Learning from crisis: repurposing to address grand challenges

IF 1.4 Q3 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Innovation and Development Pub Date : 2021-05-25 DOI:10.1080/2157930X.2021.1930397

Fakher Omezzine, Vidya Oruganti, I. B. Bodas Freitas

引用次数: 4

Abstract

ABSTRACT We highlight that institutions may encourage or discourage organizations to engage in the repurposing of technologies and value chain linkages for attaining financial goals and responding to social needs and challenges. Based on evidence from several examples of repurposing and collective action during the recent COVID-19 health crisis, we try to learn and infer, how institutions can create an environment that fosters repurposing beyond crisis situations. Our evidence, accordant to Chris Freeman's argument on the success of nations to catch up and maintain technological and trade competitiveness, suggest that multiple institutional factors may influence a country's ability to design and implement solutions through technological repurposing. We discuss the implications of this result and future research directions.

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从危机中学习:重新定位以应对重大挑战

我们强调，制度可以鼓励或阻碍组织参与技术和价值链联系的再利用，以实现财务目标，应对社会需求和挑战。根据最近COVID-19卫生危机期间重新利用和集体行动的几个例子的证据，我们试图学习和推断机构如何创造一种环境，促进在危机情况下重新利用。根据克里斯·弗里曼(Chris Freeman)关于国家成功赶上并保持技术和贸易竞争力的论点，我们的证据表明，多种制度因素可能会影响一个国家通过技术再利用设计和实施解决方案的能力。我们讨论了这一结果的意义和未来的研究方向。

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Innovation and Development Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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3.70

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期刊介绍： conomic development and growth depend as much on social innovations as on technological advances. However, the discourse has often been confined to technological innovations in the industrial sector, with insufficient attention being paid to institutional and organisational change and to the informal sector which in some countries in the South plays a significant role. Innovation and Development is an interdisciplinary journal that adopts a broad approach to the study of innovation, in all sectors of the economy and sections of society, furthering understanding of the multidimensional process of innovation and development. It provides a forum for the discussion of issues pertaining to innovation, development and their interaction, both in the developed and developing world, with the aim of encouraging sustainable and inclusive growth. The journal encourages articles that approach the problem broadly in line with innovation system perspective focusing on the evolutionary and institutional structure of innovation and development. This focus cuts across the disciplines of Economics, Sociology, Political Science, Science and Technology Policy, Geography and Development Practice. In a section entitled Innovation in Practice, the journal includes short reports on innovative experiments with proven development impact with a view to encouraging scholars to undertake systematic inquiries on such experiments. Brief abstracts of degree awarded PhD theses in the broad area of concern for the journal and brief notes which highlight innovative ways of using internet resources and new databases or software are also published.