Abstract
In my 16 years of experience in innovation and cluster management in a public innovation agency, I have completely changed my perspective on innovation, change, and resistance based on an education in person-centered counseling. In this chapter, I share the learnings from both. Simply put, I have developed a person-centered way of dealing with process challenges, leading creative teams, and managing collaboration in organizational and regional innovation systems. This chapter focuses on a new model for the innovation process based on Rogers’ concept of creativity and links it to innovation. Furthermore, a short view on innovation climate and collaboration culture will be given and I am going to share my personal experience on how to deal with change and resistance as a person-centered rule breaker.
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I want to thank Daniela Tausch for recommending Helmut Beutel to me. I would like to thank Helmut Beutel, Dorothea Kunze, Hans Jellouschek, and Schorsch Wilms for great educational courses, Dr. Klaus Antons for empathic and constructive supervision, Renate Motschnig for inviting me to write this article and my team, especially Bianca Kolb and Jonas Lander, for supporting me in my role as a person-centered rule breaker.
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Haasis, K. (2013). A Person-Centered Approach to Innovation Management: Experiences and Learnings. In: Cornelius-White, J., Motschnig-Pitrik, R., Lux, M. (eds) Interdisciplinary Applications of the Person-Centered Approach. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7144-8_17
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