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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 2018 Source:Technovation Author(s): María Jesús Rodríguez-Gulías, Sara Fernández-López, David Rodeiro-Pazos Previous 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 so...
Source: Technovation - July 4, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Open innovation/integration versus disintermediation/disintegration
Publication date: Available online 29 June 2018 Source:Technovation Author(s): Jonathan D. Linton Supply 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 a s...
Source: Technovation - June 30, 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 - June 29, 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 2018 Source:Technovation Author(s): Vallari Chandna, Manjula S. Salimath With 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-fir...
Source: Technovation - June 29, 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 2018 Source:Technovation Author(s): Gabriele Santoro, Stefano Bresciani, Armando Papa Organizations 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 industrie...
Source: Technovation - June 22, 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 - June 22, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
