Innovation capability has been suggested to be a multi-faceted construct. There is no
common way of analysis by which to study it, due to the variety of perspectives of
innovation management (Perdomo-Ortiz et al., 2006). According to Neely et al. (2001),
an organization’s innovation capability can be described as its potential to generate
innovative outputs. Similarly, Lawson and Samson (2001), consider innovation
capability as a theoretical framework aiming to describe the actions that can be taken
to improve the success of innovation activities. Prajogo and Ahmed (2006) discuss the
technological factors of innovation management and human factors of innovation
management. Human factors include the people and social practices as ingredients
in organizational success. Martı´nez-Roman et al. (2011) divide innovation capability in
three-dimensional factors: knowledge, organization, and human factor. Perdomo-Ortiz et al.
(2006) have used a term business innovation capability to describe the critical success
factors of innovation processes. These critical factors can be interpreted as business
innovation capability dimensions, and the capability can be measured with the factors.