KIMAP Research Seminarを開催します

10月6日（火）に KIMAP Research Seminarを開催します。
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日時

2026年10月6日（火）13:30～14:30

タイトル

Realising the public benefits of underground innovation

アブストラクト

Underground innovation is the development of innovations by employees that are unsanctioned, unsupervised, and developed without official company resources. Such projects can take up to 70% of employees’ time and propel technological breakthroughs, like Toshiba’s first laptop. Their significance is anticipated to further increase with the democratisation of tools that augment individuals’ skillsets to innovate, like GenAI. Recent evidence, however, indicates that most underground innovations never surface due to a lack of incentives for employees to disclose. Most underground innovations remain private information of the innovators, leading to diffusion failure and untapped productivity. Scholars advised the careful design of idea-management systems and crowdsourcing campaigns to surface underground innovations, but such interventions can hardly compensate for employees’ underground innovation efforts and are, as such, ineffective. In this presentation, Dr. Max Mulhijzen will share his insights into the phenomenon of underground innovation and its diffusion failure. Based on projects with Ford Motor Company and the Dutch National Police, he will present the disconnect between employees’ motivations to innovate underground and their proactive dissemination, labelled proactivity constraints. Dr. Max Mulhuijzen will also present his future research agenda on this topic—as an invitation to join underground innovation research.

講演者

Dr. Max Mulhuijzen (Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

会場

六甲台第1キャンパス　第三学舎中会議室（経営学研究科）

開催方法

対面開催

言語

英語

対象

神戸大学大学院経営学研究科 教員・大学院生

参加申込方法

事前申し込みは不要ですので、直接会場へお越しください。

問い合わせ先

于 鑫 准教授（神戸大学大学院経営学研究科）
yuxin[at]people.kobe-u.ac.jp