Corinna - Collaborative innovation in ICT-enabled business processes and business models (2008-2012)
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To sustain competitiveness in the global economy, operational efficiency in the present business networks is not enough. Continuous innovations are required in the inter-company processes and business models. ICT is enabling these innovations and can additionally also be used to support the collaborative, inter-company innovation processes themselves.
The 5-year Corinna project develops the generic concept for an ICT-enabled collaborative environment for inter-company innovation. This Virtual Value Space concept consists of the required intellectual property management, virtual leadership and collaborative working practices that ensure effective, fast-paced collaboration for innovation in virtual teams.
The Virtual Value Space (VVS) concept is aimed to support inter-company innovation processes from initial idea conception to the virtual field testing, and for the diagnosis of collaborative innovation capability and of its development over time.
Based on the VVS concept, the technology for the VVS will be developed in parallel research projects. The collaborating universities will apply the VVS for the teaching of virtual cross-border and -cultural student teams, and for experimental research on inter-company innovation processes. Also a management training game is envisaged.
Corinna is a FiDiPro project funded by Tekes. Professor Sirkka Jarvenpaa, University of Texas at Austin, is SimLab‘s FiDiPro Professor and leading scientist in Corinna. Sirkka Jarvenpaa’s research group at University of Texas in Austin (Center for Business, Technology, and Law) collaborates with the research group of professor Riitta Smeds at SimLab. The project collaborates further with professor Matti Vartiainen (TKK, Industrial Engineering and Management, Virtual and Mobile Work Research Unit).
The pilot organizations in Corinna are Finnair, Finnish Savings Banks Association, Hewlett-Packard, Kone, NCC Construction and the City of Rovaniemi.