The reflections in this article aim to contribute toward the conceptual improvement of innovation management practices, highlighting the need to enhance decision making processes and the effects of networking as key factors for the promotion of a company's innovation capabilities and competitiveness. The article discusses the connection between three particularly useful approaches for innovation management - Foresight, Competitive Intelligence and Knowledge Management, arguing that their simultaneous use can generate a chain of added knowledge value, thereby positively influencing the aforementioned decision making processes and networking effects.
Foresight; competitive intelligence; knowledge management; innovation management; competitiveness management
