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THE ROLE OF AMBIGUITY AND DISCREPANCY IN EARLY PHASES OF INNOVATION
Laursen, Linda Nhu; Tollestrup, Christian
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Year:
2015
Editor:
Christian Weber, Stephan Husung, Gaetano Cascini, Marco CantaMESsa, Dorian Marjanovic, Francesca Montagna
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Series:
ICED
Institution:
Aalborg University, Denmark
Section:
Innovation and Creativity
Page(s):
081-090
ISBN:
978-1-904670-71-1
ISSN:
2220-4334
Abstract:
Innovation literature mainly focuses on eliminating ambiguity and discrepancy from the early phases of innovation. This study questions this implicit assumption, as it may provide an oversimplified view on, how to attain proficiency. Instead of narrowly focusing on reducing ambiguity and discrepancy, we seek to understand if it might be there for a reason. Through a laboratory experiment, we propose ambiguity and discrepancy actually have a function in concept development. Accordingly the paper contributes with a better understanding of, the role ambiguity and discrepancy as triggers of sense making in conceptualisation in the early phases of innovation.
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