Innovation Management Models in the Metallurgical Sector

Abstract

The innovation management models refer to the discipline of controlling and coordinating the intentional introduction and application within a job, work team or organization, of ideas, processes, products or procedures which are new to that job, work team or organization and which are designed to benefit the job, the work team or the organization. We identified three innovation management models (blue ocean, four systems, one-off) and a hundred and eighty companies from the metallurgical sector which were divided into three groups of sixty. Every group of companies applies a different innovation management model and our study tries to verify whether or not there is a significant relationship between the model used and the number of innovative projects generated.

Keywords: Blue ocean, Innovation, Innovation management model, Red ocean, Utility map.