TechnovationPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103079
{"title":"Are consumers willing to pay more for green innovations? Insights from the air transport industry","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103079","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103079","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This research investigates whether consumers are willing to pay more for green innovations. As green innovations are often more complex and costly to develop or operate than are conventional innovations, it is important to assess whether consumers truly value the environmental benefits associated with green innovations. Focusing on the specific case of the air transport industry, we investigate whether air passengers are willing to pay more for greener flights (i.e., using new technologies that have lower greenhouse gas emissions). To do so, we conduct a choice-based conjoint (CBC) analysis in which respondents are confronted with several product profiles for a plane ticket. The sample comprises 17,325 choices made by 1155 respondents from North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania. The results reveal passengers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) (in euros) to switch from traditional jet fuel to different technological options that emit fewer greenhouse gas emissions than does kerosene. The results also investigate whether passengers are willing to accept longer flight times, which is an alternative operational method for reducing CO2 emissions. Additional analyses reveal that attitudes toward air transport (flight shame and trust in the aviation industry) and general pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors increase the WTP of passengers for greener innovations, while sociodemographics (age, gender and education) have no significant impact on WTP. This research extends the literature on green innovation by underlining the importance of its social acceptance and by highlighting under which circumstances consumers are willing to pay more for green innovations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142097438","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 : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103097
{"title":"Smart service value: Conceptualization, scale development, and validation in the retailing context","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103097","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103097","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In-store smart technology is rapidly transforming service delivery and value creation in the retail sector. However, despite these advances, academic acumen of customers' perceived value of their smart service interactions remains tenuous, exposing an important omission in extant literature. Addressing this gap, we conceptualize, operationalize, and validate <em>smart service value</em> (SSV) in the retailing context. We first define SSV as the costs and benefits as perceived by customers of using in-store smart service applications. We then operationalize SSV and validate a third-order, reflective-formative construct by means of a scale development survey through Amazon MTurk (study 1; n = 326). To further validate the proposed SSV scale, we subsequently tested our conceptual model using a survey querying a hypothetical retail setting through an Australian panel provider (study 2; n = 298), which was analyzed by using PLS path modeling. Specifically, we explore SSV's effect on customer engagement and trust, which are in turn envisaged to impact customers' quality of life. The results reveal a significant mediating effect of affective customer engagement/trust in the association of SSV and customer-perceived quality of life, highlighting the pertinence of customers' emotional (vs. cognitive) SSV assessments. Our findings are aimed at helping retailers to strategically position smart service technologies in their stores based on customer-perceived SSV.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142240725","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 : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103099
{"title":"Win–win or Lose–Lose? Dual logic, board factional faultlines, and ambidextrous innovation in state-owned enterprises","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103099","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103099","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Previous research has largely ignored the role of internal dynamics in filtering conflicting institutional demands facing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and in generating innovation heterogeneity. This study examines the internal dynamics within SOE boards by focusing on how directors representing different institutional logics experience and manage conflicting institutional expectations in a shared decision-making process of ambidextrous innovation. Particularly, using Chinese SOEs as samples, we determine that when faultlines between factional subgroups of directors committed to state and market logic are activated, the balance of ambidextrous innovation will increase; however, the activated faultlines simultaneously lead to declines in exploratory and exploitative innovation. Furthermore, this negative effect on ambidextrous innovation is stronger for high-tech firms but weaker for firms with substantive board independence. We extend the research on SOE innovation, organizational hybridity, and the effects of group faultlines. Additionally, the findings yield practical insights into addressing the challenges of SOE hybridity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142232219","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 : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103096
{"title":"Innovation modes and knowledge interactions: A micro-geographic approach","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103096","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142164089","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 : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103102
{"title":"How does market competition affect enterprise cooperative innovation? The moderating role of intellectual property protection and government subsidies","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103102","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103102","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cooperative innovation is an effective strategy for enterprises to obtain innovation resources and reduce innovation costs. However, existing studies have paid less attention to why and when enterprises choose cooperative innovation strategies. Focusing on market competition as a salient feature of the task environment, this study explores the mechanisms through which it affects cooperative innovation. Using a sample of leading manufacturing enterprises in China between 2010 and 2018, we adopt a negative binomial model to test our hypotheses. The results show that market competition has a U-shaped relationship with cooperative innovation breadth and cooperative innovation depth. And the relationship between market competition and cooperative innovation is moderated by the institutional environment factors. Specifically, the main effect is negatively moderated by intellectual property protection. And government subsidies only have significant moderating effects on the relationship between market competition and cooperative innovation breadth, but no significant moderating effects on the relationship between market competition and cooperative innovation depth. Besides, revealing the aforementioned relationship, this study provides theoretical and practical implications on how to strike a balance between innovation resources acquisition from the external partners and the associated risks of cooperation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142240726","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 : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103101
{"title":"Navigating protection mechanisms and innovation models: A literature-based configurational framework of intellectual property strategies","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103101","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103101","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study constructs a configurational framework to examine the complex relationships of factors influencing firms' mechanisms in intellectual property (IP) protection within the dichotomy of open and closed innovation models. Our methodology synthesizes an extensive literature review to identify and explicate four configurations of intellectual property and innovation strategies: open/formal, open/informal, closed/formal, and closed/informal. These configurations reflect the multifaceted decision-making firms face in aligning their innovation models with suitable IP mechanisms. By integrating factors such as industry sector, innovation nature, market dynamics, and legal context, we offer a comprehensive framework that captures the strategic considerations of intellectual property management, highlighting the importance of various factors in shaping firms' protection and innovation decisions. Our findings propose a nuanced understanding of IP strategy selection, setting the stage for future empirical investigations to test and refine this framework across diverse industries and markets.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166497224001512/pdfft?md5=123c43db38864bcc0a330d42a34b9340&pid=1-s2.0-S0166497224001512-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142240727","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 : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103098
{"title":"Digital Economy's influence on R&D Network configurations: Integrating resource dependence theory and institutional theory","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103098","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103098","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study addresses the transformative impacts of the digital economy, which forges connections throughout Research & Development (R&D) networks, prompting leaders of forward-thinking organizations to predict market shifts, guided by the frameworks of institutional theory and resource dependence theory. Institutional theory highlights the pressures, both coercive and normative, arising from the digital economy and regulatory environments, whereas resource dependence theory elucidates the strategic approaches organizations adopt to acquire vital resources and minimize network dependencies. This innovative research investigates how an organization's orientation towards the digital economy affects its role within R&D networks, leveraging insights from both theoretical standpoints. By pinpointing technology transformation and legal environment as key moderators, this study assesses their moderating effects. The analysis utilizes a comprehensive dataset containing 141,118 patents spanning from 1995 to 2018, concentrating on R&D efforts within China's strategic emerging sectors. The outcomes show that an organization's digital economy orientation, shaped by institutional norms and resource interdependencies, positively influences its network centrality but negatively impacts its structural hole position. Additionally, technology transformation and the legal environment, as institutional mechanisms, negatively modulate the relationship between digital economy orientation and network centrality, but positively influence the structural hole relationship. The study concludes with a bibliometric analysis to situate our findings within existing literature and discusses the theoretical and practical implications, rooted in institutional and resource dependence theories.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142168566","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 : 2024-08-26DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103094
{"title":"Divergent trajectories on frontier innovations: A comparison of international venture capital-invested ventures between China and the United States","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103094","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103094","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>How do international venture capital (IVC)-invested ventures (IIVs) between the U.S. and China generate new knowledge differently and follow distinct growth trajectories? Given that venture capital (VC) is critical for financing frontier innovations among new ventures, comparing U.S. and Chinese IIVs is essential for informing national innovation policy. Based on the organizational ecology perspective, we propose that U.S. and Chinese new ventures have divergent trajectories in frontier innovations. We identify 1782 first-round IVC investments in U.S. and Chinese new ventures operating in the computer software, e-commerce, biotechnology, semiconductors, and artificial intelligence sectors between 2010 and 2020 along with their 2825 patents (317 Chinese patents and 2508 U.S. patents). Our findings indicate that Chinese IIVs exhibit greater variation in terms of technological distance, search scope, and knowledge coupling, compared to U.S. IIVs. However, Chinese IIVs’ frontier innovations have more divergent technological trajectories and attract fewer followers than U.S. IIVs, based on patent citations. In a firm-level analysis, we find that Chinese IIVs are less likely to receive a subsequent financing round. Further, IIVs with greater technological distance and search scope, and with higher impact patents, have more opportunities to receive the next round of funding.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142075771","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 : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103083
{"title":"The adverse effects of political instability on innovation systems: The case of Mexico's wind and solar sector","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103083","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103083","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The global transition to clean energy requires policies to support innovation in the energy sector. However, the stability of energy policies is vulnerable to political disruptions and policy reversals. This paper aims to understand how innovation systems respond to periods of political instability. Specifically, it investigates the impact of policy retrenchment under Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on the sectoral innovation system (SIS) for renewable energy. Employing the innovation system framework, we examine how the structure and functions of the SIS were affected by political changes under the AMLO Administration. Notable policy changes include canceling long-term auctions and strategic transmission projects, reducing science funding, and fostering uncertainty. These alterations significantly impact entrepreneurial experimentation, knowledge development, market formation, guidance of the search, resource mobilization, and the creation of legitimacy in the SIS for wind and solar technologies. On the positive side, we find that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and local governments took action to compensate for the lack of federal leadership, and distributed generation continued as a niche of innovation. This research contributes to the innovation literature with an empirical study of innovation systems in Mexico. More generally, it highlights the adaptability of innovation systems during political transitions.</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":"141951498","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 : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103084
{"title":"Achieving optimal distinctiveness in incubation markets: Hierarchy of needs perspective","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103084","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103084","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As competition intensifies, business incubators face conflicting pressures: the need to conform to market prototypes to gain legitimacy while also differentiating themselves from peers to avoid competition. Optimal distinctiveness (OD) theory explores how organizations manage this pressure to gain legitimacy and achieve superior performance. This study introduces a hierarchy-of-needs perspective to categorize the services provided by incubators into two dimensions: generic service market infrastructure development (MID) addressing basic incubatee needs, and customized service business capability development (BCD) catering to specific needs. We empirically investigate how new private incubators in China strategically position themselves along these dimensions to pursue OD. Furthermore, we discuss the configurational effects of MID and BCD distinctiveness, alongside contextual conditions, identifying four paths to achieving high performance. These findings offer fresh insights into the orchestration view of OD by developing a new categorization of strategic dimensions from a hierarchy-of-needs perspective, as well as elucidating their individual effects and contextual contingencies.</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":"141951496","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}