TY - JOUR T1 - Editorial: Managing Innovation (April 2016) JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2016 A1 - Chris McPhee KW - creativity KW - cybersecurity KW - entrepreneurship KW - frugal innovation KW - innovation KW - managing innovation KW - national culture KW - Open innovation KW - projects KW - startups PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 6 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/976 IS - 4 U1 - Technology Innovation Management Review Chris McPhee is Editor-in-Chief of the Technology Innovation Management Review. Chris holds an MASc degree in Technology Innovation Management from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and BScH and MSc degrees in Biology from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. He has over 15 years of management, design, and content-development experience in Canada and Scotland, primarily in the science, health, and education sectors. As an advisor and editor, he helps entrepreneurs, executives, and researchers develop and express their ideas. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Why National Culture Should Be at the Heart of Innovation Management JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tony Smale KW - creativity KW - implementation KW - initiation KW - innovation KW - national culture AB - Over a period of decades, a substantial body of knowledge has accumulated that correlates national culture and socially and economically important behaviour, including innovation practice. National culture is an interconnected web of mental models that is shared by national groups and transcends the individual. It is highly influential in moderating the cognition and behaviour of groups and individuals. Different resources, including cognition and behaviour, are required at the different stages of the innovation process, and the context, including national culture (within which innovation is practiced), is an important consideration in designing strategy. Because innovation is a psychological and social process, understanding how national culture moderates that cognition and behaviour within the different stages of the innovation process and how the wider innovation ecosystem impacts innovation practice is central to understanding, strategizing and managing the innovation process. However, there has been limited application of this knowledge by practitioners. Therefore, this article examines the importance of national culture from a practitioner perspective, distilling the managerial implications and providing a list of questions that serve as a checklist to enable practitioners to analyze the implications of their own national and organizational context. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 6 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/978 IS - 4 U1 - Forté Management Tony Smale is a Principal Management Consultant with Forté Management, an independent thinking New Zealand business, consulting, coaching, and training practice. Tony began life as a laboratory scientist and manager. He holds an MBA from Henley Business School at the University of Reading, United Kingdom, and is accredited as an Economic Development Professional. Tony’s MBA dissertation was entitled The Impact of National Culture on New Zealand’s Innovation Outcomes. Since then, he has complemented that work by nearly a decade exposing and testing the arguments in the dissertation with innovation, management, and economic development professionals across many nations and especially working with them to explain and reconcile the dilemmas and conflicts that they encounter in their work and personal lives, both living and working in their home countries and especially as immigrants in foreign cultures. He is an experienced speaker and has completed a number of international engagements including at the UNFCCC, the OECD LEED Forum, and subsequently serving on an OECD Expert Panel. ER -