Research and development resources, coopetitive performance and cooperation: The case of standardization in 3GPP, 2004–2013
This study examines the interdependence between research and development (R&D) resources, coopetitive performance, and extent of cooperation in development-related standardization settings that involve network effects. Coopetitive performance is measured as the firm's influence on the change process of standards. Cooperation is measured as the number of firm technology partners in influencing industry technology standards. From a dataset of 152,959 decisions drawn from the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) change request (CR) database for the period 2004–2013, firm influence on the standardization change process ...
Source: Technovation - May 16, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Creating new products from old ones: Consumer motivations for innovating autonomously from firms
Publication date: Available online 14 May 2019Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Karen Robson, Matthew Wilson, Leyland PittAbstractThis research provides knowledge and builds theory related to how and why consumers engage in unsolicited innovation with existing products in order to create new ones. Specifically, this research presents an in-depth qualitative exploration of the motivations consumers have for innovating with existing offerings, of their reasons for innovating autonomously from the organization(s) linked to the source material of their innovation, and of their interpretation of the overall context in which they e...
Source: Technovation - May 16, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
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Publication date: June–July 2019Source: Technovation, Volumes 84–85Author(s): (Source: Technovation)
Source: Technovation - May 14, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
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Publication date: April–May 2019Source: Technovation, Volumes 82–83Author(s): (Source: Technovation)
Source: Technovation - April 26, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
A latecomer firm's R&D collaboration with advanced country universities and research institutes: The case of Huawei in Germany
Publication date: Available online 2 April 2019Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Ingo Liefner, Yue-fang Si, Kerstin SchäferAbstractInnovative latecomer firms are frequently examined for their international knowledge-seeking behavior and approaches towards fast technological learning. Within this line of research, however, little attention has been paid to latecomer firms' collaborative R&D with universities and research institutes (URI) in advanced economies. This paper examines the case of Huawei's collaborative R&D activities with German URI. It finds that in this latecomer case, the aims and the organization of collaborat...
Source: Technovation - April 3, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Collaborative patents and the mobility of knowledge workers
This study explores the importance of the mobility of knowledge workers (i.e., inventors) for the formation of collaborative patents across different regional contexts. In particular, it looks at a sample of co-inventors in the biotechnology industry in Europe, and estimates the factors that speed up the years needed for collaboration. It tests and finds that collaborations between two separated inventors emerge faster if they were located in the same geographical area in the past, even after controlling for a large number of meaningful proximities between them. Furthermore, the empirical approach suggests that this ‘pre...
Source: Technovation - March 28, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
How the innovation-competition link is shaped by technology distance in a high-barrier catch-up economy
Publication date: Available online 20 March 2019Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Evguenia Bessonova, Ksenia GoncharAbstractThe paper studies the effects of competition on innovation in various technology groups of mature Russian manufacturing firms. The purpose of the research is to establish whether more intense competition is good or bad for innovation, and to learn how the response to competition varies between technology leaders, followers and laggards.The study uses the 2014 survey data, which includes 1920 manufacturing firms from 19 sectors and size groups between 10 and 10,000 employees. The finding is that commitmen...
Source: Technovation - March 21, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
The influence of the lean startup methodology on entrepreneur-coach relationships in the context of a startup accelerator
Publication date: Available online 14 March 2019Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Yashar Mansoori, Tomas Karlsson, Mats LundqvistAbstractThe lean startup methodology has been steadily gaining widespread popularity during the past few years. As part of this trend, startup accelerator programs have begun to adopt the methodology as their main organizing framework. At the same time, coaches and their coaching practices lie at the core of many accelerator programs. Despite the widespread recognition of the importance of coaching, there is a lack of knowledge of how the role of coaches in accelerators interacts with the lean start...
Source: Technovation - March 14, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
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Publication date: February–March 2019Source: Technovation, Volumes 80–81Author(s): (Source: Technovation)
Source: Technovation - March 5, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Second wind for exploitation: Pursuing high degrees of product and process innovativeness in mature industries
Publication date: Available online 28 February 2019Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Ksenia Onufrey, Anna BergekAbstractThis paper investigates to what extent and how an exploitation-oriented innovation logic can enable innovations characterised by a high degree of newness. The paper is based on an embedded case study of 11 innovation initiatives by the Swedish pulp and paper companies and uses a multi-dimensional framework that takes into account both product and process innovation dimensions as well as multiple stages in the value chain. The results show that the studied initiatives are characterised by new to the companies...
Source: Technovation - February 28, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Role of production in fostering innovation
Publication date: Available online 26 February 2019Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Wonsub Eum, Jeong-Dong LeeAbstractThis paper investigates whether production capabilities fostered the development of new technological capabilities at the national level. The authors adopt the concept of ‘product space’ and ‘technology space’ for network analysis, and analyze whether the current production capability in related technologies influences the future technological capability. The main comparative analysis is based on export data and international patent data from 1980 to 2005, and ALP (Algorithmic Links with Probabilities...
Source: Technovation - February 27, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Do technology entrepreneurship and external relationships always promote technology transfer? Evidence from Korean public research organizations
This study aims to investigate the effects of public research organizations' technology entrepreneurship and external relationships on technology transfer performance. The results show that the degree of public research organizations-industry collaboration has a negative effect on public research organizations’ spin-off creation but positive effects on their technology license agreements and licensing income. In addition, both organizational- and individual-level technology entrepreneurship positively affect public research organizations’ technology licensing income and, simultaneously, have a negative moderating effec...
Source: Technovation - February 27, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
How does academia influence Ph.D. entrepreneurship? New insights on the entrepreneurial university
Publication date: Available online 18 February 2019Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Alessandro Muscio, Laura RamaciottiAbstractThis work investigates the factors that affect the propensity of Ph.D. students to create their own firms. The paper uses data from the responses to 9062 questionnaires, administered in 2016 to Ph.D. students in Italy, focusing on five factors: the entrepreneurial environment; the existence of university policy frameworks dedicated to entrepreneurship; the degree of applicability of the doctoral research to an industry context; student-industry collaboration during the doctoral study period; inclusio...
Source: Technovation - February 19, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Exploring the effect of political borders on university-industry collaborative research performance: Evidence from China’s Guangdong province
Publication date: Available online 19 February 2019Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Guanghua Chen, Guoliang Yang, Feng He, Kaihua ChenAbstractThis paper investigates how political borders affect university-industry (U-I) collaborative research performance. It is hypothesised that cross- and within-regional political borders have an inhibitory effect on cross-border U-I collaborative research performance. The empirical research considers political borders and geographic distance to disentangle the border effect from the spatial distance effect based on a novel dataset comprising 681 U-I collaborative research projects in Chin...
Source: Technovation - February 19, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Is 3D printing an inclusive innovation?: An examination of 3D printing in Brazil
This study uses a new framework, the ladder of inclusive innovation, to analyze whether 3D printing is an inclusive innovation. The interviews with 3D printer users and innovators in Brazil show that 3D printers are not being used or purchased by marginalized communities because the technology is expensive, and it requires a steep learning curve. However, the technology is changing the process, structure, and post-structural discussions surrounding innovation for marginalized communities. Overall, there are aspects of 3D printing develop that are inclusive innovation, but there are significant barriers that prevent the tec...
Source: Technovation - January 9, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
