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The impact of watching science fiction on the creativity of individuals: The role of STEM background Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Veronica Marozzo, Antonio Crupi, Tindara Abbate, Fabrizio Cesaroni, Vincenzo Corvello
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Making the whole university entrepreneurial – decades of legitimacy-building through Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Mats Lundqvist, Karen Williams-Middleton
This article investigates how more than 25 years of combined entrepreneurial activities have not only developed the third mission of an entrepreneurial university but also improved the first and second missions of education and research. The case, Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship, displays how faculty and annual cohorts of student surrogate entrepreneurs taking on university spinoffs, champion pragmatic
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Data-push innovation beyond serendipity: The case of a digital platform making Earth Observation data fit into multiple use contexts Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Raphaëlle Barbier, Skander Ben Yahia, Sylvain Lenfle, Benoit Weil
The potential of data to circulate across organizations and sectors and stimulate innovation in multiple contexts has been largely acknowledged by practitioners and researchers. This has given rise to a specific form of innovation strategy, “data-push innovation”, which consists of stimulating the use of existing data by third-party actors. However, how to manage such a strategy remains challenging
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Pushing boundaries or overstepping? Exploring the paradoxical impact of radical innovation on government subsidies in Chinese SMEs Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Xin Pan, Xuanjin Chen, Shumin Qiu
Does radical innovation always benefit small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)? This paper explores the potential drawbacks of radical innovation by examining the complex relationship between the degree of innovation radicalness and government subsidies, within the framework of dual-process signalling theory. The study highlights the importance of both signal observability and the costs of signal
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Contest design and solvers' engagement behaviour in crowdsourcing: The neo-configurational perspective Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Anja Tekic, Diana Vilma Alfonzo Pacheco
Companies face the challenges of attracting solvers and motivating them to dedicate their time and effort to develop solutions in crowdsourcing contests. Previous research emphasizes the importance of crowdsourcing contest design for fostering solvers' engagement. However, even though contests are designed as a combination of various design elements, such as seeker's identity disclosure, seeker's status
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Innovation processes in ecosystem settings: An integrative framework and future directions Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Lucas Emmanuel Nascimento Silva, Leonardo Augusto de Vasconcelos Gomes, Aline Mariane de Faria, Felipe Mendes Borini
Although the foundational works of ecosystem research recognized the central role of innovation, the current scholarship lacks a more systemic, systemized understanding of how innovation processes take place in ecosystem settings. This lack of a dominant framework that bridges innovation processes and ecosystem fields risks leading to a situation in which crucial problems at the intersection of these
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Determinants and impacts of digital entrepreneurship: A pre- and post-COVID-19 perspective Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Claudia Yáñez-Valdés, Maribel Guerrero
Entrepreneurship and technology have been strongly connected over the last decades. The growth of digital technology and external factors have brought entrepreneurs new opportunities and challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic has reevaluated the relationship between digitalization and innovative business models. Like any entrepreneurial process, entrepreneurs face a complex adaptation process that determines
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Techno-humane futures in the global south: lessons from Professor Shonku Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Arindam Das, Subhasis Ray
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Determinants of reward crowdfunding success: Evidence from Covid-19 pandemic Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Zeinab Elrashidy, Roszaini Haniffa, Mohamed Sherif, Sarra Baroudi
This study examines the impact of quality signals as proxied by third party recognition, videos, photos, GIFs, online presence, and general disclosure; and signals of trust proxied by risk disclosure, location of fundraisers, team effort and recent funding success on reward crowdfunding success. In addition, the analysis investigates and provides new evidence on the moderating effects of the Covid-19
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Science fiction, sustainability, and scenario use: Comprehensive scenarios for improved strategy development and innovation Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Henrik Skaug Sætra
Businesses are increasingly integrating sustainability – or Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) – into existing strategies or developing separate sustainability strategies. Simultaneously, they are reporting on their sustainability related impacts, and the use of is becoming more common both in strategy development and risk assessments aimed at reporting. However, the value of the approaches to
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Consumers’ reaction to sci-fi as a source of information for technological development: An empirical analysis Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, Luca Mora, Angelo Natalicchio, Federico Platania, Celina Toscano Hernandez
Science fiction (sci-fi) creative products inspire individuals by envisioning alternative futures and imaginary technological development. The stimuli conveyed by sci-fi creative products can trigger consumers' interest, which nowadays translate into reactions on social media platforms. Consequently, these reactions allow to understand the attitude of potential consumers towards not-yet-developed technologies
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From contributors to boundary spanners: Evolving roles of government agencies in China’s innovation policy network (1980–2019) Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Yutao Sun, Lin Jiang, Cong Cao, Fang-Mei Tseng
The complexity of innovation governance has led to increasing participation of relevant government agencies and a clear division of their roles within policy networks, where they function not only as contributors but also as boundary spanners. This study investigates the evolving roles of government agencies as contributors and boundary spanners (i.e., brokers) within the innovation policy network
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Big problems require large collective actions: Managing multilateral coopetition in strategic innovation networks Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Audrey Rouyre, Anne-Sophie Fernandez, Olga Bruyaka
Grand challenges such as climate change require radical large-scale solutions. Radical innovations developed by multiple competitors collaborating in strategic innovation networks could be such a solution. However, managing multilateral coopetition (i.e., simultaneous cooperation and competition between more than two competitors) in a network setting is challenging due to a greater number of network
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Projects as a speciation and aggregation mechanism in transitions: Bridging project management and transitions research in the digitalization of UK architecture, engineering, and construction industry. Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 George Papachristos, Eleni Papadonikolaki, Bethan Morgan
Sociotechnical transitions are mostly seen in the literature as processes where actors and technologies in small niches peripheral to an organizational field, accumulate momentum, scale up, aggregate, and eventually bring about large-scale regime change. Foundational examples include the British transition from sailing ships to steamships and the American transition from traditional factories to mass
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How does incorporating ChatGPT within a firm reinforce agility-mediated performance? The moderating role of innovation infusion and firms’ ethical identity Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Amir Talaei-Khoei, Alan T. Yang, Masialeti Masialeti
The expansion of ChatGPT has sparked substantial discussions on the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence AI to profoundly reshape the business environment. However, empirical data on ChatGPT and its effects on firm performance are still lacking. In accordance with relevant literature, this study investigates the influence of ChatGPT-enabled agility, encompassing both operational and market
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Crowd mining as a strategic resource for innovation seekers Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Riccardo Bonazzi, Gianluigi Viscusi, Adriano Solidoro
This article explores how to help people who organize crowdsourcing events (called “seekers”) choose the best ideas from those submitted by participants (called “solvers'). To this end, we created a method using techniques like topic modeling and text analysis to sort and group ideas. Then, we tested this method on data from crowdsourcing contests in Italy in 2021. In particular, considering the literature
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When anthropomorphism backfires: Anticipation of negative social roles as a source of resistance to smart object adoption Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Ilaria Querci, Luigi Monsurrò, Paolo Peverini
Despite the great potential of smart objects (SOs), their diffusion among consumers remains limited. Previous research on resistance to innovation cites functional, psychological, and individual barriers to consumer adoption of SOs, but it does not consider the role of SOs’ anthropomorphic features or their role as potential partners in relationships that can be referenced to interpersonal ones. We
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The goal and performance heterogeneity of academic spinoffs Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Alice Civera, Alfredo De Massis, Michele Meoli, Silvio Vismara
We argue that the divergent motivations underlying their creation and goals can contribute to the varying performance of academic spinoffs. Through a quantitative study on a sample of 778 academic spinoffs established by 59 Italian state universities from 2006 to 2015, we show that academic spinoffs established (1) for extrinsic monetary motivations are more likely to generate higher profits, (2) for
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Absorptive capacity versus competency trap: Experiential knowledge and investment in emerging technologies Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Wen Mu, Xu Jiang
Because of the radical novelty of emerging technologies, investing in such technologies brings high risk and great uncertainty. Whether investors’ experiential knowledge encourages or discourages investment in emerging technologies remains under investigation. Juxtaposing the “absorptive capacity” and “competency trap” perspectives, this study proposes a pair of competing hypotheses regarding the influence
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Defining design orientation: A field-based discovery approach Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Pinar Cankurtaran, Michael B. Beverland, Francis J. Farrelly
The value of design as a means of innovation has long been recognized. More recently, interest in how design can create value has moved from a functional to a strategic focus whereby the design concept defines the way in which the whole firm competes. This is known as “design orientation,” although research on the nature of this construct remains scarce. In this exploratory study to define and unpack
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Unraveling the mystery of the link between digital orientation and innovation performance: The interplay of digital business capability and environmental dynamism Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Piyush Ranjan
Although there is contradictory evidence that digital orientation (DO) is strategically significant for obtaining superior innovation performance (IP), extant literature lacks a holistic mechanism through which DO influences IP and fails to explore the boundary conditions that constrain or improve the DO-IP relationship. This study, guided by the Resource-based view and its dynamic capability extension
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Individual-level absorptive capacity: Unveiling the interplay between dispositions and work context Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 H. Emre Yildiz, Adis Murtic, Sergey Morgulis-Yakushev, Magnus Klofsten
While extant literature conceptually recognizes individuals as an integral part of the process with which organizations absorb new knowledge, past research has paid limited attention to the antecedents of individual-level absorptive capacity. In this paper, we address this research gap. We build on the interactionist perspective and propose that individual-level absorptive capacity is shaped by the
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Intermediaries as drivers of innovation development in resource-constrained environments: Insights from the Kenyan water sector Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Anne M.J. Hyvärinen, Marko Keskinen, Jarkko Levänen
Innovations as a solution for sustainability and development challenges are increasingly attracting the attention of academia and practitioners, and collaboration between different actors is seen as a requirement for successful innovation development. In this article, we study innovation intermediaries in resource-constrained environments through a case study of the Kenyan water sector. To understand
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Where and how does a product evolve? Product innovation pattern in product lineage Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Dawoon Jeong, Jeong-Dong Lee
This study overcomes the limitations of the technology life cycle (TLC) model by deriving a product lineage within a phylogenetic tree to identify the product development trajectory and quantitatively measure innovativeness by measuring the average information content of the product's technical characteristics. The cyclical pattern of changes in the innovativeness in product lineage was modeled, referred
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Knowledge diversity and technological innovation: The moderating role of top management teams Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Bob Walrave, Nino van de Wal, Victor Gilsing
Knowledge diversity between a firm's groups of inventors enables recombinatory search for innovation. Yet, such diversity remains rather useless unless it is actively exchanged among inventor groups. Inventor groups, however, tend to specialize by engaging in so-called perspective-making activities, that is, in intra-group knowledge exchange and specialization. This makes them increasingly unable to
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Types of common R&D partners and knowledge leakage to rivals: The role of IP litigation reputation Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Sarah Edris, René Belderbos, Victor Gilsing
We argue that knowledge leakage may occur between rival firms through indirect ties, i.e., if rivals collaborate on R&D with a common partner, but that firms with an aggressive reputation for IP litigation may be able to restrict such knowledge spillovers. We argue that knowledge leakage is more prominent, and litigation reputation is less powerful, when the common partner is a university or public
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Unraveling paradoxical tensions in digital servitization ecosystems: An analysis of their interrelationships from the technology provider's perspective Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Guilherme Sales Smania, Lauro Osiro, Néstor Fabián Ayala, Wim Coreynen, Glauco H.S. Mendes
Effective collaboration between manufacturers, technology providers, and customers is an issue of critical importance in digital servitization ecosystems. Nevertheless, creating and implementing smart solutions is complex and instigates paradoxical tensions among ecosystem actors, often leading to hurdles and possibly failures. Though recent studies have focused on identifying these tensions, a comprehensive
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Nurturing innovation through intelligent failure: The art of failing on purpose Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Alessandro Narduzzo, Valentina Forrer
Failure, even in the context of innovation, is primarily conceived and experienced as an inevitable (e.g., innovation funnel) or unintended (e.g., unexpected drawbacks) outcome. This paper aims to provide a more systematic understanding of innovation failure by considering and problematizing the case of “intelligent failures”, namely experiments that are intentionally designed and implemented to explore
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Does environmental regulation enhance servitization in aspirant markets? Evidence from China's manufacturing sector Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Feng Zhang, Xile Yin, Haina Zhang, Xiangcen Zhan
In contrast to prior studies that focus on the product or technological dimension of environmental innovation, this study broadens the scope of environmental innovation to the business model innovation of servitization. It investigates the exogenous shock of environmental policy on the servitization of manufacturing firms in the specific context of aspirant markets such as China. By employing the
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Toward human-centered AI management: Methodological challenges and future directions Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Mengchen Dong, Jean-François Bonnefon, Iyad Rahwan
As algorithms powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) are increasingly involved in the management of organizations, it becomes imperative to conduct human-centered AI management research and understand people's feelings and behaviors when machines gain power over humans. The two mainstream methods – vignette studies and case studies – reveal important but inconsistent insights. Here we discuss the
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From propriety to validity in new ventures: A nine-year study of three startup companies Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Elin M. Oftedal, Lene Foss, Matthew W. Rutherford
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How do innovation intermediaries’ business models cope with their need to develop new digital services? Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Lluís Ròmul Sala-Vilar, Jason Li-Ying, Tim Traunecker
This study explores relationships among various aspects of Innovation Intermediaries' (IIs) business models and their intention to provide digital and data-enabled services to their members/customers. Using mixed research methods with data collected from Danish IIs, we find that IIs' current use level of digital resources has a positive relationship with their intention of offering digital and data
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Decoding AI readiness: An in-depth analysis of key dimensions in multinational corporations Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Ali N. Tehrani, Subhasis Ray, Sanjit K. Roy, Richard L. Gruner, Francesco P. Appio
Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands ready to impact all aspects of business, from optimizing operations to personalizing services and enhancing customer value. However, many organizations grapple with implementing AI solutions due to a lack of necessary infrastructure and mechanisms. In short, many companies are not adequately prepared to adopt AI. To make matters worse, the literature does not offer
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The impact of innovation failure: Entrepreneurship adversity or opportunity? Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Veronica Scuotto, Domitilla Magni, Alexeis Garcia-Perez, Marco Pironti
Innovation is key to the economic performance of firms. However, several types of risks and uncertainties often lead to high failure rates in innovation projects, to the extent that failure is now considered a typical step in an innovation process. If innovation failure was provoking stress in the past, the current socio-economic contexts makes if it something to regularly deal with and learning from
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The role of OSL in mobile banking application discontinuance: A technological innovation dilemma Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Philip Avornyo, Ziyun Feng, Li Liu, Evans Asante Boadi, John Coffie Azamela, Christian Narh Opata
Discontinuance usage of mobile banking application has been a great concern for banks. Yet, little attention in existing literature is directed toward understanding the underlying reasons why some customers stop using or rarely use mobile banking. Meanwhile, banking research shows that mobile banking is a highly welcomed innovation which has received substantial investment and has numerous benefits
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Highway to hell or paradise city? Exploring the role of growth hacking in learning from innovation failure Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Augusto Bargoni, Luboš Smrčka, Gabriele Santoro, Alberto Ferraris
The purpose of this study is to conceptualize the role of growth hacking, a data-driven iterative experimentation process, in minimizing the likelihood of innovation failure within firms. Drawing upon existing literature on innovation and growth hacking, we provide a conceptual background to frame our research. To investigate this phenomenon, we employ a qualitative approach that combines the Gioia
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Open innovation in the public sector: A research agenda Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Therese Figenschou, Jason Li-Ying, Anne Tanner, Marcel Bogers
Open innovation (OI) is increasingly being adopted by city administrations and municipalities. However, the extent to which the public sector applies OI is yet unclear. Furthermore, studies in OI in public organizations has primarily focused on citizen inclusion and the barriers and drivers of attracting and engaging citizens and seldom considered other external actors, such as academia and other public
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The impact of international patenting on corporate patenting activities: Evidence from Korea Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Sangdong Kim, Jihong Lee
This paper studies the impact of international patenting on corporate patenting activities, using a novel firm-level dataset from Korea. After making an overseas patent application for the first time, firms increase their overall patenting activity, both domestically and internationally, relative to similar firms that operate only in the domestic market for ideas. The improvement occurs in both cited
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Digital technology and COVID-19 pandemic: Feasibility and acceptance of an innovative telemedicine platform Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Emanuela Foglia, Elisabetta Garagiola, Daniele Bellavia, Federica Rossetto, Francesca Baglio
The present feasibility study aims at investigating the potential multidimensional advantages, related to an innovative telehealth ecosystem (whose name is T-CUBE), grounding on digital technologies (DTs), designed as a telemonitoring, telerehabilitation and telesupporting integrated program. Given robust efficacy and safety results, amply demonstrated for DTs in scientific evidence, the study would
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Connecting entrepreneurial ecosystem and innovation. Grasping at straws or hitting a home run? Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Sanjay Chaudhary, Puneet Kaur, Alberto Ferraris, Stefano Bresciani, Amandeep Dhir
Why do some regions continuously exhibit productive entrepreneurship while others stagnate? The entrepreneurial ecosystem and innovation are buzzwords within academic research, representing the cultural, economic, social, and political environment supporting productive entrepreneurship. Scholars have examined the linkage between ecosystems and innovation in the past few years, and there is an agreement
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Digitally enabled food sharing platforms towards effective waste management in a circular economy: A system dynamics simulation model Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Meisam Ranjbari, Zahra Shams Esfandabadi, Peer-Olaf Siebers, Paola Pisano, Francesco Quatraro
As a solution to tackle the food waste (FW) challenge, digitally enabled food sharing platforms (FSPs) are emerging as FW warriors and anti-waste social movements. Despite the rapidly growing number of users, the amount of FW prevented per user in these platforms is relatively low. Hence, the real contribution of FSPs to the circular economy (CE) by preventing FW is still blurred. To fill this gap
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Not all (innovation) failures are created equal: A typology of companies’ responses to the consequences of innovation failure Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Francesco Paolo Appio, Francesca Capo, Maria Carmela Annosi
Failure and innovation have always been inextricably linked. What matters in today's complex environment, however, is how companies deal with failure from innovation. Although recent research indicates that they are often likely to fail, failure still overall assumes a negative connotation and is thus perceived as something to avoid. By combining prior research on types of failure (spurious vs traditional
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A cooperative game theory systems approach to the value analysis of (innovation) ecosystems Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Ove Granstrand
This paper presents a new approach for analyzing ecosystems in general, be they technical and/or economic, or even biological, with special reference to innovation ecosystems. The approach is grounded in systems theory and game theory, especially cooperative game theory. Theory approaches to ecosystem analysis in previous research are reviewed. Procedures are presented for assessing value creation
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The paradox analysis and functional mechanism between R&D efficiency and transformation effect: Evidence from key universities in China Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Qiaoyu Meng, Yi Li, Qinwei Cao
To elucidate the paradox between high R&D efficiency and low transformation effect in China, we exploit this setting via two-stage DEA approach to calculate knowledge production efficiency (KPE) and knowledge transformation effect (KTE) at different stages and under different motivations. Using panel data of key universities in China, we conduct empirical analysis with the Fractional Logit model and
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Motivations and challenges of intrapreneurship in research organizations. The case of decision support systems in agricultural research for development Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Nicolas Paget, Pierre-Yves Le Gal, Frédéric Goulet
This article focuses on researchers who are using the outputs of their scientific research to develop decision support systems (DSS) to advanced technology readiness levels. By taking their DSS beyond the published proofs of concept level, they are assuming the role of intrapreneurs. We examine the role and motivations of individual researchers in producing these DSS in relation to the main organizational
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To formalize, or not to formalize, business incubators’ networks: That is not the question Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Jean Bibeau, Roxane Meilleur, Étienne St-Jean
With more than seven decades of supporting entrepreneurs, today's business incubators are distinguished by their external networks. These networks of collaborators provide key resources, knowledge, and skills. Studies call on incubator managers to formalize the management of their networks, a practice that can generate a competitive advantage. However, research to date has been relatively silent on
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Blazing the trail: The role of digital and green servitization on technological innovation Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Neha B. Upadhayay, Silvia Rocchetta, Shivam Gupta, Sachin Kamble, Rebecca Stekelorum
This paper explores the effect of digital and green servitization on firms' technological innovation performances. Drawing on the Organisational Learning Capabilities (OLC) and Dynamic Capabilities theories, we conjecture that digital and green servitization represent a crucial learning mechanism for firms that translates into an ampler set of dynamic capabilities, including the ability to produce
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Going online: Peer entrepreneur networks in a startup accelerator before and during the COVID-19 pandemic Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Kai Becker, Joris J. Ebbers, Yuval Engel
A key value proposition of startup accelerators is the creation of social networks among participating entrepreneurs. The formation of these so-called “peer entrepreneur networks” is assumed to be strengthened by physical proximity within the accelerator, which facilitates the creation of trust and opportunities for informal, and often serendipitous, interactions. However, in response to the global
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Integration of product-service innovation into green supply chain management: Emerging opportunities and paradoxes Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-26 Oscar F. Bustinza, Ferran Vendrell-Herrero, Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour
With the dawn of the new century, product-based companies have undergone a transformative evolution by embracing servitization, integrating services into their traditional product offerings. This phenomenon represents a form of product-service innovation aimed at enhancing competitiveness while fostering economic, social, and environmental sustainability. While substantial research has focused on the
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The role of innovation portfolio in green innovation decisions: A study of French and Italian firms Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-26 Efi Vasileiou, Nikolaos Georgantzis, Giuseppe Attanasi, Patrick Llerena
Recent research has shown that Green Innovation (GI) may be a profitable strategy, provided that the innovating firm enjoys synergies raised by specific combinations of innovation domains. Therefore, GI decisions may depend on the firm's overall innovation portfolio. Along this line of research, this paper aims at identifying combinations of innovation domains (product, process, organization and marketing)
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Process and variance research: Integrating research on university spinoff evolution Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Athira Bahuleyan, Meena Chavan, Anna Krzeminska, Francesco Chirico
University spinoffs (USOs) are firms created to commercialize research outcomes or innovative technologies developed by university members. This paper adopts a systematic literature review approach for explorinhe trajectory of the USO research field. It categorizes the literature based on two perspectives: the process of how USOs develop and what factors can explain the variance of USO development;
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University procurement-led innovation: Sources, procedures, and effects. Some field-study evidence Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Sofia Patsali
This paper introduces a new perspective about the economic role of research by focusing on the impact of university procurement on firm innovation. We discuss how universities play a leading role in scientific equipment innovation, akin to the one portrayed for US and European government agencies in the context of military equipment and driven by specific missions. The key difference is that missions
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Sustained value creation driven by digital connectivity: A multiple case study in the mechanical components industry Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Claudia Franzè, Emilio Paolucci, Elena Pessot
This paper investigates how digital connectivity drives new forms of sustained value creation in traditional industries, where many firms still compete and strategize within a traditional industry structure and supply chain logic. We perform a multiple case study with four companies active in the vehicle component industry and implementing digital connectivity in a business-to-business (B2B) setting
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Commercializing Covid-19 diagnostic technologies: A review of challenges, success factors, and insights from the profiting from innovation framework Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Javad Soltanzadeh, Navid Sahebjamnia, Elnaz Mesma Khosroshahi, Abderaouf Bouguerra
Evidence shows that only a few newly developed diagnostic technologies to control and mitigate the recent health crisis- Covid-19 pandemic, have been successfully commercialized. Building on this, we review systematically the literature on the challenging and success factors of the commercialization of Covid-19 diagnostic technologies. In so doing, we draw on the six components of the Profiting From
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The impact of business-to-government relationship emphasis on green innovation: An empirical analysis Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Xingping Jia, Jiangzhe Wang, Tingting Liu
The purpose of this study is to explore how and under what conditions business-to-government (B2G) relationship emphasis (i.e., firms’ dependence on government customers for revenue) affects firm green innovation. Using a sample of publicly listed Chinese firms that received at least one government contract during 2007–2020, we find a U-shaped relationship between B2G relationship emphasis and firm
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Can gamification help green supply chain management firms achieve sustainable results in servitized ecosystem? An empirical investigation Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Abhishek Behl, Brinda Sampat, Jighyasu Gaur, Vijay Pereira, Benjamin Laker, Amit Shankar, Peter Shi, Moe Roohanifar
This study investigates gamification's role in promoting sustainable green supply chain management practices (GSCMP), examining what no study has before. The theoretical lens of self-determination and goal-setting enabled the design of a systematic questionnaire to gather data from companies in the retail industry. In total, 254 responses were obtained. The theoretical model was tested using Warp partial
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Sustainable servitization in product manufacturing companies: The relationship between firm's sustainability emphasis and profitability and the moderating role of servitization Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Marko Kohtamäki, Krishna Raj Bhandari, Rodrigo Rabetino, Mikko Ranta
The literature on servitization and product-service systems calls for more robust evidence and theory regarding the concept of “sustainable servitization”, and how it balances sustainability, profits, and servitization. This study interprets sustainable servitization as an interaction of sustainability and servitization, investigating how servitization moderates the complex relationship between strategic
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Working through frame incongruences: A process perspective on (re)framing for digital servitization Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Jawwad Z. Raja, Isabelle Fabienne Neufang, Thomas Frandsen, Ismail Gölgeci
Industrial firms are increasingly seeking new means of competitiveness through digital servitization that involves incorporating digital services and platforms. Despite the growing prominence of digital servitization, we have yet to understand how such changes are being framed, reframed, and unfold in industrial firms. To this end, we undertake an in-depth longitudinal exploratory case study of an
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Examining the failure of gamification in implementing innovation from the perspective of problematization in the retail sectors of emerging economies Technovation (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Abhishek Behl, Nirma Jayawardena, Shikha Bhardwaj, Vijay Pereira, Manlio del Giudice, Justin Zhang
Gamification is a strategy, methodology, or activity that has picked up pace over time and has been successfully deployed in organizations. Despite massive efforts to capture the success of the deployment of gamification in implementing innovation, its failure in this regard has hitherto been ignored. Until recently, it has been difficult to understand such failure from a contributing factor perspective