2. CONTENTS
5-6 Definitions
7-9 Drivers of innovation
10-11 Major categories of innovation
12-13 Skills to lead innovation
14-15 An innovative culture
16-17 Innovation in multi-invention contexts
18-19 Drill
20-21 Members of a team and innovation
22-23 Mediating team processes
24-25 Practices which set innovative organizations apart
26-27 High-performing organizations and innovation
28-30 In-hand innovation
31-32 Managing empirical innovation at J & J
33-34 Business innovation indicators in Canada
35-36 Performance indicators to measure motivation in Canada
37-38 Measurable elements of GDP per capita
39-41 How does Canada compare?
42-43 Innovation pathways in Canada
44-45 AIMS for innovation in Canada
46-47 Comparing Canada to the US
48 Case studies
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4. Page 4
Introduction to Toronto Training
and HR
Toronto Training and HR is a specialist training and
human resources consultancy headed by Timothy Holden
10 years in banking
10 years in training and human resources
Freelance practitioner since 2006
The core services provided by Toronto Training and HR
are:
Training event design
Training event delivery
Reducing costs, saving time plus improving
employee engagement and morale
Services for job seekers
15. An innovative culture
• Leaders visibly promote new ideas
from all areas of the organization
• Entrepreneurial and risk-taking
behaviors are encouraged
• Growth as a result of innovation is
considered as important a goal as
cost reduction
• Learning from mistakes is
important, with toleration for
failure
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25. Practices which set innovative
organizations apart
• They have diverse teams
• The work best without barriers
• They encourage employees to
share and nurture their passions at
work-within reason
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27. High-performing organizations and
innovation
• Sources of innovation
• Recognition of innovation as a
competency
• Learning strategies that foster
innovation
• Roadblocks that inhibit innovation
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29. In-hand innovation 1 of 2
• Innovations that were previously
developed but never launched,
owing to circumstances that may
have changed
• Features of past products that may
meet newly critical customer needs
• Existing offerings that should be
repositioned, because customers
like them for unforeseen reasons
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30. In-hand innovation 2 of 2
• Elements of bundled offerings that
could stand alone
• New combinations of elements, in
which the bundled value to
customers is greater than the sum
of the parts
• Overdesigned offerings that could
be pared down for less-demanding
customer segments
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34. Business innovation indicators in
Canada
• Expenditure on research &
development, as a % of GDP
• Direct and indirect government
funding of business research &
development, as a % of GDP
• Investment in machinery and
equipment, as a % of GDP
• Venture capital, relative to GDP
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38. Measurable elements of GDP per
capita
• Profile
• Utilization
• Intensity
• Productivity-industry mix, cluster
mix, cluster effectiveness,
urbanization, education, capital
investment and productivity
residual
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40. How does Canada compare? 1 of 2
• Higher education performance of R&D
• Intensity of R&D
• R&D share of value added in industry
• Distribution of business performance
by R&D by revenue size of
organization
• ICT capital intensity
• IT services intensity
• Cross-border trademarks per million
population
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41. How does Canada compare? 2 of 2
• Graduation rates from tertiary
education
• Graduates of doctoral (advanced
research) programs per million of
population
• Total number of degrees granted in
doctoral (advanced research)
programs
• Private internal rate of return for an
individual obtaining tertiary
education as part of initial
education
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47. Comparing Canada to the US
• GDP per capita
• Prosperity gap
• Labour effort
• Productivity
• Real GDP annualized quarterly
growth rate
• Participation rates
• Unemployment rates
• Venture capital
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