Innovation - Key concepts

The aim here is to place innovation in its historical context, so as to define it in its current sense as a process that generates value for the company, and to situate it in relation to peripheral activities such as invention, R&D, technology, technology transfer...

These peripheral activities are often lumped together with the innovation process, because we often confuse the company, i.e. the organization that will implement the innovation and benefit from the value generated (economic, environmental or societal), with inventors (or other organizations) peripheral to this innovation process, such as research centers, innovation support organizations and, more broadly, consulting providers.

These few explanations highlight a number of key concepts characteristic of innovation.