Via Chief Learning Officer:
…there are five key skills of disruptive innovators: associating, questioning, observing, networking and experimenting. These make up “the innovator’s DNA,” a set of behaviors that anyone can practice to consistently develop innovative ideas and become discovery-driven thinkers…[and] to scale innovation from an individual to an organizational level, leaders must imprint their organizations with their own innovator’s DNA.
http://clomedia.com/articles/view/does-your-company-enable-innovation/print:1