We find that rather than being a "cause" of scientific innovation, serendipity acts as the engine behind the selection mechanism, provides researchers with the variability that is necessary to generate innovation, both cognitively, i.e. generating innovative ideas, as well as circumstantially, i.e. generating opportunities to pursue novel ideas.
Nonetheless, there is a lack of research assessing new ideas and influential factors in generating innovative ideas.
Even though generating innovative ideas becomes more difficult as organizations grow in size and complexity (Ernst & Young, 2010), intrapreneurs can effectively lead rapidly growing organizations by focusing on cultivating these important characteristics and skills.
Fortunately, my expectations were exceeded as I saw our Palestinian entrepreneurs successfully integrating with others, being exposed to new perspectives, and generating innovative ideas or improving on previous ones they had.
Bridging, brokering and boundary spanning roles are crucial for bringing useful ideas from one group to another, generating innovative ideas from the selection and synthesis of diverse sources of information, and for increasing understanding and co-operation between groups.
Soda and colleagues [ 49] showed that old bridging ties in the Italian television production industry are not effective for generating innovative ideas since their usefulness is so dependent on the ever-changing context of the industry.
