Technovation最新文献

{"title":"How do accelerators emerge and develop in entrepreneurial universities?","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103053","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103053","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper explores the creation and development process of an accelerator by a European business university, investigating the factors that led the university to found its own accelerator and that guided its set up process in terms of choice of focal activities and governance structure, as well as the mechanisms through which it creates value for its internal and external ecosystem. Relying on an in-depth case study approach, we conducted several interviews with members of the accelerator, key university stakeholders, and external partners. Our empirical evidence points to the existence of both internal and external drivers that led to the emergence of the university accelerator and suggests that its operating and governance structures were strategically designed to leverage the university’s internal strengths and resources and to balance integration and autonomy needs. It also underscores the key roles played by the top management of the university and by the internal champion in aligning views, building consensus, and negotiating solutions in this process. Finally, it reveals how by strategically orchestrating the relationships with internal and external stakeholders a university accelerator can build internal and external legitimacy and successfully balance the need of creating value for both the university and the broader ecosystem in which it operates.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166497224001032/pdfft?md5=18b887ee2e7f64d1fd77a62fc3e178a6&pid=1-s2.0-S0166497224001032-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141960287","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":"Unveiling knowledge ecosystem dimensions for MSMEs’ digital transformation, toward a location-based brokerage","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103086","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103086","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study explores how knowledge ecosystems (KEs) led by a knowledge broker (KB) can support the digital transformation of Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs). By employing an exploratory research design and action research methodology, the paper proposes and applies an analytical framework to investigate the characteristics of KEs and the knowledge managed by the KB as the innovation intermediary acting as leader of the KE The case study selected uncovers the dimensions of a regional KE guided by a digital innovation hub (DIH) supporting MSMEs towards the adoption of the “Digital Artisan platform” deriving from an Industry 4.0 project.</p><p>The findings highlight the importance of trust, strategic alignment, and dynamic capabilities of KBs in enhancing MSMEs' digital journey and emphasize the location dimension of the regional KE as a means for providing tailored support. This research contributes to the theoretical and practical understanding of regional KEs enabling the digital transformation through KBs who are the innovation intermediaries covering the role of leaders of the ecosystem.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166497224001366/pdfft?md5=c3320abf31c341ef72047b7e4b85d1fd&pid=1-s2.0-S0166497224001366-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141952651","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":"When is digital transformation beneficial for coupled open innovation? The contingent role of the adoption of industry 4.0 technologies","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103087","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103087","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The impact of digital transformation (DT) on open innovation (OI) has attracted growing interest. However, the nuanced effects of various forms of coupled OI on innovation outcomes remain underexplored. This study aims to investigate the differential impacts of coupled OI modes on innovation performance within the context of DT driven by Industry 4.0 technologies. To test the hypotheses, we used Heckman's two-stage estimation utilizing the Korean Innovation Survey 2022. The findings reveal that collaborative activities as coupled OI modes positively impact innovation performance. Furthermore, the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies amplifies the positive impact of research and development (R&amp;D) collaborations on business process innovation while diminishing the positive effect of non-R&amp;D collaborations on new product development. This study's contribution to the literature lies in its finding that the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies can only be beneficial to firms when DT guides the focal firm on being more cooperative in R&amp;D collaboration activities and therefore helps focal firms to use innovation opportunities efficiently and more rapidly and to innovate diverse business processes. In practice, a firm should have sufficient capabilities to rigorously analyze DT-adoption data to capture market needs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141978321","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":"‘It's not the boogeyman’: How voice assistant technology is bridging the digital divide for older people","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103080","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103080","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Technologically illiterate users are frequently excluded from access to technology and its benefits, creating a digital divide. Some groups of older adults are among those considered technologically illiterate and experiencing vulnerability. For this population, traditional technologies that require physical interactions have proven to be stressful and create a phenomenon known as ‘technophobia’. Herein lies the potential value of touchless technologies such as voice assistants, which may offer a new avenue for older adult inclusion. Thus, our study delves deep into the lifeworld of older people to understand how voice assistants can impact inclusion and well-being. Adopting a longitudinal approach, we observed and interviewed participants (<em>n</em> = 32) in their homes, augmenting this qualitative data with secondary data from voice assistant device reports. Our initial results show that older people perceived the effect of illiteracy in their first encounter with the technology, but over time, they learnt to overcome initial challenges and started building relationships with artificial intelligence. In the final part of the study, participants identified the value of using technology and recognised that technology ‘is not the boogeyman’ but rather enables tech-inclusion and well-being. Under the lens of transformative service research, we provide a framework that illustrates how artificial intelligence is healing older people's digital divide, showing core elements of inclusion (access to new technology, support with activities, sense of participation, independence, convenience and source of information), and well-being (sense of pride, entertainment option, eased loneliness, improved self-esteem).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141959596","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":"Artificial intelligence and innovation management: Charting the evolving landscape","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103081","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103081","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The excitement surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI) is palpable. It is rapidly gaining prevalence in academia, business, and personal use. In particular, the emergence of generative AI, exemplified by large language models such as ChatGPT, has been marked by substantial media attention, discourse, and hype. Like most, if not all, aspects of business, innovation processes have been impacted. However, little is known about the degree of impact or the benefits that might be gained. To cut through the hype and understand the use of AI in innovation processes in businesses today, a large-scale survey amongst innovation managers in the USA was conducted, followed by interviews. The findings indicate that the use of AI in innovation processes is high and widespread, with AI being used for more than half of the surveyed firms' innovation projects. Furthermore, AI is used more in the development stage of the innovation process than in the idea or commercialization stages, which counters much of the existing discourse, which focuses on the idea stage. We uncover interesting differences by comparing the use and impact of generative AI with that of more traditional AI. Among these is a significant difference in expected benefits in making employees’ jobs more fulfilling — managers believe generative AI is more likely to confer this benefit than traditional AI. This paper offers two valuable contributions. First, it enriches the evolving dialogue at the intersection of AI and innovation management by offering much-needed empirical evidence about practical applications. Second, it provides timely managerial implications by examining relationships between the use of AI and innovation performance and understanding the benefits that AI can confer in the innovation process.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141960290","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":"Pricing innovation: The anchoring effect in patent valuation","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103070","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103070","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Prior literature has long recognized the substantial economic value that patents hold in the market. Yet, we know much less about the valuation process, i.e., how market audiences estimate (or determine) the value of newly granted patents. Building on behavioral economics, we propose the anchoring effect as an important cognitive mechanism, such that a patent's valuation is anchored on the value that preceding patents have secured. Analyzing financial valuation of U.S. patents between 1991 and 2010, we find broad support to the anchoring effect. The effect is more pronounced when focal patents are of lower novelty, when prior anchors are more consistent, and when focal firms have a higher patenting frequency. Furthermore, our extensional analysis suggests that anchoring acts as an important driver for the divergence between patents' economic value and scientific quality, which deserves attention from firms and policy makers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166497224001202/pdfft?md5=56ced839e9e2bfd36546e24b41b17bb6&pid=1-s2.0-S0166497224001202-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141630693","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":"Unpacking the link between entrepreneurial proactiveness and exploitative innovation strategy: The role of brokerage position and open innovation","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103068","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103068","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates inter-firm relationships’ distinct impacts on entrepreneurial proactiveness (EP) and exploitative innovation strategy. Although the existing literature on entrepreneurs’ innovation strategies has consistently found a positive relationship between EP and exploration, the mechanisms underlying the inconsistent relationship between EP and exploitative innovation strategy remain unclear. We anticipate that applying brokerage position in network theory would offer further insights into the relationship between EP and exploitative innovation strategy. Additionally, we introduced depth of openness as a moderating variable and examined its effect on the moderated mediation relationship. To test hypotheses, this study utilized linear and logistic regression, bootstrapping, and the Johnson-Neyman technique. The findings of the 2020 Korean Innovation Survey, conducted by the Science and Technology Policy Institute, indicate that data from 2352 Korean manufacturing companies exhibits that the brokerage position mediates EP and exploitative innovation strategy. Moreover, the depth of openness mitigated the positive relationship between the brokerage position and the exploitative innovation strategy and the indirect effect of EP on exploitative innovation strategy through the brokerage position. These findings contribute theoretically to entrepreneurial orientation and underscore the practical significance of aligning company goals with social relationships.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141636903","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":"Taking Science Fiction seriously: Unveiling its relationship with employee’s Innovative Work Behavior","authors":"Francesca Zoccarato ,&nbsp;Emanuele Lettieri ,&nbsp;Giovanni Radaelli ,&nbsp;Antonio Ghezzi ,&nbsp;Giovanni Toletti","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103071","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While existing literature acknowledges the role of science fiction in foreseeing technological advancements, a notable gap persists in understanding the underlying factors that drive or hinder individuals from the intention to generate and promote ideas gathered through science fiction. Our research model aims to shed novel light on what factors influence employees’ propensity to generate and promote ideas inspired by science fiction, through the lenses of institutional theory. Purposefully, we frame science fiction methodologies inside the Innovative Work Behavior discourse, as science fiction could be a fruitful tool to generate and promote ideas, and we investigate the interplay of rational and institutional influences on such behaviors. The findings provide valuable insights that can be leveraged to design and implement effective methodologies within organizational settings. Our study, based on data from 480 employees, employs Structural Equation Modeling to reveal the pivotal role of normative influence in idea generation, while idea promotion exhibits a robust association with cultural-cognitive influence, pinpointing the dual phase of science fiction methodologies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166497224001214/pdfft?md5=4ae11d46a94032215b58af5bc0af43ec&pid=1-s2.0-S0166497224001214-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141595614","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":"Agent-based modelling of user engagement in new product development","authors":"Yun Liu ,&nbsp;Bhakti Stephan Onggo ,&nbsp;Jerry Busby","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103062","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Intertwining users' engagement with the development of new products is becoming increasingly important for improving the products' performance. Therefore, a method to model the dynamics of collective user engagement is essential. This paper proposes a method to model the dynamics of collective user engagement in new product development using agent-based simulation. The model integrates an indirect engagement process – in which users exchange information and knowledge, draw from past experiences, and psychologically invest in the product – with a direct engagement process – in which users interact with the product and the firm to contribute. We demonstrate how the model can be calibrated using a consumer survey. Our findings reveal an overall increase in user engagement, characterised by nonlinear growth during the idea and design stages, followed by a relatively steady increase during the test stage. Moreover, our study identifies the significance of various factors, such as social network parameters, past experience, product connection, and match degree, in shaping user engagement in new product development. This research provides a systematic approach to model user engagement within the context of new product development. It also offers practical implications that can guide management decisions in effectively engaging with users during new product development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141541762","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":"Building entrepreneurial resilience during crisis using generative AI: An empirical study on SMEs","authors":"Adam Shore ,&nbsp;Manisha Tiwari ,&nbsp;Priyanka Tandon ,&nbsp;Cyril Foropon","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103063","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recently, Gen AI has garnered significant attention across various sectors of society, particularly capturing the interest of small business due to its capacity to allow them to reassess their business models with minimal investment. To understand how small and medium-sized firms have utilised Gen AI-based tools to cope with the market's high level of turbulence caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical crises, and economic slowdown, researchers have conducted an empirical study. Although Gen AI is receiving more attention, there remains a dearth of empirical studies that investigate how it influences the entrepreneurial orientation of firms and their ability to cultivate entrepreneurial resilience amidst market turbulence. Most of the literature offers anecdotal evidence. To address this research gap, the authors have grounded their theoretical model and research hypotheses in the contingent view of dynamic capability. They tested the research hypotheses using cross-sectional data from a pre-tested survey instrument, which yielded 87 useable responses from small and medium enterprises in France. The authors used variance-based structural equation modelling with the commercial WarpPLS 7.0 software to test the theoretical model. The study's findings suggest that Gen AI and EO have a significant influence on building entrepreneurial resilience as higher-order and lower-order dynamic capabilities. However, market turbulence has a negative moderating effect on the path that joins entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial resilience. The results suggest that the assumption that high market turbulence will have positive effects on dynamic capabilities and competitive advantage is not always true, and the linear assumption does not hold, which is consistent with some scholars' assumptions. The study's results offer significant contributions to the contingent view of dynamic capabilities and open new research avenues that require further investigation into the non-linear relationship of market turbulence.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166497224001135/pdfft?md5=a9262d49c10eb9d105b45f94960945c1&pid=1-s2.0-S0166497224001135-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141481098","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}