Behavioral Competencies for Innovation. Using Emotional Intelligence to Foster Innovation

This book explores the role of entrepreneurs and professionals who work in new product development teams, and contains the results of our research on the behavioral competencies that these roles demonstrated in pursuing innovation. This book is a journey into the as yet unexplored world of the sources of innovation, where the roles that are involved in generating innovation face new problems every day and have to adopt a complex set of behaviors to address them. For those who are directly involved in innovation processes, this book is a guide for evaluating themselves and comparing themselves to others, to better understand one’s own strengths and weaknesses, and to learn the ways to acquire certain competencies.