Projects / Programmes
Social values and postmodern age
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 5.02.01 |
Social sciences |
Economics |
Economy sciences |
| Code |
Science |
Field |
| S190 |
Social sciences |
Management of enterprises |
equasion of preconditions of innovation, European Union’s Green Paper on Innovation, innovation, innovative business, innovative culture, innovative society, ISO 9000, laggging of the noninnovative communities, Law of Requisite Holism, systems thinking, total quality.
Researchers (13)
Organisations (1)
Abstract
Our survey in 1997 demonstrated that the awareness that excellent quality is a precondition for success in the global world wide market has come through quite well in Slovenia. Less so has the awareness that such requirements of customers cannot be met if organisations do not proced from their given level of quality toward an excellent one by means of continuous innovation. The analysis conducted in 1998 in the form of a conference on Slovenian support to making of inventions and innovations which gathered 50 authors, certified our hypothesis that this support is - in terms of qualitity - quite well developed and differentiated, but the actual needs of Slovenia and especially of her economy would require this support to be much more active and enhancing.
Our comparative analysis which was enabled especially by our book published in USA with 40 cauthors of R. Dyck and M. Muleja (1998), lets us find that such a passive support is enough and suitable only in conditions in which the most advanced 20% of the world population are living. The remaining 80% or four fifths of the world population (incl. Slovenia), if employing only such a passive support to their own innovation efforts, allow the span of richness to rapidly grow to theit own detriment and to convert them in neocolonies (or to keep them in such a position). Such dangerous tendencies could successfully be tourned around in cases in which a crucial impact of persons and conditions came to power who actually met all conditions in our “equasion of conditions of innovation” at the same time. Their result was seen in market and economic results boyond average, high creditworthiness of organisations, persons and countries in international comparisons etc. These results are backed by making of a societal and organisational culture, climate and personality very supportive of creativity, especially innovation, and closely interlinked with attainment of the requisite holism of thinking and working which is based on application of (applied and informal) systems thinking. That is why we devoted our effort to economic and organisational measures strengthening such attributes. By involvement of graduate students of innovation we surveyed - after the anquette in 1987 - close to fifty randomly chosen organisations, mostly enterprises, more profoundly. Those surveys als certified the above findings and demonstrated that the actual situation in Slovenia differes a lot from the necessary one. We also make suggestions in which direction should the research continue and bring Slovenia closer to European Union in terms of innovation. (Customers, of course, do not buy innovation, but excellent quality, which in turn cannot be attained without permanent innovation.)
