MODELING CONCEPT DESIGN OF INNOVATION PLATFORM

Abstract

The transformation of the innovation processes is a fact and new forms of cooperation and partnership among companies and research community emerge. The paper presents a model of concept design of Innovation platform, based on the 4 networked innovation models. Knowledge management is a common approach, providing opportunity for better knowledge exploitation in innovation life-cycle and considering new types of cooperation among innovation seekers and innovation providers. The Innovation platform concept design proposes unique opportunity for generation, exploitation and dissemination of innovation ideas and products, enhancing various forms of interaction and networking between different end-users. Finally, a link of the Innovation platform and organizational knowledge portal is discussed as part of one integrated knowledge management process.