Effects of business and political ties on product innovation performance: Evidence from China and India
This study investigates the joint effects of business and political ties, cognitive capital, and institutional support on product innovation performance in China and India. The hypotheses are empirically tested using bootstrap and multiple group structural equation modeling methods, and data collected from 300 Chinese and 200 Indian manufacturers. The results reveal that cognitive capital mediates business ties’ impacts on product innovation performance in both China and India and that institutional support mediates the effects of business and political ties on product innovation performance only in China. The study also...
Source: Technovation - January 3, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
The innovative fulcrums of technological interdisciplinarity: An analysis of technology fields in patents
This study examines the patents in the USPTO database from 2001 to 2014 that identifies unique structural configurations of various technology fields. The study result finds the brokerage of technological positions perform an innovative fulcrum for interdisciplinary innovation, strategizing several important innovative capabilities. Furthermore, the technological embeddedness incubates innovative capacity; technological push and pull promotes the process of endogenous, exogenous, and heterogeneous innovation and technological evolution. Therefore, this study addresses implications to both theory and practice in sustaining ...
Source: Technovation - December 27, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Determining factors of interregional research collaboration in Germany's biotech network: Capacity, proximity, policy?
Publication date: Available online 19 December 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Timo Mitze, Falk StrotebeckAbstractThis paper analyses the determinants of link formation in Germany's biotech research network. Given the significance of regional clusters in the national biotech landscape, the modeling framework adopts a regional perspective and uses small-scale NUTS3 regions as nodes of the national biotech network. Linkages between nodes are measured by the number of active research collaborations between biotech actors located in these regions. The degree of the interregional collaboration activity between regional nodes...
Source: Technovation - December 20, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Dynamic capabilities, creativity and innovation capability and their impact on competitive advantage and firm performance: The moderating role of entrepreneurial orientation
Publication date: Available online 12 December 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Jorge Ferreira, Arnaldo Coelho, Luiz MoutinhoAbstractSome scholars hold that dynamic capability (hereinafter DC) is one of the keys to achieving competitive advantage (hereinafter CA) and consequently, performance in strategic management. However, the definition and effects of DCs and the role of environmental dynamism are still under discussion. In the context of a Portuguese-like economy and from a strategic process perspective, this study defines dynamic capability as the potential to systematically solve problems, enabled by its propensit...
Source: Technovation - December 13, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
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Source: Technovation - December 11, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
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Publication date: January 2019Source: Technovation, Volume 79Author(s): (Source: Technovation)
Source: Technovation - December 11, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
The Ratatouille paradox. An inductive study of creativity in haute cuisine
Publication date: Available online 29 November 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Ludovica LeoneAbstractOrganization literature has extensively explored the crucial role of creativity in enabling organizations to survive in fast-paced environments. However, there are still substantial misunderstandings about the way in which creative processes unfold. In most studies, creativity has been analyzed using a compositional sequential model. Building on interpretive inductive research, conducted in the empirical field of Italian haute cuisine, this study develops a framework for the following creative processes, emerging within ...
Source: Technovation - November 30, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
The more funding the better? The moderating role of knowledge stock on the effects of different government-funded research projects on firm innovation in Chinese cultural and creative industries
Publication date: Available online 29 November 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Jianghua Zhou, Jizhen Li, Hao Jiao, Hang Qiu, Zixu LiuAbstractBased on prior research, this study attempts to examine how effectively government-funded research projects (GFPs) can facilitate firm innovation in the cultural and creative industry (CCI), as well as the internal organizational contingency associated with the effects of GFPs. Specifically, this paper differentiates two types of GFP -- central-government-funded projects (CGFPs) and local-government-funded research projects (LGFPs) -- and explore how effectively the two types of GF...
Source: Technovation - November 30, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
The growing importance of research methods in innovation management research: A note from the 2018 ISPIM Innovation Conference
Publication date: Available online 29 September 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Steffen Conn, Paavo Ritala (Source: Technovation)
Source: Technovation - October 5, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
A new framework to assess industry convergence in high technology environments
Publication date: Available online 22 August 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Nathalie Sick, Nina Preschitschek, Jens Leker, Stefanie BröringAbstractThe process of convergence, from science and technology convergence to that of markets as well as entire industries can be witnessed in a range of different high technology environments such as IT and NanoBiotech. Although this phenomenon has been subject of analysis in an increasing number of studies, the notion of industry convergence – the final step of a full convergence process - still lacks a common definition. The missing conceptual definition of what industry conv...
Source: Technovation - August 23, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Do business incubators really enhance entrepreneurial growth? Evidence from a large sample of innovative Italian start-ups
This study examines the short-term and long-term effects of business incubators on the performance of innovative start-ups in terms of sales revenues and job creation. A large sample of N = 2544 innovative Italian start-ups, of which 606 were incubated, was followed over a period of up to six years. Tobit and Poisson regressions and propensity-score matching analyses point towards a significant negative effect of incubator tenancy on sales revenues and no significant effect of incubation on job creation. Findings also suggest that the initially negative effect of incubation on sales revenues turns into a positive effec...
Source: Technovation - August 4, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
How interface formats gain market acceptance: The role of developers and format characteristics in the development of de facto standards
Publication date: Available online 2 August 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Sujan M. DanAbstractNew product introductions often rely on formats and technologies that are subject to strongly contested standards wars. Using a unique data set of interface formats and standard setting ventures in the consumer electronics industry, this research examines the relationships between the characteristics of standard setting ventures, and the market acceptance of interface formats developed and promoted by the venture. Specifically, this paper focuses on the firms that develop and introduce the format. Results indicate that the re...
Source: Technovation - August 3, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Sources of appropriation capacity in licensing agreements
This study shows that companies with cash constraints appropriate fewer benefits from licensing than do companies that have a ready cash flow (0.87% vs. 2.84%). If companies license out under low information asymmetries (same sector), they also appropriate more benefits from licensing than do companies facing high information asymmetries (different sector) (7.27% vs. 1.53%). Finally, licensors that are leaders appropriate fewer benefits than those that are followers (0.61% vs. 3.86%). (Source: Technovation)
Source: Technovation - August 2, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Leveraging learning forces in asymmetric alliances: Small firms’ perceived power imbalance in driving exploration and exploitation
This study investigates the joint effects of two types of perceived power—capability-driven power and position-driven power—on exploration versus exploitation in asymmetric alliances. Using a sample of 205 high-technology firms in China, the analyses suggest that each of the two types of perceived power separately has no direct effects on either exploration or exploitation. However, they complement (multiplicative effects) each other in promoting exploitation and exploration. Interestingly, the balanced effect of perceived position-driven power and perceived capability-driven power is positively related to exploration,...
Source: Technovation - July 27, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Open innovation and the evaluation of internet-enabled public services in smart cities
This article is focused on public service innovation from an innovation management perspective. It presents research experience gained from a European project for managing social and technological innovation in the production and evaluation of citizen-centred internet-enabled services in the public sector. It is based on six urban pilot initiatives, which sought to operationalise a new approach to co-producing and co-evaluating civic services in smart cities – commonly referred to as open innovation for smart city services. Research suggests that the evidence base underpinning this approach is not sufficiently robust to ...
Source: Technovation - July 27, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
