Innovation management: a high-risk career?

While 45% of CEOs prioritise innovation in the boardroom, for those individuals responsible for leading innovation, careers can be stressful, risky and short. Failure is poorly tolerated.

Over recent years, an increasing variety of job titles address this area – Chief Technology Officer, Head of Innovation, R&D Director and many more at different levels of the organisation – and all could be termed Innovation Leaders. But what core knowledge and abilities are required to be effective in these roles?

There have been growing calls to professionalise innovation management. Sweden and Japan have gone down this path. Professionalisation often leads to higher rewards, and more career certainty. And yet, innovation has always relied on mavericks – rule breakers. So would professionalisation have the effect of turning innovation into a game of following rules, thereby supressing the very sparkle that makes innovation so powerful?

Join our lively discussion on 25th April 2024 in a free event developed by R&D Today in partnership with RADMA and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, ahead of the 2024 R&D Management Conference in June. We will be asking “Is it time to professionalise innovation management?”

Ahead of the webinar we asked two eminent academics Peter Robbins and Gina O’Connor to explain why innovation management is a high risk career. They will be joining the webinar.

Find out more at https://www.rndtoday.co.uk/

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