Managing Innovation Through a Competency-Based Approach

To develop and assess the emotional and social intelligence competencies that entrepreneurs and innovation professionals should mobilize in their innovation endeavor, the competency-based framework can be adopted in companies and higher education institutions to guide the design of effective educational programs and human resource management practices. The chapter offers methodological recommendations to design courses for competency development based on the intentional change theory and provides indications to recruiters and employers to assess the competency profile that candidates should manifest in the workplace to boost innovation.