Communities of Innovation How Organizations Harness Collective Creativity and Build Resilience

This volume contains 15 chapters that describe the role played by communities in innovation and how organizations can benefit from it. Business, management, and other specialists mainly from Europe discuss the idea of communities and their role in the dynamics of innovation; communities of innovation in Ubisoft, Salomon, Schneider Electric, SEB, and Schmidt Groupe; the role of communities in the industrial ecosystems of multiple organizations, particularly Open Lab Michelin and the Renault community; the role of the middleground as an intermediary platform for mobilizing different types of communities, including the community of players of the online video game Trackmania, how Hacking Health mobilizes a community of innovation through events, and how the South African organization Afrikaner contributes to plastic and ocular surgery in India; the role of communities as key coordinating modes to develop resilience and creativity when facing a crisis, with case studies of the Lego Group and Ankama and the COVID-19 pandemic; and an operational approach managers can use to collaborate with innovation communities.