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SciArt collaborations at the Joint Research Centre: Understanding and evaluating transdisciplinary innovation beyond economic value

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Technovation Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103229

Sofia Greaves , Caterina Benincasa , Virginia Bernardi , Adriaan Eeckels

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Digital twin, digital thread, and digital mindset in enabling digital transformation: A socio-technical systems perspective

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Technovation Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103240

Swapan Ghosh , Mat Hughes , Paul Hughes , Ian Hodgkinson

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The long-term evolution of technological complexity and its relationship with economic growth

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Technovation Pub Date : 2025-04-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103233

Tom Broekel , Torben Klarl

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Empowering digital innovation in SMEs: Experimental evidence from design sprint innovation contests

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Technovation Pub Date : 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103239

Davide Azzolini , Nicola Doppio , Sascha Kraus , Luca Mion , Iunio Quarto Russo , Alessio Tomelleri

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Generative artificial intelligence and the challenges to adding value ethically

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Technovation Pub Date : 2025-04-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103235

Samuel Fosso Wamba , Maciel M. Queiroz , Krithika Randhawa , Gaurav Gupta

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Beyond borders: Unraveling the tapestry of export performance through business model innovation, open innovation, and organisational agility

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Technovation Pub Date : 2025-04-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103237

Jose Piñera Salmerón , Raquel Sánz Valle , Francisco-Jose Molina-Castillo

{"title":"Beyond borders: Unraveling the tapestry of export performance through business model innovation, open innovation, and organisational agility","authors":"Jose Piñera Salmerón , Raquel Sánz Valle , Francisco-Jose Molina-Castillo","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103237","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103237","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Increasing competitiveness in domestic markets has forced many companies to undertake initiatives to sell their products abroad. The purpose of this paper is to identify factors that could help firms improve export performance. This research contributes to the literature in this field by focusing on three variables that recent literature highlights as key drivers of export performance but on which research is lacking: business model innovation, open innovation and organisational agility (operational and market agility). Based on 196 industrial exporting companies, the results indicate that business model innovation, open innovation and one of the two types of agility considered, market agility, are crucial to improving export performance. Moreover, business model innovation mediates the relationship between both open innovation and market agility and export performance. Unexpectedly, our findings show a negative relationship between operational agility and export performance, mediated by business model innovation. The implications of this paper's findings can interest companies seeking to improve their export performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103237"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143786106","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}

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Linkage and coordination: Industrial digital transformation from the perspective of innovation ecosystem

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Technovation Pub Date : 2025-04-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103228

Yu Wang , Cui Huang , Xuanting Ye , Jian Zhang

{"title":"Linkage and coordination: Industrial digital transformation from the perspective of innovation ecosystem","authors":"Yu Wang , Cui Huang , Xuanting Ye , Jian Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103228","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103228","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The topic of industrial digital transformation (IDT) is garnering prominence in both industry and academia. Current discussions on IDT are most concentrated within specific business disciplines but remain fragmented, lacking a broader systemic perspective that integrates digital technology adopters, collaborative value co-creators, and the regulating external techno-economic environment. This paper explores innovation ecosystem theory to construct a “technology-organization-market” integrated analysis framework, understanding IDT's multi-field linkage and cross-field coordination characteristics. We apply this exploratory framework to the Chinese urban rail transit industry as a case study, analyzing the interlinkages and collaborative dynamics in the digital transformation across various functional areas over the past decade. We observe that notable advancements in technological upgrading, organizational systems, and market performance within the industry, yet potential constraints at the technical field. Moreover, we observe a coordinated effect of chain optimization among different fields. However, a long-term negative impact is observed between technology and organization fields, possibly linked to recent industrial technology development decline.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103228"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143777688","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}

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Revalorization, frugal innovation, and circularity: A qualitative exploration of African used automotive parts business

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Technovation Pub Date : 2025-04-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103231

Obinna Alo , Ahmad Arslan , Jyoti Choudrie , Maria Elo

{"title":"Revalorization, frugal innovation, and circularity: A qualitative exploration of African used automotive parts business","authors":"Obinna Alo , Ahmad Arslan , Jyoti Choudrie , Maria Elo","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103231","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103231","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper aims to analyze the nexus of revalorization, frugal innovation, and the circular economy in the under-explored African used automotive parts business context. Based on 30 in-depth interviews with key players including dealers, mechanics, and jobbers, our findings illuminate how these players leverage modern electronic communication, video sharing apps, and barter trade in African used automotive part business. We further found local players employing unique practices to renovate, restructure, alter, restore, reuse, extend, and recycle these used parts, emphasizing maximum value extraction from minimal resources. This paper is one of the first academic works to highlight the criticality of local independent actors (non-dealerships) in the automotive aftermarket sector, especially in non-western contexts. It further showcases these local actors’ contributions to circular economy via revalorization, while at the same time creating social value for the bottom of the pyramid (BoP) consumers. Finally, the paper contributes to several literature streams including circular economy beyond formal systems, scalability of frugal and circular practices, and resource-constrained value creation, among others.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103231"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143777685","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}

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Speed advantages or profiting from imitation? The imitation dilemma in the follower strategy

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Technovation Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103234

Zelong Wei, Dejian Zhang

{"title":"Speed advantages or profiting from imitation? The imitation dilemma in the follower strategy","authors":"Zelong Wei, Dejian Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103234","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103234","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Speed advantages and profiting from imitation are two fundamental goals of strategic imitation, which are separately highlighted in studies on follower strategy and profiting from innovation. However, because of the resource similarity introduced by imitation, imitators appear to face a dilemma between those goals. Although imitating the resource configurations and practices of others establishes speed advantages, increased resource similarity encourages rivals to retaliate to the point of undermining imitation profits. Using survey data from 334 Chinese manufacturing firms and regression analysis, this study empirically tests the effects of imitation on new product development (NPD) speed and resource attacks by competitors. We also examine the moderating effects of business and government networks. The results demonstrate that imitation increases NPD speed and resource attacks by competitors. Specifically, business networks strengthen the effects of imitation on NPD speed and resource attacks by competitors, while government networks weaken them. This research contributes to the literature on strategic imitation by exploring the imitation dilemma and the strategic value of leveraging network relationships in response.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103234"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143767737","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}

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The bright and dark sides of AI innovation for sustainable development: Understanding the paradoxical tension between value creation and value destruction

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Technovation Pub Date : 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103232

Ilaria Mancuso , Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli , Umberto Panniello , Giovanni Vaia

{"title":"The bright and dark sides of AI innovation for sustainable development: Understanding the paradoxical tension between value creation and value destruction","authors":"Ilaria Mancuso , Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli , Umberto Panniello , Giovanni Vaia","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103232","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103232","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the bright and dark sides of artificial intelligence (AI) innovation for sustainable development. While most research has concentrated on the positive impacts of AI innovation, this study examines the paradoxical tension that arises between sustainable value creation and sustainable value destruction when managing AI innovation to achieve sustainable development. We conceptualize a model explaining the antecedents and the nature of this tension, and we discuss seven illustrative cases that exemplify the practical applicability of the model's elements. Our findings show that conflicting sub-objectives across environmental, social, and economic domains, along with the divergent interests of stakeholders, are key antecedents of the paradoxical tension. Furthermore, our model illustrates that sustainable value can be created by: (i) reducing grand challenges through automation in defining problems' root cause, and (ii) mitigating grand challenges through augmentation of firms' capabilities. However, we argue that sustainable value can be also destroyed when failing to address grand challenges or introducing new grand challenges. According to our study, this is due to predictable or unpredictable issues that arise during the design, development, or deployment of AI innovation. Finally, the discussion of our model further explores, through five theorical propositions, the specific elements of AI innovation that enable and amplify this paradoxical tension.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"143 ","pages":"Article 103232"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143748053","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}

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