An enforced loop-out knowledge flow facilitates industry competition: Learning from the pharmaceutical and genetically modified seed industries
Publication date: Available online 21 June 2018 Source:Technovation Author(s): Ching-Wen Chang, Takayuki Yamanaka, Shingo Kano Maintaining 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-en...
Source: Technovation - June 21, 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 - June 21, 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 2018 Source:Technovation Author(s): Michael Zhou, Mark A.A.M. Leenders, Ling Mei Cong Virtual 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 virt...
Source: Technovation - June 12, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Effective use of 3D printing in the innovation process
Publication date: Available online 7 June 2018 Source:Technovation Author(s): Marina Candi, Ahmad Beltagui Three-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 Orchestration...
Source: Technovation - June 8, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
Crisis management in new product development: A tale of two stories
Publication date: Available online 8 June 2018 Source:Technovation Author(s): Yassir Samra, Haisu Zhang, Gary S. Lynn, Richard R. Reilly This 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 du...
Source: Technovation - June 8, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: research
