{"title":"Digital manufacturing and innovation","authors":"Michael A. Stanko, Aric Rindfleisch","doi":"10.1111/jpim.12686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12686","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Over the past decade, manufacturing has become increasingly digitized via an array of new technological developments. This digitization is transforming the way products are designed, created and consumed. However, relatively little is known about the impact of digital manufacturing upon innovation management. This special issue on Digital Manufacturing and Product Innovation begins to address this deficit via a collection of seven articles. Collectively, these articles cover a broad range of innovation-related topics, ranging from digital twins to corporate makerspaces. In this opening article, we provide a brief overview of digital manufacturing and its relation to innovation, a review of prior research in this domain, a summary of the articles in this special issue, and an agenda for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":16900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Product Innovation Management","volume":"40 4","pages":"407-432"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50147388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Erratum to “This is what you came for? University–industry collaborations and follow-on inventions by the firm”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/jpim.12664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12664","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Anckaert, Paul-Emmanuel, and Peeters, Hanne. 2023. “This is What You Came For? University–Industry Collaborations and Follow-On Inventions by the Firm.” <i>Journal of Product Innovation Management</i> 40(1): 58–85. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12650</p><p>In Volume 40, Number 1, there were unintended errors on pages 73 and 84. In Tables 4 and 5, the row “Applicant and technology contribution” should be “Applicant and technology controls.”</p><p>Finally, in Table A3, the words “No university technology and university science” and “No firm technology and firm science” should be “University science and no university technology” and “Firm science and no firm technology,” respectively.</p><p>The publisher apologizes for the error.</p>","PeriodicalId":16900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Product Innovation Management","volume":"40 4","pages":"577"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpim.12664","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50147796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Editors: Engaging with generative artificial intelligence technologies in innovation management research—Some answers and more questions","authors":"Jelena Spanjol, Charles H. Noble","doi":"10.1111/jpim.12689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12689","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Product Innovation Management","volume":"40 4","pages":"383-390"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50138934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lukas Falcke, Ann-Kristin Zobel, Stephen D. Comello
{"title":"How firms realign to tackle the grand challenge of climate change: An innovation ecosystems perspective","authors":"Lukas Falcke, Ann-Kristin Zobel, Stephen D. Comello","doi":"10.1111/jpim.12687","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpim.12687","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates how, why, and under which conditions incumbents and new entrants realign in innovation ecosystems to collectively tackle the grand challenge (GC) of climate change. The discussion on innovation and GCs is still lacking sufficient theoretical underpinnings and empirical insights to make sense of the role of for-profit firms and their collaborative innovation efforts to address the GCs of our times. We introduce innovation ecosystems as a theoretical lens for understanding the combinations of technological interfaces and strategic relations that firms can employ to craft value propositions with high potential for tackling GCs. Empirically, this study focuses on the GC of climate change that requires a transformation of the electricity sector. We investigate collaborative pilot projects between 10 international electric utilities and 57 clean-tech startups. In these pilots, incumbents and new entrants explore low-carbon value propositions through novel technological interfaces and strategic relations. Via qualitative comparative analysis, we identify three configurations of ecosystem realignment with high climate impact: an incumbent-led digital platform realignment, a device complementor and customer-enabling realignment, and a new orchestrator realignment. Based on a multiple case analysis, we uncover three innovation mechanisms that explain why these specific configurations unlock climate impact: they enhance resource efficiency, the flexibility and resilience of infrastructure, and the trading and leveraging of information and resources. On this basis, we contribute to the literature at the intersection of innovation management and GCs by developing theory that explicates (1) how the realignment of incumbents and startups in innovation ecosystems changes existing industry structures; (2) why specific configurations of such ecosystems are associated with high climate impact and are thus effective in addressing GCs; and (3) the boundary conditions under which collective innovation efforts in ecosystems can translate into climate impact.</p>","PeriodicalId":16900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Product Innovation Management","volume":"41 2","pages":"403-427"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpim.12687","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86146865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Board political ideological diversity and information exposure as antecedents to value creation and value appropriation","authors":"Kerry Hudson, Robert E. Morgan","doi":"10.1111/jpim.12688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12688","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Strategic emphasis is a critical decision reflecting a firm's relative proclivity toward value creation versus value appropriation. Despite the increasing role of the board in setting the strategic priorities of firms, there is a dearth of research examining board-level influences on strategic emphasis. Drawing on the cognitive perspective of corporate governance, we posit that exposure to external information via board interlocks provides competing incentives to pursue value creation and value appropriation strategies. We hypothesize that political ideological diversity among directors facilitates the utilization of external information for novel purposes, thus increasing firms' value creation focus. Combining data on directors' political ideologies with network analysis, we test these hypotheses in 584 large U.S. firms between 2000 and 2018. We find that political ideological diversity influences strategic emphasis both directly and in interaction with board interlock network centrality: politically ideological diverse boards exhibit a greater focus on value creation, and this effect is strengthened when the board is well connected to others. These results have implications for the director selection process, and for executives advocating for value creation strategies and the requisite R&D investments under differing conditions of board composition and information exposure.</p>","PeriodicalId":16900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Product Innovation Management","volume":"40 6","pages":"836-858"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50132679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where digital meets physical innovation: Reverse salients and the unrealized dreams of 3D printing","authors":"Thierry Rayna, Joel West","doi":"10.1111/jpim.12681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12681","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For more than three decades, enthusiasts have predicted that direct manufacturing enabled by 3D printing would inevitably supplant traditional manufacturing methods. Alas, for nearly as long, these utopian predictions have failed to materialize. One reason is a flawed assumption that hybrid digital-physical systems such as 3D printing would advance as rapidly as purely digital innovations enabled by Moore's law. Instead, like other examples of cyber-physical systems (CPSs), technological progress in 3D printing faces inherent limitations that are emblematic of the differences between CPSs and purely digital innovations. As with any complex CPS, improved performance of a 3D printing system has been limited by that of its key components—the sort of limiting problem previously defined as a reverse salient. Unlike previously studied technologies, several reverse salients for 3D printing performance have neither resolved nor signs of resolving soon. Here we analyze these key reverse salients, and show how they have hampered the suitability of 3D printing for direct manufacturing and other predicted applications. We contrast predicted versus actual capabilities for 3D printing-enabled transformation in six key areas: product innovation, mass customization, home fabrication, distributed manufacturing, supply chain optimization and business model innovation. From this, we suggest opportunities for greater realism in future 3D printing research, as well as broader implications for our understanding of CPSs and reverse salients.</p>","PeriodicalId":16900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Product Innovation Management","volume":"40 4","pages":"530-553"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpim.12681","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50126425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 2022 PDMA Doctoral Consortium: Emerging research priorities in new product development and innovation and insights into community building","authors":"Yazhen Xiao, Neeraj Bharadwaj","doi":"10.1111/jpim.12683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12683","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In July 2022, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK) hosted the fifth Product Development Management Association (PDMA) Doctoral Consortium. As a critical vehicle to promote doctoral student research and scholarly networking, this consortium featured emerging research topics on new product development (NPD) and innovation by promising doctoral students and leading scholars, provided exposure to cutting-edge practice in additive manufacturing, and facilitated opportunities for the NPD and innovation research community building. This article summarizes key insights and synthesizes important research topics emerging from the event.</p>","PeriodicalId":16900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Product Innovation Management","volume":"40 5","pages":"582-592"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpim.12683","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50126289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building design as a dynamic capability: A model for design integration","authors":"Julie Sahakian, Sihem BenMahmoud Jouini","doi":"10.1111/jpim.12674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12674","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A growing number of firms have integrated design in order to foster innovation and growth. Recent literature acknowledges design as a capability leading to differentiation and competitive advantage. However, how such a capability is built within companies with no past experience in design has not been fully addressed. Our objective is to bridge this gap. Indeed, most existing contributions focus on <i>design</i> intervention, that is, using design in projects, rather than <i>design</i> integration, that is, its systematic use and long-term engagement as an embedded practice in the organization. Based on a longitudinal case study of an insurance company, complemented with an investigation of five other firms from other sectors, we offer a model for building design as a dynamic capability: Triggered by <i>strategic orientations</i>, firms acquire design <i>resources</i> and <i>deploy</i> them in <i>activities</i> such as projects in order to produce <i>tangible results</i>. <i>Capitalizing</i> on what they have learned in these projects, they progressively consolidate this knowledge in an <i>expertise</i>, which is then shared and <i>diffused</i>, thereby renewing the firm's resources. Therefore, our model highlights a reinforcement dimension: In addition to an operational capability (designing, spreading, and managing design), it is also a regenerative capability that consists in building the design expertise, advocating for it, anchoring, and renewing it. We thus have two contributions: (i) We conceptualize design as a dynamic capability enabling the development of new offerings, processes, and strategies that lead to organizations' competitiveness and transformation, and (ii) we propose a model for building such a capability.</p>","PeriodicalId":16900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Product Innovation Management","volume":"40 5","pages":"733-758"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50122944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marc van Dyck, Dirk Lüttgens, Frank T. Piller, Sebastian Brenk
{"title":"Interconnected digital twins and the future of digital manufacturing: Insights from a Delphi study","authors":"Marc van Dyck, Dirk Lüttgens, Frank T. Piller, Sebastian Brenk","doi":"10.1111/jpim.12685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12685","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Digital twins (DTs) are virtual representations of real-world entities like production assets, processes, or products. They are updated at a defined fidelity and frequency along the entire life cycle from development and engineering over the production or implementation of a product or process until its usage stage. Interconnected digital twins (IDTs) are DTs shared and connected across organizations with the objective to create holistic simulation and decision models of an entire physical system. In this paper, we investigate how IDTs shape future digital manufacturing scenarios and impact innovation management. We present the results of a real-time Delphi study, analyzing quantitative and qualitative estimates on a set of 24 projections, forecasting the future of digital manufacturing with a projection horizon towards 2030. Using this data and 22 additional use cases of IDTs in manufacturing companies, we present a baseline scenario where our Delphi panel reached a consensus, representing a likely future of digital manufacturing in 2030. By analyzing projections where our expert panels' evaluations vary widely, we identify key design decisions that may impact innovation management along the dimensions of variation, choice, and control in digital manufacturing. We explain how IDTs will impact external knowledge inflows, the emergence and governance of industrial data spaces, and the potential of data-driven and AI-enabled applications for prediction and regulation to drive better decision-making and continuous innovation.</p>","PeriodicalId":16900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Product Innovation Management","volume":"40 4","pages":"475-505"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpim.12685","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50120709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colin Schulz, Sebastian Kortmann, Frank T. Piller, Patrick Pollok
{"title":"Growing with smart products: Why customization capabilities matter for manufacturing firms","authors":"Colin Schulz, Sebastian Kortmann, Frank T. Piller, Patrick Pollok","doi":"10.1111/jpim.12680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12680","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Manufacturing firms that engage in digital transformation develop increasingly smarter versions of their tangible products to reinvigorate growth in shrinking markets. However, they often struggle with translating their investments in digitalization capabilities into actual returns in the form of sales growth. The associated technological advantages often remain unexploited, and digital product innovations frequently fail. Building on the resource-based view of the firm and the demand-side perspective, we theorize that there is a need for complementary capabilities that integrate heterogeneous customer demands, thus, allowing firms to capture more value from smart products. We empirically investigate the mediating role of smart customization capability on the relationship between digitalization capabilities and sales growth. Moreover, we argue that this relationship is further strengthened by integrating information and data across sales and service channels (i.e., channel integration). We test and find support for our hypotheses based on a dataset comprising survey and archival data of 136 smart product manufacturers in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. In doing so, we enhance the theoretical understanding of resource and capability configurations needed for digital transformation in general and smart product success in particular. We further update the traditional concept of mass customization by showing how customization with smart products helps manufacturing firms provide personalized solutions at scale.</p>","PeriodicalId":16900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Product Innovation Management","volume":"40 6","pages":"794-816"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpim.12680","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50147563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}