Kick-starting innovation: A fast-track version of innovation scoring for start-ups

• Autor(a) principal: Rivotti, Miriam Iris Mendes
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/11654
• topic: Innovation management; Start-ups; Diagnostic tool; Innovation scoring; Gestão da inovação; Instrumento de diagnóstico

This study seeks to build a diagnostic tool for start-up innovation. It does that by adapting the framework of the Innovation Scoring, which is an instrument developed by COTEC Portugal – the country’s leading business association for the promotion of innovation. To the author’s knowledge there are no academic works to be found that have followed this approach. The relevance of this work is further enhanced by the present context of change in the business panorama, as well as the growing importance of knowledge economy. A basic question that prompts this investigation is as follows: how can an innovation assessment tool be made useful to the specific characteristics of start-up companies? This project proposes the initial steps and clues for further investigation on how to extend the approach of Innovation Scoring to start-ups. A new instrument – a Fast-track Approach for Start-ups (IS FASt) – is advanced with the purpose of diagnosing innovation capabilities in an objective and measurable manner in order to support start-ups’ innovative performance.