CLASSIFICATION OF INNOVATIONS

Abstract

The predominant part of research and methods of studying innovation focus on technological changes in products or processes. Non-technological or purely organizational and management innovation is relatively less explored, although it is very often closely related to changes in products, services, or processes of their creation. In the late 1990s, studies of technological and non-technological innovation reveal an ever closer intertwining of these types of innovations. The notion of value innovation has begun to be used. In the paper, the classification of innovations is made from different angle and criteria - according to their importance, according to the object of innovation, according to the motivation for their implementation, according to the degree of novelty of the product. from the point of view of consumers and others. The most well-known division of innovations in "pulled" and "pushed" is also presented, as well as the opinion of leading international organizations and committees dealing with innovation. The categories of open innovation, lead-user innovation, distributed innovation, frugal innovation or even "reverse" or " jugaad innovation " and "sustainable and green innovation" are clarified.