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What does it mean to innovate? What skills are needed? What thought processes are involved? Answers to these questions can be found in the real-life stories of Agents of Innovation. Louis Jacques Filion and chapter co-authors Rico J. Baldegger, Candido Borges, Fernando Dolabela, Joëlle Hafsi and Francine Richer, present six fascinating case histories of three different types of agents of innovation: entrepreneurs, who create new products or services, facilitators, or process innovators, who help entrepreneurs to develop their enterprises, and intrapreneurs, who innovate within the organizations that employ them. In the second part of Agents of Innovation, a set of exercises guide readers as they develop their own innovative thinking process. Valuable to researchers, students, and those about to branch out into the world of business, Agents of Innovation informs many different disciplines, and in particular strategy – the sister discipline of entrepreneurship as far as the implementation of innovation is concerned.

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Author:   Louis Jacques Filion (HEC Montreal, Canada)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.479kg
ISBN:  

9781837970131

ISBN 10:   1837970130
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   13 December 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword; Yves Pigneur Section 1. Entrepreneurs Chapter 1. Coco Chanel: Building an Empire - Chanel in Three Acts; Francine Richer and Louis Jacques Filion Chapter 2. Alain Bouchard, Couche-Tard/ Circle K, Conquering the World of Convenience Stores; Joëlle Hafsi and Louis Jacques Filion Section 2. Facilitators Chapter 3. Réal Plourde, Couche-Tard/Circle K and Entrepreneurial Facilitation; Joëlle Hafsi and Louis Jacques Filion Chapter 4. From Softimage to Microsoft and then to Inno-Centre: Pierre Nelis and Entrepreneurial Facilitation; Joëlle Hafsi and Louis Jacques Filion Section 3. Intrapreneurs Chapter 5. Elmar Mock, From the Swatch to Creaholic: Inventor, Intrapreneur and Entrepreneur; Louis Jacques Filion and Rico J. Baldegger Chapter 6. Emerson de Almeida and the Creation of Fundação Dom Cabral: Leading a Brazilian Revolution in Executive Education; Cândido Borges, Fernando Dolabela, and Louis Jacques Filion Section 4 Chapter 7. Lessons for Innovationists and Aspiring Agents of Innovation; Louis Jacques Filion

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Louis Jacques Filion is Emeritus Professor at HEC Montréal, Canada, where he directed the Rogers J.-A.-Bombardier Chair of Entrepreneurship from 1995 to 2016. He has been a speaker at many of the best-known institutions and conferences and over the decades has studied hundreds of agents of innovation throughout the world. In this book, he suggests that the field of entrepreneurship should be extended to include not only entrepreneurs but also facilitators and intrapreneurs.

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