Chief technology officer´s views and behaviors in the dual innovation management system

The aims of this paper are to describe the concepts of a dual innovation management system, which consists of an innovation management system for dealing with existing business areas and one for creating new business areas, and make clear CTOs´ views and behaviors in a dual innovation management system from thirteen kinds of evaluation points based on technology evaluation capabilities, management capabilities, and entrepreneurship. This discussion is based on the results of a questionnaire for 50 CTOs in large companies in Japan. Judging from the results of the questionnaires, a CTO who successfully executes dual innovation management energetically endeavors to acquire a sort of technical information and information on the social surroundings of his or her company; considers and conducts actions based on his or her philosophy and knowledge integrating such information; and possesses strong intuitive power and insight, bolstered by such information. Moreover, he or she always shows great solicitude in nurturing human resources.