In any case, only its actual implementation can qualify the idea as an innovation: the difference between creativity and innovation lies in the fact that even if employees share their ideas with others, it's only when ideas are successfully implemented in the organization that they can be considered innovative.1
Innovation is therefore the extension of the teams' creativity into transversal cooperation within the organization, either to implement the idea in several departments, or to transform it into an innovative product that will be brought to the company's economic market.
For an innovation to become a reality, you need to go beyond the team. It has to reach at least the extended group and often the whole company.
It also happens that certain innovations are disseminated from a field of expertise that is not linked to the company's economic market.
This is the case with spin-offs, born from the discovery of a product for which the company did not want to manage the market. This happens in universities, where researchers develop a product that the institution cannot market. This is the case, for example, of Boston Dynamics, which was created at MIT, or Nanocyl, a small carbon nanotube company created by a professor at the University of Namur.2