R&D ManagementPub Date : 2021-11-25DOI: 10.1111/radm.12517
F. Asplund, Jennie Björk, M. Magnusson
{"title":"Knowing too much? On bias due to domain‐specific knowledge in internal crowdsourcing for explorative ideas","authors":"F. Asplund, Jennie Björk, M. Magnusson","doi":"10.1111/radm.12517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12517","url":null,"abstract":"Internal crowdsourcing utilizes a firm’s employees, of which many have a strong understanding of the domains in which the firm operates, for contributing with, developing and evaluating ideas. On the one hand, these employees can use their domain-specific knowledge to identify the value of what may seem a far-fetched solution to the average employee. On the other hand, previous research has shown that employees typically evaluate ideas in their domains less favorably if they do not align with ongoing exploitation activities. Hence, this study focuses on whether a higher degree of relevant domain-specific knowledge makes employees participating in internal crowdsourcing prefer exploitative solutions when evaluating ideas. An empirical study of an online platform for firm-internal innovation in a multinational engineering company showed that employees who only infrequently participated in internal crowdsourcing mostly contributed to and evaluated ideas within their own domain. Employees who frequently participated also contributed to and evaluated ideas outside their own domains. By statistically analyzing group differences during idea evaluation, we show that employees participating infrequently favor exploitable solutions, whereas employees participating frequently are more uncertain. The former difference is only seen concerning ideas that require domain-specific knowledge to understand, but the latter is observed for all types of ideas. This study makes three substantial contributions. First, employees with domain-specific knowledge, through their preference for exploita-tive solutions, bias the outcome of internal crowdsourcing when idea evaluation requires domain-specific knowledge. Second, this bias is aggravated by the overall higher level of uncertainty displayed by employees participating frequently in internal crowdsourcing and thereby tend to reach out to other domains.","PeriodicalId":21040,"journal":{"name":"R&D Management","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87664522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R&D ManagementPub Date : 2021-11-25DOI: 10.1111/radm.12513
Along Liu, Jibao Gu, Hefu Liu
{"title":"The fit between firm capability and business model for SME growth: a resource orchestration perspective","authors":"Along Liu, Jibao Gu, Hefu Liu","doi":"10.1111/radm.12513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12513","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21040,"journal":{"name":"R&D Management","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83718199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R&D ManagementPub Date : 2021-11-17DOI: 10.1111/radm.12511
Conor O’Kane, J. Haar, Jing A. Zhang
{"title":"Examining the micro‐level challenges experienced by publicly funded university principal investigators","authors":"Conor O’Kane, J. Haar, Jing A. Zhang","doi":"10.1111/radm.12511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12511","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21040,"journal":{"name":"R&D Management","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76748715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R&D ManagementPub Date : 2021-11-05DOI: 10.1111/radm.12509
Kyung‐Baek Min, C. Lee, Young‐Choon Kim
{"title":"The impact of the timing of patent allowance on technology licensing performance: evidence from university invention commercialization","authors":"Kyung‐Baek Min, C. Lee, Young‐Choon Kim","doi":"10.1111/radm.12509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12509","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21040,"journal":{"name":"R&D Management","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90318727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R&D ManagementPub Date : 2021-10-13DOI: 10.1111/radm.12507
Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, G. Murgia, A. Parmentola
{"title":"How can open innovation support SMEs in the adoption of I4.0 technologies? An empirical analysis","authors":"Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, G. Murgia, A. Parmentola","doi":"10.1111/radm.12507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12507","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21040,"journal":{"name":"R&D Management","volume":"6 18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79835281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R&D ManagementPub Date : 2021-10-13DOI: 10.1111/radm.12508
K. Marhold, Jan Fell
{"title":"Multi‐mode standardization under extreme time‐pressure – the case of COVID‐19 contact‐tracing apps","authors":"K. Marhold, Jan Fell","doi":"10.1111/radm.12508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12508","url":null,"abstract":"The present study investigates the standardization process of contact tracing apps during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Due to the epidemiological urgency, and differing from classical examples in the literature, this process is characterized by a compressed timeframe. In this setting, we investigate the role of different standard‐setting modes and their interaction through the lens of multi‐mode standardization. We find that the processes of standard setting through market competition or inclusive multi‐stakeholder committees proved time‐consuming and inefficient in addressing the immediate needs during this major global health crisis. Multi‐mode standardization between committees, market players, and governments equally proved unable to coordinate a standard. Ultimately, a so far neglected actor, namely platform owners, proved to be pivotal in coordinating a widely‐adopted standard. Our research extends multi‐mode standardization with platform owners as a further standardization actor of proliferating importance given the increasing pervasiveness of platforms in numerous contexts. The present article provides implications for the interplay between different modes of standard setting in general, and the setting of technological standards in crises in particular.","PeriodicalId":21040,"journal":{"name":"R&D Management","volume":"27 1","pages":"356 - 375"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75127228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R&D ManagementPub Date : 2021-10-13DOI: 10.1111/radm.12506
Dirk Schneckenberg, Kurt Matzler, Patrick Spieth
{"title":"Theorizing business model innovation: an organizing framework of research dimensions and future perspectives","authors":"Dirk Schneckenberg, Kurt Matzler, Patrick Spieth","doi":"10.1111/radm.12506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12506","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21040,"journal":{"name":"R&D Management","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80025722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R&D ManagementPub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.1111/radm.12497
S. Corsi, Feranita Feranita, Alfredo De Massis
{"title":"International R&D partnerships: the role of government funding in reducing transaction costs and opportunistic behavior","authors":"S. Corsi, Feranita Feranita, Alfredo De Massis","doi":"10.1111/radm.12497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12497","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21040,"journal":{"name":"R&D Management","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82977713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R&D ManagementPub Date : 2021-09-05DOI: 10.1111/radm.12503
Wyssal Abbassi, Aida Harmel, Wafa Belkahla, Helmi Ben Rejeb
{"title":"Maker movement contribution to fighting COVID‐19 pandemic: insights from Tunisian FabLabs","authors":"Wyssal Abbassi, Aida Harmel, Wafa Belkahla, Helmi Ben Rejeb","doi":"10.1111/radm.12503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12503","url":null,"abstract":"COVID‐19 is an unexpected and brutal pandemic that requires new innovation models to overcome the constraints of this crisis and address its multiple challenges. Open innovation does not replace a traditional closed R&D model; but in the current crisis situation, it can support an ecosystem stakeholders’ effort by leveraging several collaborations. Based on the Tunisian experience, this study illustrates how a crisis can spontaneously create these collaborations between the maker’s community, the users (public healthcare professionals) and key stakeholders (universities, civil society and the private sector among others). To investigate this research question, we adopted a qualitative approach based on a single embedded case study and collected data through participant observation technique. The case study describes a process of crisis‐driven innovation based on 3D printing technologies in order to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to healthcare professionals. It highlights two distinct phases describing the evolution from a local collaborative model to the creation of a national ecosystem able to design, manufacture and address the growing need of the public healthcare system. Our findings show with empirical evidence the crucial roles played by the makers’ community, FabLabs and engineers in the fight against the COVID‐19 pandemic. This study draws lessons on how a large health crisis can trigger national crisis‐driven innovation (CDI) initiatives, which helped structure the makers’ network and promote collaboration towards a common national goal. A collaborative framework for CDI initiated by the Tunisian makers’ community is proposed in this study and could be adopted in similar crisis contexts, in Global South and North settings.","PeriodicalId":21040,"journal":{"name":"R&D Management","volume":"3 1","pages":"343 - 355"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74859876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R&D ManagementPub Date : 2021-09-05DOI: 10.1111/radm.12499
A. Crupi, Sida Liu, Wei Liu
{"title":"The top‐down pattern of social innovation and social entrepreneurship. Bricolage and agility in response to COVID‐19: cases from China","authors":"A. Crupi, Sida Liu, Wei Liu","doi":"10.1111/radm.12499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12499","url":null,"abstract":"Social innovation and social entrepreneurship usually follow a bottom‐up pattern. Companies and entrepreneurs decide to focus their business effort on meeting critical and urgent social needs. However, what happens when institutions promote or push top‐down initiatives? The outbreak of COVID‐19 is redefining, for many aspects, entrepreneurial dynamics. By creating a critical shortage of resources and medical supplies, the pandemic drew central and local institutions to push companies to cover the increasing social and medical needs. This study explores how companies reacted to top‐down‐initiated social innovation and social entrepreneurship activities. In doing so, the study focuses on the first heavily hit country, China, and it collects data from companies involved in the production of medical masks and the provision of solutions for nucleic acid tests. Our findings reveal that companies answer to top‐down pushes by implementing two main strategies in a time of crisis. First, the social bricolage by exploiting available and local resources. Second, companies react with agility by re‐thinking their internal innovation, relying on past similar experiences, and making their resource fluid. Our study adds the literature regarding social innovation and entrepreneurship in a crisis time by providing implications for institutions and organizations in setting and responding to strategies for future crises.","PeriodicalId":21040,"journal":{"name":"R&D Management","volume":"11 1","pages":"313 - 330"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76439157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}