TechnovationPub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102984
Lucas Emmanuel Nascimento Silva , Leonardo Augusto de Vasconcelos Gomes , Aline Mariane de Faria , Felipe Mendes Borini
{"title":"Innovation processes in ecosystem settings: An integrative framework and future directions","authors":"Lucas Emmanuel Nascimento Silva , Leonardo Augusto de Vasconcelos Gomes , Aline Mariane de Faria , Felipe Mendes Borini","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102984","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although the foundational works of ecosystem research recognized the central role of innovation, the current scholarship lacks a more systemic, systemized understanding of how innovation processes take place in ecosystem settings. This lack of a dominant framework that bridges innovation processes and ecosystem fields risks leading to a situation in which crucial problems at the intersection of these two fields remain poorly investigated. Through a systematic literature review, we made a case for rediscovering how these two branches of knowledge can be bridged. As an initial step, we consolidate the literature on these intersections, profile the studies that initially began to establish a bridge between ecosystem and innovation processes, propose a tentative framework for integrating both literatures, and set an agenda for further studies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140031225","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}
TechnovationPub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102986
Anja Tekic , Diana Vilma Alfonzo Pacheco
{"title":"Contest design and solvers' engagement behaviour in crowdsourcing: The neo-configurational perspective","authors":"Anja Tekic , Diana Vilma Alfonzo Pacheco","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102986","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Companies face the challenges of attracting solvers and motivating them to dedicate their time and effort to develop solutions in crowdsourcing contests. Previous research emphasizes the importance of crowdsourcing contest design for fostering solvers' engagement. However, even though contests are designed as a combination of various design elements, such as seeker's identity disclosure, seeker's status, contest duration and monetary prize, prior studies primarily focused on independent effects of these elements, ignoring their interdependency. Building our study on the social exchange theory, we adopt the neo-configurational perspective to explore effective designs of crowdsourcing contests and contribute to our understanding of how contest design elements interact to jointly stimulate solvers' engagement. By the means of the fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 277 contests, we show that the combination of long contest duration and high monetary prize plays a significant role in attracting solvers to join crowdsourcing contests, while these elements need to be additionally reinforced by the seeker's identity disclosure and its high status to motivate solvers to actually commit to problem solving. In this way, our study provides unique insights about the differences between contest designs that only initially attract solvers and designs that actually motivate them to create value for seeker companies. It fills the gap where previous research failed to embrace the configurational character of contest design, while offering unique guidance to managers who struggle to attract solvers to join and contribute to crowdsourcing initiatives.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140031224","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}
TechnovationPub Date : 2024-03-03DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102983
Claudia Yáñez-Valdés , Maribel Guerrero
{"title":"Determinants and impacts of digital entrepreneurship: A pre- and post-COVID-19 perspective","authors":"Claudia Yáñez-Valdés , Maribel Guerrero","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102983","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Entrepreneurship and technology have been strongly connected over the last decades. The growth of digital technology and external factors have brought entrepreneurs new opportunities and challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic has reevaluated the relationship between digitalization and innovative business models. Like any entrepreneurial process, entrepreneurs face a complex adaptation process that determines their success or failure. We reviewed 208 articles published in the past decade to identify trends related to the determinants and impacts of digital entrepreneurship pre- and post-COVID-19 pandemic. Our results show trends in the definitions used, the relationship between external and internal factors that enable the exploration of available digital technologies for emerging business models, and the value digital entrepreneurs create for social, economic, and technological developments. Our study proposes a multidimensional framework and discusses challenges and opportunities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140016162","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}
TechnovationPub Date : 2024-03-02DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102987
Arindam Das , Subhasis Ray
{"title":"Techno-humane futures in the global south: lessons from Professor Shonku","authors":"Arindam Das , Subhasis Ray","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102987","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140015761","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":"Determinants of reward crowdfunding success: Evidence from Covid-19 pandemic","authors":"Zeinab Elrashidy , Roszaini Haniffa , Mohamed Sherif , Sarra Baroudi","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102985","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines the impact of quality signals as proxied by third party recognition, videos, photos, GIFs, online presence, and general disclosure; and signals of trust proxied by risk disclosure, location of fundraisers, team effort and recent funding success on reward crowdfunding success. In addition, the analysis investigates and provides new evidence on the moderating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the relationship between the two types of signaling and funding success. Using data from of 21,270 campaigns posted on Kickstarter over the period July 2019 to July 2020, logistic regression models indicate a statistically significant relationship between quality/trust signals and campaigns’ funding success. Interestingly, we find that using diverse multimedia content, providing extensive information disclosure, involving a team of creators and having a track record of previous successful funding are significant determinants of reward crowdfunding success. On the contrary, the use of photos and disclosure of online presence have significant adverse effect on the likelihood of funding success. The findings also suggest that the external shock of Covid-19 pandemic only has significant interactive effects on the reward crowdfunding success for two signaling proxies, viz. Extent of risk information disclosure and external URL presence. Our findings are robust to the Difference-in-Differences model check and a range of other robustness tests.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016649722400035X/pdfft?md5=a0bfd028d4c02a895e8f6075774454de&pid=1-s2.0-S016649722400035X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139999681","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}
TechnovationPub Date : 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102976
Henrik Skaug Sætra
{"title":"Science fiction, sustainability, and scenario use: Comprehensive scenarios for improved strategy development and innovation","authors":"Henrik Skaug Sætra","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102976","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Businesses are increasingly integrating sustainability – or Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) – into existing strategies or developing separate sustainability strategies. Simultaneously, they are reporting on their sustainability related impacts, and the use of <em>scenarios</em> is becoming more common both in strategy development and risk assessments aimed at reporting. However, the value of the approaches to scenario analysis in the main sustainability reporting and ESG frameworks is questionable. They tend to be technically oriented and not conducive to explaining and communicating key strategically important aspects of the futures sought understood, which overlooks other critical sustainability dimensions such as social equity and inclusive economic growth. Furthermore, such use of scenarios is not conducive for promoting innovation. This article examines the current use of scenarios, focusing on common business practices, while also emphasising the need to be ambitious and utilise the potential of science fiction in the scenario process. I propose a practical, pragmatic, and “non-ideal” version of scenario development that is a) an improvement on current business practices and b) accessible and useful for companies wanting to utilize scenarios without extensive resources or the inclination to rely heavily on external scenario experts. This culminates in a recommendation that adopt a more comprehensive approach to sustainability scenarios than what is found in mainstream reporting frameworks. By deepening their engagement with scenarios, organisations will be able to improve the foundations for their strategy development processes, which will also be more tightly coupled with an organisation's innovation management and design processes. Most importantly, however, comprehensive science fiction scenarios can help enable a more sustainable future. By creating and shaping imaginaries of more sustainable futures, such futures become more likely.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166497224000269/pdfft?md5=dde1ed8d78f17a452712445c5df757e7&pid=1-s2.0-S0166497224000269-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139986182","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}
TechnovationPub Date : 2024-02-24DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102970
Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli , Luca Mora , Angelo Natalicchio , Federico Platania , Celina Toscano Hernandez
{"title":"Consumers’ reaction to sci-fi as a source of information for technological development: An empirical analysis","authors":"Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli , Luca Mora , Angelo Natalicchio , Federico Platania , Celina Toscano Hernandez","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102970","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Science fiction (sci-fi) creative products inspire individuals by envisioning alternative futures and imaginary technological development. The stimuli conveyed by sci-fi creative products can trigger consumers' interest, which nowadays translate into reactions on social media platforms. Consequently, these reactions allow to understand the attitude of potential consumers towards not-yet-developed technologies and inform firms developing novel and unconventional technological solutions, hence reducing their market uncertainty. This study aims at exploring if the individuals' reactions to the technological themes presented through sci-fi creative products and conveyed through social media may become a source of information for innovating firms, that may consequently affect their technology development processes. To answer our research question, we relied on the individuals’ reactions to the sci-fi series Black Mirror conveyed through Twitter and on patents related to the technological themes presented in the series. Results show that in most cases there is a significant variation in social media engagement about the presented technology after the first airing of the episode and, in a subset of cases we found a significant variation in the mean number of related patents filed per day, that can be associated with an actual change in the technology development processes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139942191","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}
TechnovationPub Date : 2024-02-21DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102974
Yutao Sun , Lin Jiang , Cong Cao , Fang-Mei Tseng
{"title":"From contributors to boundary spanners: Evolving roles of government agencies in China’s innovation policy network (1980–2019)","authors":"Yutao Sun , Lin Jiang , Cong Cao , Fang-Mei Tseng","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102974","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The complexity of innovation governance has led to increasing participation of relevant government agencies and a clear division of their roles within policy networks, where they function not only as contributors but also as boundary spanners. This study investigates the evolving roles of government agencies as contributors and boundary spanners (i.e., brokers) within the innovation policy network. We perform a social network analysis (SNA) of China's innovation policy network, consisting of 536 policy documents formulated and co-sponsored by central government agencies between 1980 and 2019. Our findings reveal several key insights: First, since 1980, there has been a gradual increase in the number and share of agencies acting as brokers, with most agencies becoming contributors. Second, in considering boundary spanners, China's innovation policy network has mainly consisted of a small number of key players and a large number of supporters, with dedicators and harmonizers being in minority. Finanlly, science and technology (S&T) agencies' primary brokerage roles have undergone significant changes, shifting from solely representatives and liaisons to now encompassing the roles of liaisons, representatives, and consultants; economic agencies have transitioned from being merely representatives and liaisons to primarily serving as liaisons, consultants, and representatives. The primary brokerage roles of both S&T agencies and economic agencies have changed from representatives to liaisons, signaling a shift in their broker function from connecting members both inside and outside the group to facilitating interactions with members of outside groups.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139936784","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}
TechnovationPub Date : 2024-02-20DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102967
George Papachristos , Eleni Papadonikolaki , Bethan Morgan
{"title":"Projects as a speciation and aggregation mechanism in transitions: Bridging project management and transitions research in the digitalization of UK architecture, engineering, and construction industry.","authors":"George Papachristos , Eleni Papadonikolaki , Bethan Morgan","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102967","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sociotechnical transitions are mostly seen in the literature as processes where actors and technologies in small niches peripheral to an organizational field, accumulate momentum, scale up, aggregate, and eventually bring about large-scale regime change. Foundational examples include the British transition from sailing ships to steamships and the American transition from traditional factories to mass production. Herein lies a paradox, transitions concern large scale system change for example transition to electric cars or renewable energy, but large-scale options for technological change driven by incumbents have received less attention in transitions research. This is an important opportunity for transition research to draw on the literature of project management research on large-scale projects. We bridge transitions research and project management research by exploring speciation and aggregation from both perspectives. We illustrate how this bridge may be instantiated drawing on published research and interviews on six megaprojects that have been instrumental in the digital transformation of UK construction: (i) the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, (ii) Heathrow Terminal 5, (iii) London Olympics, (iv) Crossrail, (v) Thames Tideway and (vi) High Speed Two. The speciation of digital technology seeds the process of aggregation and UK industry transition which is driven by incumbents at the organizational field core and ripples outward to its periphery. This is a reverse process to the one mostly considered in transition research where change initiates in small niches peripheral to an organizational field and propagates until it eventually brings about large-scale change to its core.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166497224000178/pdfft?md5=573c2f354c83e8166ce8ec739709bc33&pid=1-s2.0-S0166497224000178-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139907476","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}
TechnovationPub Date : 2024-02-20DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102975
Amir Talaei-Khoei, Alan T. Yang, Masialeti Masialeti
{"title":"How does incorporating ChatGPT within a firm reinforce agility-mediated performance? The moderating role of innovation infusion and firms’ ethical identity","authors":"Amir Talaei-Khoei, Alan T. Yang, Masialeti Masialeti","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102975","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The expansion of ChatGPT has sparked substantial discussions on the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence AI to profoundly reshape the business environment. However, empirical data on ChatGPT and its effects on firm performance are still lacking. In accordance with relevant literature, this study investigates the influence of ChatGPT-enabled agility, encompassing both operational and market facets, on firm performance. This work studies the moderating roles of innovative infusion of ChatGPT and ethical identity in the association between incorporating ChatGPT into standard processes with operational and market agilities. Data from a survey of IT executives were analyzed to validate our proposed hypotheses. We found that while the infusion of ChatGPT in an organization moderates the relationship between ChatGPT incorporation and operational agility, infusion does not significantly impact market agilities. In addition, we found that a firm's ethical identity moderates ChatGPT-enabled market agilities but not operational agility. We also found that both types of agility play mediating roles in improving firm performance. This study adds to the growing body of literature on dynamic capabilities by presenting and testing a theory on the influence of a firm's capability to incorporate ChatGPT on agility, firm performance, and the role of ChatGPT infusion and firm ethical identity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139915457","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}