‘Innovation Management Devils ’ – A Disruptive Factor Based Analysis of Innovation Processes

Abstract: There is a general agreement in academic research, management lit-erature, and the political agenda that innovation comes to the fore and attracts the attention of companies as well as the global economy. Innovations are ma-jor drivers for national economies and individual companies operating in com-petitive global markets. While a large variety of innovation research focuses on success factors, this paper states that a disruptive factor based strategy proves more useful to support innovation management in complex environments. Therefore, this paper analyses disruptive factors as “Innovation Management Devils ” (IM-Devils) and presents the conceptualisation of a disruptive factor based innovation strategy for the aerospace industry [1]