This volume guides workplace trainers in teaching the significance of Employee Driven Innovation (EDI) and recognising that each and every employee is capable of being the driver of innovation.

Justina Tan is Director of Learning and Professional Development at the Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore University of Social Sciences. She holds Doctor of Education (EdD) degrees from University College London, Institute of Education and Nanyang Technological University. Justina leads the IAL in helping enterprises deepen workplace learning and engage in employee-driven innovation.

Wing On Lee is the Executive Director of the Institute for Adult Learning and concurrently serves as a professor at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. Before that, he was Distinguished Professor and Director of the International and Comparative Education Research Centre and the Central Plains Education Research Centre at Zhengzhou University. He is the Series Editor of Springer Education Innovation Series; the Routledge Critical Issues in Asian Education series; and Routledge Character, Values and Citizenship Education series. He is former President of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (2010-13). In 2022, he was awarded the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame (IACEHOF), Class 2021, in America.

1. Making Employee-Driven Innovation Achievable: Paving the Way

Justina Tan and Joel Sim

2. Innovation Mindsets - A Framework to Understand Employees' Motivation to Act on Opportunities for Innovation

Malte Krohn and Cornelius Herstatt

3. Forging an Innovation Mindset: Practices in Small to Medium Size Enterprises

Chong Wan Har, Joel Sim, Calvin M. L. Chan and Stephen Billett

4. Moving Beyond the Innovation Mindset

Laura McLaughlin and James McLaughlin

5. Employee Empowerment as a Foundational Approach to Foster Employee-Driven Innovation

Chukwuemeka Echebiri

6. Emergence of Employee-Driven Innovation: The Dynamic Interplay of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes

Izabelle Bäckström and Wafa Said Mosleh

7. Employee Capability and Knowledge as Driving Forces for SMES' Competitive Advantages

Sam Boran Li

8. Employee-Driven Innovation (EDI) in Finland

Esa Hiltunen

9. Understanding Employee-Driven Innovation Through Positioning Theory Lens: Insights From Singapore

Justina Tan

10. Making EDI Work From Theory to Practice - Encapsulating the Essence

Wing On Lee and Justina Tan