance to change but
part of the innovation
process.

9. 4- WORKERS’ COUNCILS
The existence of
representative bodies,
who negotiate directly
with management,
helps to create goals
for the organizational
base

10. 4- START UPS AND SPIN OFFS
Innovation through Start-Ups, or Spin-Offs, is
NOT a universal principle

11. 5 - R&D
Innovation achieved in
R & D centers, may
have a secondary
character as to
innovation originated in
production

12. 5 - CLUSTERS
Company
clusters as
innovation
chains

13. 6 -ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES
Major
European and
world events
and its influence
on Portuguese
companies