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 8, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Using web mining to explore Triple Helix influences on growth in small and mid-size firms
Publication date: Available online 15 January 2016Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Yin Li, Sanjay Arora, Jan Youtie, Philip ShapiraAbstractWhile broad “Triple Helix” frameworks of industry, government and university collaborations have the potential to enhance innovation and economic development at macro-levels, at the micro-level of the firm it should not be assumed that such relationships are uniform in character or outcomes. Each firm will negotiate and develop its own set of relationships with other innovation system actors based on its capabilities and strategies. To better understand these dynamics, particularly fr...
Source: Technovation - July 5, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Technology transfer executives' backwards integration: An examination of interactions between university technology transfer executives and principal investigators
Publication date: Available online 31 August 2016Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Conor O’KaneAbstractThis paper examines interactions between technology transfer office (TTO) executives and publicly funded principal investigators (PIs) within the university. Although both actors make important contributions to value creation at the base of the triple helix, their identities remain under development and their interactions have been the subject of little if any empirical inquiry. Drawing on identity transitions and role boundaries, we suggest that PIs’ forward integration in the innovation process and the persistence of s...
Source: Technovation - July 5, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
From boundary line to boundary space: The creation of hybrid organizations as a Triple Helix micro-foundation
Publication date: Available online 11 November 2017Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Claire Champenois, Henry EtzkowitzAbstractIn a Triple Helix framework, independent hybrid organizations can be created at the intersection of overlapping yet separate institutional spheres to address innovation blockages. However, the formation process of these organizations, which incorporate and combine elements from the Triple Helix spheres, has seldom been investigated. We address this gap by proposing a model that conceptualizes the creation process of these organizations. We argue that their creation opens up a “boundary space” that...
Source: Technovation - July 5, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Do research institutes benefit from their network positions in research collaboration networks with industries or/and universities?
Publication date: Available online 6 December 2017Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Kaihua Chen, Yi Zhang, Guilong Zhu, Rongping MuAbstractThere is scarce empirical evidence on the impact of inter-organizational collaboration across research institutes, industries or/and universities on the scientific performance of research institutes. This paper fills this gap by examining how the research institutes’ bilateral/trilateral collaborations with industries or/and universities influence their research outputs from a network perspective. We construct a unique dataset based on the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ inter-organizatio...
Source: Technovation - July 5, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Knowledge sharing in supply chain networks: Effects of collaborative innovation activities and capability on innovation performance
Publication date: Available online 16 December 2017Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Changfeng Wang, Qiying HuAbstractBuilding on knowledge management and innovation capability theories, this paper aims to reveal the mechanisms of collaborative innovation processes by investigating the complex relationships among critical factors influencing firm's innovation performance in supply chain networks. Using hierarchical Multiple Regression (MR) and Moderated Multiple Regression (MMR) methods, results from a survey of 236 firms in China indicated that there are significant positive relationships between collaborative innovation act...
Source: Technovation - July 5, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
The digital transformation of business models in the creative industries: A holistic framework and emerging trends
Publication date: Available online 5 January 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Feng LiAbstractThis paper examines how digital technologies facilitate business model innovations in the creative industries. Through a systematic literature review, a holistic business model framework is developed, which is then used to analyse the empirical evidence from the creative industries. The research found that digital technologies have facilitated pervasive changes in business models, and some significant trends have emerged. However, the reconfigured business models are often not ‘new’ in the unprecedented sense. Business model ...
Source: Technovation - July 5, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Bridging the gaps or fecklessness? A moderated mediating examination of intermediaries’ effects on corporate innovation
Publication date: Available online 3 March 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Han Lin, Saixing Zeng, Haijian Liu, Chao LiAbstractIntermediaries are frequently used as external institutions to bridge knowledge gaps and enlarge innovation search. Although there is a consensus that ties with intermediaries have a significantly positive impact on firms’ innovation performance since external knowledge sources are important to firms’ innovative activities, far less is known about how these intermediaries become effective drivers of corporate innovation. From the capacity-based view, this study proposes that intermediaries fa...
Source: Technovation - July 5, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
The microfoundations of firms’ explorative innovation capabilities within the triple helix framework
Publication date: Available online 12 March 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Paul Ryan, Will Geoghegan, Rachel HilliardAbstractIn this paper we show how the triple helix model provides an organising regime within which participant firms can extend their capabilities for explorative innovation through funded collaborations with academia. In so doing, we adopt Felin et al.’s multi-level framework to examine the microfoundations of participant firms’ capabilities for explorative innovation in university partnerships. In our qualitative case study of a set of research projects that comprise a national research programme,...
Source: Technovation - July 5, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
New approach to the innovation process in emerging economies: The manufacturing sector case in Chile and Peru
Publication date: Available online 13 March 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Jorge A. Heredia Pérez, Cristian Geldes, Martin H. Kunc, Alejandro FloresAbstractThis paper focuses on paths towards innovation and considers different types of innovation. It develops a new framework to analyze the internal and external factors that influence the types of innovation and their relationships with business performance in the manufacturing sector. A proposed theoretical model is tested and used to evaluate the process of innovation by country (Peru and Chile) and companies by size, type of industry, financial aspects and level of ...
Source: Technovation - July 5, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
University capability as a micro-foundation for the Triple Helix model: The case of China
Publication date: Available online 14 March 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Yipeng Liu, Qihai HuangAbstractBy articulating the notion of university capability by distinguishing resources and capabilities, this paper aims to advance our understanding of the Triple Helix model from a micro-foundational perspective. From an external evaluative viewpoint, we suggest that university capability consists of (1) resource bases, (2) motivation/objectives, (3) resource allocation and coordination mechanisms, and (4) regional outcomes. Based on qualitative data collected from two leading Chinese cities in innovation and regional d...
Source: Technovation - July 5, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Partner selection and university-industry linkages: Assessing small firms' initial perceptions of the credibility of their partners
Publication date: Available online 20 March 2018Source: TechnovationAuthor(s): Andrew Johnston, Robert HugginsAbstractAs promoting the engagement of firms and universities through collaborative linkages gathers pace among policymakers, it appears to be pertinent to examine in more detail the mechanisms that underpin their formation. This paper examines the processes by which small firms assess the credibility of their potential partner when engaging in collaborative links with universities. Here, credibility is defined as the ability to deliver the promised knowledge and experience of a particular field when entering into ...
Source: Technovation - July 5, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
How to improve a technology evaluation model: A data-driven approach
Publication date: April–May 2018Source: Technovation, Volumes 72–73Author(s): Heeyong Noh, Ju-Hwan Seo, Hyoung Sun Yoo, Sungjoo LeeAbstractAcademic research suggests a number of technology evaluation models. To ensure effective use, models need to be improved in accordance with changing internal and external environments. However, a majority of previous studies focus on model development, while a few emphasize their implementation or improvement. To fill this research gap, this study suggests a systematic approach to examining the validity of technology evaluation models and improving them. We consider three propositio...
Source: Technovation - July 5, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
The path to outcome delivery: Interplay of service market strategy and open business models
Publication date: April–May 2018Source: Technovation, Volumes 72–73Author(s): Ivanka Visnjic, Andy Neely, Marin JovanovicAbstractFirms in a variety of manufacturing sectors as well as the software industry have increasingly embraced services alongside their product portfolios in order to improve financial performance. Yet, the key question “How do service market strategy change and the accompanying business model change interact, and how does their interplay affect value creation?” remains open. Relying on twelve case studies of firms that have shifted towards providing highly advanced services (e.g. outcome-based ...
Source: Technovation - July 5, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
The timing of trademark application in innovation processes
Publication date: April–May 2018Source: Technovation, Volumes 72–73Author(s): Marcel Seip, Carolina Castaldi, Meindert Flikkema, Ard-Pieter De ManAbstractAn emerging stream of literature is studying the extent to which trademarks can be used to measure innovation. The picture of the usefulness of trademarks for innovation studies, however, is far from complete. Starting with cues from the patent literature, this paper studies the relationship between the timing of trademark applications and innovation. The trademark literature provides competing predictions on whether companies apply for trademarks early or late in the...
Source: Technovation - July 5, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
