Research vision

CINet’s research vision builds on the recognition that contemporary organizations must simultaneously achieve three interconnected forms of excellence:

• Operational excellence: the ability to reliably deliver value to current stakeholders through efficient and well-functioning processes.
• Innovation excellence: the capacity to generate, develop, and implement new ideas, products, services, processes, and business models.
• Strategic excellence: the capability to make coherent long-term choices in the face of uncertainty, complexity, and competing demands.

Understanding how these forms of excellence interact requires deep insight into creativity and innovation processes at the individual, team, organizational, and ecosystem levels. CINet promotes research that is theoretically rigorous, empirically grounded, and relevant to practice, encouraging collaboration between scholars and practitioners.

CINet places particular emphasis on research that contributes to understanding and addressing grand societal challenges, including sustainability transitions, digital transformation, social inequality, and public-sector innovation.

Creativity and innovation are essential drivers in developing responses to these challenges. CINet encourages research that crosses organizational, sectoral, and disciplinary boundaries and that explores how innovative solutions can create long-term societal value in parallel with economic performance.