Creativity and Innovation Management fills a crucial gap in management literature between the theory and practice of organizing imagination and innovation. It gives managers insights into introducing innovation within their organizations and accelerating the development of creative performance in their staff. The journal's central consideration is how to challenge and facilitate creative potential, and how then to imbed this into result orientated innovative business development.

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Winner of a Citation of Excellence Award from Emerald Management Reviews - available free online
Action Planning for New Product Development Projects
Jan Buijs

Featured article
Exploring Differences between Inventors, Champions, Implementers and Innovators in Creating and Developing New Products in Large, Mature Firms
Edward W. Sim, Abbie Griffin, Raymond L. Price, Bruce A. Vojak

Tudor Rickards Best Paper Award
Voted for by CIM editorial board members, the Tudor Rickards Best Paper Award is awarded on an annual basis in honour of our founding members.

2008 winner:
A Social Network Perspective of Lead Users and Creativity: An Empirical Study among Children
Jan Kratzer and Christopher Lettl

2007 winner:
Role Models for Radical Innovations in Times of Open Innovation
Hans Georg Gemunden, Soeren Salomo & Katharina Hölzle

2006 winner:
Team Polarity and Creative Performance in Innovation Teams
Jan Kratzer, Roger Th.A.J. Leenders and Jo M.L. van Engelen

Latest Special Issues
Volume 18 Issue 3: Special Issue on Teaching Innovation Management: Insights and Challenges
Guest edited by Keith Goffin
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Volume 18 Issue 2: TRIZ Special Issue
Guest edited by Carsten Gundlach, Martin G. Moehrle
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Volume 18 Issue 1: Managing the Efficiency-Flexibility Tension in Innovation
Guest edited by Mats Magnusson, Paolo Boccardelli and Sofia Brjesson
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Volume 17 Issue 4 celebrates the 40th anniversary of the home institute of CIM - the School of Management Studies, University of Twente. Under the theme of open innovation, creativity and management and governance this issue contains a special section including an article on Open Innovation Practices in Corporate Venturing by Henry Chesbrough, as well as a review of his book Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm. Also, attention is paid to the concept of Creative Cities, coined by Charles Landry, including a book review of The Art of City Making.

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Excellent, presenting a broad and international range of perspectives.
Regional Manager, Training Enterprise Council (TEC)