Collaborative innovation networks are cyberteams of motivated individuals and are
self-organizing emergent social systems with the potential to promote health happiness and
individual growth in real-world work settings.This book describes how to identify and nurture
collaborative innovation networks in order to shape the future working environment and pave the
way for health and happiness and how to develop future technologies to promote economic
development social innovation and entrepreneurship. The expert contributions and case studies
presented also offer insights into how large corporations can creatively generate solutions to
real-world problems by means of self-organizing mechanisms while simultaneously promoting the
well-being of individual workers. The book also discusses how such networks can benefit
startups offering new self-organizing forms of leadership in which all stakeholders are
encouraged to collaborate in the development of new products.
