Workplace innovation: a review and potential future avenues

In this article, we present an overview of European workplace innovation policy, theory, research and practice. In our review, we will first highlight the ways in which different policy, theory, empirical, and practical approaches to workplace innovation diverge and converge. Second, we will outline some potential future avenues for the field of workplace innovation to move towards greater convergence in terms of policy, theory, research and practice. We will insist specifically on showing how a closer integration between policy, research and practice could address some of the major barriers to workplace innovation adoption in national, regional and EU policy as well as in organizations.