On this explosive growth rest all the gains these nations and their citizens have enjoyed. The use of new technologies in products accounts for much of the recent productivity increases. The highly complex and uncertain environment leads to the search for ways to reduce risks and calls for competence overriding hierarchy. Innovative ability is the new market requirement of the 1990s and beyond. This requirement is an extension from the previous characteristics of the time, i.e., efficiency, quality and flexibility.
Innovation always involves renewal, and renewal always includes change.
Flexibility means the ability to change quickly, innovativeness means the ability to renew quickly and thus more than change. For our industries to cope with the challenges they confront, the promotion of productivity is a necessity, the essence of which as a consequence of physical limitations of human beings, lies in more knowledgeable work rather than just hard work.