Effective use of 3D printing in the innovation process
Publication date: Available online 7 June 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Marina Candi, Ahmad BeltaguiAbstractThree-dimensional printing (3DP) is touted as a core element of a new industrial revolution, in which digitization, information and connectivity transform product innovation. However, while the purported benefits of 3DP are compelling, existing research suggests that the expected benefits of advanced manufacturing technologies are rarely realized in practice. This research addresses the timely question of how to make effective use of a new digital technology. A theoretical framework based on Resource Orchestrati...
Source: Technovation - July 11, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Crisis management in new product development: A tale of two stories
Publication date: Available online 8 June 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Yassir M. Samra, Haisu Zhang, Gary S. Lynn, Richard R. ReillyAbstractThis research examines how firms manage crises in new product development (NPD), and suggests that a high level of perceived crisis can result in better new product performance. In addition, the role of team communication is underlined in the relationship between perceived crisis and new product performance. Team communication is categorized into two types: formal vs. informal, each playing a distinct role in crisis management. More importantly, this study argues that there exist...
Source: Technovation - July 11, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Ownership in the virtual world and the implications for long-term user innovation success
Publication date: Available online 12 June 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Michael Zhou, Mark A.A.M. Leenders, Ling Mei CongAbstractVirtual worlds have become an arena for user-generated innovation enabling a new wave of entrepreneurs to extract real world value from virtual property. Interestingly, virtual world property and revenue generation are understudied and the concept of ownership in the metaverse is distinct and more complex than in the real world. In this article, virtual user innovation and ownership are conceptualized in two layers: (1) the content, and (2) the virtual platform. In-depth case studies of vir...
Source: Technovation - July 11, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
An enforced loop-out knowledge flow facilitates industry competition: Learning from the pharmaceutical and genetically modified seed industries
Publication date: Available online 21 June 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Ching-Wen Chang, Takayuki Yamanaka, Shingo KanoAbstractMaintaining industry diversity and avoiding oligopolistic market structures are important issues for governments. To facilitate launching generic products, the US government has established special policies for the country's pharmaceutical industry, namely, the Orange Book, the Bolar Amendment, and the ANDA procedure, which this study regards as an essential policy package. The three policies are functionally generalized and combined with a corporate knowledge cycle to construct a “policy-e...
Source: Technovation - July 11, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Overcoming equivocality on projects in the fuzzy front end: Bringing social networks back in
This study employs a social networks perspective to understand how different types of informal work-based relations and their structural properties affect equivocality on project teams in the FFE. In particular, it examines the structural effects of two types of social relations and their associated networks—those of technical-advice and friendship ties. The findings suggest that while high density in projects’ technical-advice network is likely to reduce equivocality, high density in projects’ friendship network is likely to increase it. More interestingly, having multiple members on projects who are highly central ...
Source: Technovation - July 11, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
University technology transfer office business models: One size does not fit all
This study contributes to the emergent literature on university business models and provides suggestions to policymakers to incorporate a business model typology in university evaluation programs. (Source: Technovation)
Source: Technovation - July 11, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Collaborative modes with Cultural and Creative Industries and innovation performance: The moderating role of heterogeneous sources of knowledge and absorptive capacity
Publication date: Available online 22 June 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Gabriele Santoro, Stefano Bresciani, Armando PapaAbstractOrganizations can no longer be isolated entities in the current dynamic competitive environment but tend to establish alliances and networks with external parties. Recently, research has suggested that organizations develop collaborative modes with Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) to acquire and combine Heterogeneous Sources of Knowledge (HSK) within their organizational environment. Innovation thus becomes increasingly generated by a cross-process involving a diverse set of industri...
Source: Technovation - July 11, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Anticipating technological convergence: Link prediction using Wikipedia hyperlinks
This study proposes a systematic approach to anticipating technological convergence that can be used to guide organisations towards reacting in a timely manner to challenges posed by increasingly permeable technology boundaries. For this, a technological ecology network is constructed using direct and indirect hyperlinks extracted from the Wikipedia database, and link prediction methods are employed to develop three predictive indicators of technological convergence. A case of 3D printing technology confirms, with statistically significant outcomes, that the proposed approach enables a wide-ranging search for future conver...
Source: Technovation - July 11, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
When technology shapes community in the Cultural and Craft Industries: Understanding virtual entrepreneurship in online ecosystems
Publication date: Available online 28 June 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Vallari Chandna, Manjula S. SalimathAbstractWith the aim of providing greater insight into the nature and dynamics of the online entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Cultural and Craft Industries (CCIs), this study investigated the novel interactions taking place among virtual entrepreneurial firms operating in a relatively new technological context i.e. cybermediary platforms. It is argued that the technologically enabled connectivity offered by these platforms helps foster a distinctive sense of virtual community. Connectivity with users and peer-f...
Source: Technovation - July 11, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Open innovation/integration versus disintermediation/disintegration
Publication date: Available online 29 June 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Jonathan D. LintonAbstractSupply chain disintegration is considered, due to its importance as an enabler for the management of technology innovation. This research is urgent as it is relevant to a wide range of other occurrences outside of technology innovation management, including: major policy or regulatory changes, industrial actions, economic sanctions, trade wars, trade realignment – such as Brexit, natural disasters, civil disorder and conflict, and financial crises. Disintegration is the re-alignment of partners and coordination within ...
Source: Technovation - July 11, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Innovation in cultural and creative industries firms with an academic origin (CCI-USOs): The role of regional context
Publication date: Available online 3 July 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): María Jesús Rodríguez-Gulías, Sara Fernández-López, David Rodeiro-PazosAbstractPrevious literature has focused on either the direct or indirect contribution of cultural and creative industries (CCI) firms to the innovation capability of the wider economy, while the reverse approach, that is, the effect of region on CCI firms’ innovation, has been completely neglected. In this paper, it is argued that the innovative performance of CCI firms with an academic origin (CCI-USOs) may be influenced by the regional context where they operate. In s...
Source: Technovation - July 11, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Innovation indicators throughout the innovation process: An extensive literature analysis
The objective of this article is to increase the understanding of the indicator landscape and to complement the various stages of the innovation process with relevant indicators. In doing so, this study categorizes the identified indicators into company-specific and contextual dimensions. Furthermore, this study analyzes the indicators in terms of their potential for ex-ante and ex-post evaluation and investigates the characteristics of relevant publications. The analysis finds that more process rather than product indicators exist in the literature. Current publications emphasize qualitative and indirect indicators but ne...
Source: Technovation - July 11, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
The technology transfer ecosystem in academia. An organizational design perspective
Publication date: Available online 9 July 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Matthew Good, Mirjam Knockaert, Birthe Soppe, Mike WrightAbstractUniversity technology transfer has emerged as an important and standalone research field over the past few decades. Given the great challenges that are involved with transferring science to the market, many universities have established technology transfer offices, science parks, incubators, and university venture funds – an organizational assemblage labelled the technology transfer (TT) ecosystem. By reviewing the extant literature on the TT ecosystem and its components, this pape...
Source: Technovation - July 11, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
DNA of the Triple Helix: Introduction to the special issue
Publication date: Available online 10 July 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Jonathan D. LintonAbstractThe introduction to this special issue considers the growing importance of the interaction between government, industry and academe for supporting a growing emphasis on University's third mission – supporting and contributing to economic and social regional improvements. Six papers are introduced and a number of questions are offered to direct and encourage further research. (Source: Technovation)
Source: Technovation - July 11, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
The technology transfer ecosystem in academia. An organizational design perspective
Publication date: Available online 9 July 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Matthew Good, Mirjam Knockaert, Birthe Soppe, Mike WrightAbstractUniversity technology transfer has emerged as an important and standalone research field over the past few decades. Given the great challenges that are involved with transferring science to the market, many universities have established technology transfer offices, science parks, incubators, and university venture funds – an organizational assemblage labelled the technology transfer (TT) ecosystem. By reviewing the extant literature on the TT ecosystem and its components, this pape...
Source: Technovation - July 10, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
