This paper focuses on innovation teams before innovation work is begun.
The reason is that innovation teams are considered to be successful doing such work.
However, prior studies show problems in innovation-related-knowledge, -
knowledge gaps, -information and -awareness why this research aims to
understand these aspects and how they relate to newly formed innovation team as
they need to handle these aspects. Two case studies conducted during 1,5 years
show that a newly formed innovation team is in a very complicated situation where
the identified aspects relate not only to the individual members but also to the
team, its context and network within and outside the organization. Practical
implications for this research could be used when planning-, creating- and
starting up new innovation teams, helping management and team members to
understand the complexity, for which a model is developed and described.
2014.
Innovation management, innovation team, innovation group, innovation work, affordance