Looking to the old to understand the new – insights on how innovation ecosystems can leverage off innovation systems

IF 1.4 Q3 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Innovation and Development Pub Date : 2021-05-27 DOI:10.1080/2157930X.2021.1930399

C. Ngongoni

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Pegging similar research constructs against each other is the usual norm where different streams of thought aim to seek validation and claim space in scholarship. Nevertheless, with the rapid rate of innovation and interaction globally, developing a construct solely on its own merit sometimes can be futile though enlightening. This is the dilemma I was faced with whilst undertaking my doctoral study which was aimed at understanding various facets of Innovation Ecosystems. Leveraging off Christopher Freeman’s supposition of learning from the old to inform the new helped my thought processes. Firstly, I looked to Innovation Systems research to assist in understanding functional activities that occur in Innovation Ecosystems. Secondly, I applied the same perspective when it comes to selecting cases that I analysed in the study. The overall aim of this reflective piece is to exemplify how one construct can always learn from another to morph from just being theoretical to being practical.

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以老见新——洞悉创新生态系统如何利用创新系统

将相似的研究结构相互挂钩是通常的规范，不同的思想流旨在寻求验证并在学术中占据空间。然而，随着全球创新和互动的快速发展，仅凭自身优点发展一种结构有时可能是徒劳的，尽管它具有启发性。这是我在进行旨在理解创新生态系统各个方面的博士研究时所面临的困境。利用克里斯托弗·弗里曼(Christopher Freeman)的假设，即从旧的东西中学到新的东西，这有助于我的思维过程。首先，我着眼于创新系统研究，以帮助理解创新生态系统中发生的功能活动。其次，在选择我在研究中分析的案例时，我运用了同样的视角。这篇反思文章的总体目标是举例说明一个结构如何总是可以从另一个结构中学习，从理论转变为实践。

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Innovation and Development Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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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.