Developing a scientific and policy research agenda for workplace innovation: An invitation for conversation and collaboration

This final chapter reviews the approach to workplace innovation in the book’s previous 13 chapters. The book shows there is much variety in the field. While this hampers convergence in research, it is at the same time a richness. The future requires a global conversation on workplace innovation among the stakeholders, instead of a detailed listing of research questions and issues. After all, insights into workplace innovation should be made actionable for practice and policy. And since there is a huge variety in the type of possible interventions within the workplace innovation concept, it is perhaps not desirable to streamline the pervasive field into a limited number of research avenues. Therefore, this chapter, or indeed, the whole book, is an invitation to further cooperation and co-innovation in the workplace innovation field among researchers, consultants, policymakers, and practitioners from industries.