The New Paradigm of Work-spaces
“Innovation is widely recognized as an important engine of growth. The underlying approach to innovation has been changing, shifting away from models largely focused on Research and Development (R&D) in knowledge-based globalized economies and giving more emphasis to other major sources of the innovation process. Understanding how organisations build up resources for innovation has thus become a crucial challenge to find new ways of supporting innovation in all areas of activity. This report supports and contributes to the historical approach to workplaces analysis and the associated policies by showing the importance of work organisation, interactions within organisations. The analytical approach of the essay opens the black box of what would be the relation of the organisational attitude and its work-space till the innovation organizations through a historical point of view…”
