Collaborative Innovation Networks

Collaborative innovation networks are cyberteams of motivated individuals, and are self-organizing emergent social systems with the potential to promote health, happiness and individual growth in real-world work settings.

This book describes how to identify and nurture collaborative innovation networks in order to shape the future working environment and pave the way for health and happiness, and how to develop future technologies to promote economic development, social innovation and entrepreneurship. The expert contributions and case studies presented also offer insights into how large corporations can creatively generate solutions to real-world problems by means of self-organizing mechanisms, while simultaneously promoting the well-being of individual workers. The book also discusses how such networks can benefit startups, offering new self-organizing forms of leadership in which all stakeholders are encouraged to collaborate in the development of new products.

Part I.- Building A Shared Present and Future: Learnings from Henry Ford and Albert Kahn’s Co-Wuity Collaborative Innovation Network on the Moving Assembly Line and Mass Production.- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who is Leaving of Them All - Predictions for Employee Turnover with Gated Recurrent Neural Networks.- Education and Technology as Levers for Sustainable Change: A New Framework of Interaction between Business and Environment.- Part II.- The Bezos-Gate: Exploring the Online Content of the Washington Post.- Identifying Tribes on Twitter through Shared Context.- Part III.- Social Media Teams of Hospitals as Mediators in Digital Health Ecosystems.- Promoting Holistic Care by Advancing Cultural Competence of Nursing Students in Mainland China.- Building Shared Environmental Governance for the Future: The Case of a Community COIN.- Effects of Innovation Efficiency and Knowledge on Industry-University Collaboration: An evolutionary Game perspective.- Part IV.- Measuring Human-Animal-Interaction with Smartwatches – An Initial Experiment.- Show me your moves: Analyzing body signals to predict creativity of knowledge workers.- Promoting and Supporting Biodiversity Conservation Activities with the Pattern Language Approach: A Pattern Language for Collaborative Activities for Biodiversity Conservation.- “Twelve-Tone Music Reloaded”: 12 Lessons in Rotating Leadership and Organizational Development from Jazz.