What Kind of Persons are 'Empathetic Innovators' Crucial to Innovation?: - From the case of the electronic compass device R&D team -

This study focuses on the human resources necessary for generating innovations that can transform society. Specifically, it examines not the central figures who propose unconventional ideas but the nearest neighbor figures with Strong motivation, high qualifications, and interactions with others based on these. Based on a case study, the essential characteristics of advanced followers for driving innovation have been distinctly identified. Each was originally motivated by desires for self-efficacy, challenge, achievement, and so on, and possessed specialized knowledge, creative thinking tendencies, and social skills. Furthermore, as network hubs, they had a panoramic cognitive ability to survey their environment and a forecasting ability for the future to drive innovation autonomously. And the most important thing was for the desires of advanced followers to resonate and empathize with the winning story.