Title: Talent development for the knowledge economy

Authors: William Swart; Ken MacLeod; Rick Fernandez

Addresses: Thomas D. Arthur Graduate School of Business, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA ' Thomas D. Arthur Graduate School of Business, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA ' President 20-20 Innovation, Inc., Chairman US Technical Advisory Group, TC 279, ISO 56000 Innovation Management System, Tamarac, FL 33321, USA

Abstract: The world's economies are attempting to transform themselves to have a greater focus on developing knowledge as a commodity through innovation. Innovation starts with a creative activity that yields an invention but is augmented through a systematic value driven knowledge management system to yield new knowledge that can create a competitive advantage. To succeed in such an economy, organisations must have or develop the talent that can produce and use information effectively, they must have an ambidextrous organisational structure that allows them to innovate and produce simultaneously, and they must have an innovation management system to sustain effective innovation. In this paper we show how to augment existing university courses to simultaneously develop subject matter and innovation skills in students. We also suggest the incorporation of the new Innovations Management System Standard Series ISO 56000 into business curricula to better prepare students to function in the knowledge economy.

Keywords: innovation; ISO 56000; knowledge economy; innovation management system; curriculum; flipped learning; contextualised leadership development.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIOME.2024.137244

International Journal of Information and Operations Management Education, 2024 Vol.7 No.3, pp.254 - 267

Received: 06 Mar 2023
Accepted: 05 Aug 2023
Published online: 06 Mar 2024 *

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