Identifying employees' innovation competency in organisations

International Journal of Innovation and Learning

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 164-177

  Cerinšek, Gregor ^a   Dolinsek, Slavko ^b  

^a Regional Technological Centre Zasavje   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Competency development; Creativity; Employees; Entrepreneurship; Innovation behaviour; Innovation competency; Organisational learning; Underlying characteristics

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEUR; INNOVATION; MODELING; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY;

EID: 59549104031     PISSN: 14718197     EISSN: 17408016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJIL.2009.022811     Document Type: Article

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