A consultant capable of seizing market opportunities, assessing the strengths of new products and better performing services and making the area in which the company operates more attractive to investors or the birth of start-ups which, from the contamination within the supply chain, can become part of the flywheel of innovation and contribute to overall growth.
This is the profile of the professional figure of the innovation manager, whose objective is to support companies in the processes of technological and digital transformation envisaged in the National 4.0 Plan, identified by a study carried out by the School of trainingtraining of Unindustria of Reggio Emilia.
We are not yet a country of Innovation Managers
The study points out that the figure of the innovation consultant is not very widespread in the territory, but at the same time it shows that the function of stimulating, selecting and launching innovative ideas in both small and large companies is indispensable. This function often coincides with the person of the entrepreneur or with technical and non-specific profiles.
In addition, the idea of training young recent graduates as innovation managers is rejected, a figure which, according to the study, can be trained more successfully from executives with several years of experience.
