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The paper presents an up-to-date overview of this fast moving field, with a view to assisting public policy makers and business managers in designing more effective innovation processes.
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The academic literature, and business practice, reveals a shift in the way analysts understand innovation processes. This shift is not revealed as a cohesive trend, rather it comprises contributions from a wide range of academic disciplines and empirical evidence. Building on Edquist (1997) this paper ties together the diverse new ideas which stress a systems approach to successful innovation. The paper presents an up-to-date overview of this fast moving field, with a view to assisting public policy makers and business managers in designing more effective innovation processes.
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@article{Manley2026Systems,
title = {The Systems Approach to Innovation Studies},
author = {Karen Manley},
journal = {Journal of the Association for Information Systems},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.3127/ajis.v9i2.196},
url = {https://aisel.aisnet.org/ajis/vol9/iss2/11}
}
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