TechnovationPub Date : 2025-07-07DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103301
Barthélemy Chollet , Karine Revet
{"title":"Expanding the scientist's palette: factors ofengagement with the Arts in geosciences and biology research","authors":"Barthélemy Chollet , Karine Revet","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103301","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103301","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Artistic work can offer powerful ways to enhance the societal impact and dissemination of scientific research. The practice of engaging with the Arts, however, is still far from widespread among scientists. In this study, we examine the factors that increase the likelihood that a principal investigator (PI) integrates some engagement with the Arts in the design of a research project. We draw on a database of 31,859 NSF standard grants (2003–2023) in geosciences and biology. Through a search for a set of keywords in project descriptions, we identify the rare projects that engage with the Arts. We find that projects designed by female scientists, in universities of lower research intensity, are most likely to engage with the Arts. Moreover, occurrences of this practice vary considerably across scientific subdomains. Additionally, addressing a sustainable development goal may either increase or decrease the likelihood that a project engages with the Arts, depending on the specific goal at hand.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"146 ","pages":"Article 103301"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144572358","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 : 2025-07-05DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103303
Farah Elbehairy , Luca Mora , Ralf-Martin Soe
{"title":"Who are you? Examining the multifaceted innovation roles of municipal governments in AI governance","authors":"Farah Elbehairy , Luca Mora , Ralf-Martin Soe","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103303","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103303","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Our study advances theoretical understanding of the diverse roles municipal governments play in governing the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies within their administrative boundaries. While existing literature typically frames municipalities as regulators or adopters of AI, it tends to overlook the broader set of responsibilities they assume in shaping AI governance. To address this gap, we map traditional innovation roles onto the multiple functions that municipal governments perform in the emerging domain of AI technologies. Drawing from innovation management theory and AI governance literature examining the agency of governments and public sector organizations in AI governance, we identify core continuities and contextual adaptations in these roles. These insights illustrate how the foundational logic of traditional innovation roles is preserved but recalibrated to reflect the specific demands of AI governance at the municipal level. This theoretical contribution extends innovation role typologies into the field of AI governance, laying the groundwork for future empirical research and policy development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"147 ","pages":"Article 103303"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144557055","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 : 2025-07-04DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103302
Minna Pikkarainen , Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen , Marika Iivari , Miia Jansson , He Hong-Gu
{"title":"Overseas innovation ecosystem collaboration in the healthcare sector","authors":"Minna Pikkarainen , Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen , Marika Iivari , Miia Jansson , He Hong-Gu","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103302","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103302","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Leveraging innovation collaboration and introducing novel data-driven healthcare services in new markets typically depends on functioning innovation ecosystems that facilitate local and global collaboration between industry actors, hospitals, and academia. However, as the healthcare sector has unique features including ethical, regulatory and privacy restrictions and slow adoption of new technologies, it can be argued that existing theorizing may not fully capture the dynamics and development of overseas ecosystems in this field. Aligning disparate stakeholder interests can be notably challenging, and approaching hospital markets is complicated, time-consuming, and expensive, especially in international settings such as those bridging Western and Eastern countries. Many actors consider engagement in collaboration carefully, weighing the balance between benefits and costs. This study explores how overseas innovation ecosystem collaboration emerges and evolves in a healthcare context, focusing on the challenges and benefits influencing this development, and how these are addressed. Based on a seven-year longitudinal case study involving actors from Europe and Asia, we show how companies engaging in innovation ecosystem collaboration can benefit from the orchestration of such collaboration by other actors than companies. Extending earlier knowledge, we explicate how academic actors can step in to orchestrate collaborative innovation activities, influencing factors such as regulatory frameworks, funding instruments, resource availability, leadership and strategic alignment, and involvement of mature companies in a fashion that removes the related barriers or even turns challenges into enablers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"147 ","pages":"Article 103302"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144557054","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 : 2025-07-03DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103304
Stuart Mills , Henrik Skaug Sætra
{"title":"Algorithms in the room: AI, representation, and decisions about sustainable futures","authors":"Stuart Mills , Henrik Skaug Sætra","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103304","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103304","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article considers the role of generative AI technologies, such as large language models (LLMs), in promoting the views of underrepresented groups. We are specifically concerned with the role AI could play in encouraging powerful decision-makers—often leading politicians and businesspeople in Western nations—to consider the perspectives of underrepresented groups when making decisions about sustainable development.</div><div>Some suggest generative AI could offer decision-makers perspectives they had previously not considered, leading to more equitable and innovative policy approaches, and supporting several of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We critique this perspective. Groups may be underrepresented in sustainable development decision-making because of individual cognitive and organisational information-processing limitations (‘<em>omitted, but not opposed</em>’), and because of opposition which remains even if these limitations are overcome (‘<em>opposed, whether omitted or not</em>’). We outline how these ‘categories of omission’ shape the opportunities and risks created by generative AI in representative sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"147 ","pages":"Article 103304"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144535687","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 : 2025-07-03DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103296
Matteo Opizzi , Michela Loi , Wadid Lamine
{"title":"Academic spin-off emergence as an organization-embedded dynamic: Synthesis and research questions from a systematic literature review","authors":"Matteo Opizzi , Michela Loi , Wadid Lamine","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103296","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103296","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Academic spin-offs drive regional development through science-based innovation, yet the knowledge of their emergence is still plagued by contradictory findings due to its poor grounding in theory. This paper, through a systematic literature review, re-reads spin-off emergence as an organization-embedded dynamic using the lens of social information processing theory.</div><div>Based on a thematic analysis that returns four conceptual themes (entrepreneurial university, institutional factors, human capital, and cognitive and psychological factors) a multi-level conceptual framework is proposed showing that both individual-level factors and elements of the university context have an effect, although in different ways, on the spin-off emergence dynamics. In recognizing spin-off formation as a complex and organization-embedded process of venture emergence, we further emphasize the need to complement driver identification with complexity-sensitive perspectives on organizational novelty.</div><div>Building on these findings, we propose a research agenda emphasizing three open issues: (i) understanding the drivers of spin-off emergence, (ii) unpacking the processual perspectives on spin-off emergence, and (iii) disentangling the interplay between individual-level and university-level factors. Theoretical contributions to academic entrepreneurship and practical implications for university policy are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"146 ","pages":"Article 103296"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144536230","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 : 2025-06-26DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103297
Antonio Martos-Pedrero , David Jiménez-Castillo , Vera Ferrón-Vílchez
{"title":"Enhancing performance through CSR absorptive capacity: Understanding the role of technological and organizational innovation","authors":"Antonio Martos-Pedrero , David Jiménez-Castillo , Vera Ferrón-Vílchez","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103297","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103297","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In today's business environment, companies must acquire and apply corporate social responsibility (CSR) knowledge to meet evolving market demands. Given its importance, further research is needed to understand the impact of developing these capabilities on performance, particularly the mechanisms through which this influence occurs. To address this gap, this study examines the concept of CSR absorptive capacity (CSR-ACAP) from a dual perspective, encompassing both potential and realized ACAP. We aim to assess the direct influence of CSR-ACAP on performance and to elucidate the role of organizational and technological innovation in this relationship. Using structural equation modeling on data from 107 Spanish agrifood firms, we found a direct link between both potential and realized CSR-ACAP and performance. Beyond the novelty of focusing ACAP analysis on CSR knowledge to demonstrate these relationships, this research reveals that firms that strengthen their CSR-ACAP are more likely to innovate, with both technological and organizational innovation serving as effective pathways for translating CSR knowledge into improved performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"146 ","pages":"Article 103297"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144480725","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 : 2025-06-26DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103300
Min-Nan Chen, Yu-Hsuan Wang
{"title":"Triple Impact: Exploring the interplay of appropriability and loose appropriability regime on economic performance","authors":"Min-Nan Chen, Yu-Hsuan Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103300","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103300","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the influence of firms' joint combination of appropriability strategies on economic performance in response to loose appropriability regime conditions. Drawing on the exogenous perception of loose appropriability regimes in the context of service innovations, we propose that simultaneously deploying formal and informal appropriability strategies enables firms to effectively secure intellectual property and maximize value appropriation, thereby enhancing their economic performance. Importantly, we further argue that the firms’ perception of loose appropriability regimes significantly amplifies this combined effect. Using an original large-scale survey of 300 Knowledge-Intensive Business Service firms (KIBS) in Taiwan, we confirm the presence of this three-way interaction effect. Our findings demonstrate that KIBS firms leveraging the joint combination of formal and informal appropriability mechanisms experience significant improvements in economic performance. Specifically, this positive impact is further amplified when firms actively perceive and respond to loose appropriability regimes⎼ resulting in an increase of approximately 19 % in new product sale share returns. Finally, by integrating both exogenous and endogenous perspectives from appropriability literature, we conclude that KIBS firms employing the joint combination of appropriability strategies significantly achieve greater economic performance, contingent on their perception of loose appropriability regimes. We thus highlight the critical role of firm-specific perceptions of external conditions in determining the effectiveness of appropriability strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"146 ","pages":"Article 103300"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144480726","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 : 2025-06-25DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103299
Youngjae Choi , Seokhyun Ryu , Sun Young Park , Sungjoo Lee
{"title":"Technology transfer of user-driven technological innovation: Evidence from patents in the medical device industry","authors":"Youngjae Choi , Seokhyun Ryu , Sun Young Park , Sungjoo Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103299","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103299","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Users have long been regarded as a useful source for technological innovation. Focusing on patent data, this study aims to investigate the contribution of users to technological innovation in the medical device industry. We first examine the overall trends of patents produced by users, named as user patents, in the target sector, and then analyze the technological characteristics of the user patents that are more likely to be transferred to companies, thus, contributing significantly to the technological innovation in the sector. The analysis results indicate that while the absolute number of user patents has increased, their ratio has decreased in the last ten years. However, despite the diminishing contribution of users, some of the user patents were regarded as highly valuable and transferred to companies for commercialization. In general, patents of lower component familiarity and novelty with high versatility were more likely to be transferred, where user patents strengthened the positive effect of versatility and weakened the negative effect of novelty on patent transferability compared to firm patents. The study's findings are expected to help understand the characteristics of user patents and their transferability in the medical device industry, ultimately promoting the commercialization of user innovation through technology transfer.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"146 ","pages":"Article 103299"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144472143","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 : 2025-06-24DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103280
Filippo Corsini , Nora Annesi , Marco Frey
{"title":"The role of AI in museums' journey towards sustainable development: Socio-technical imaginaries of a cultural and organizational transformation","authors":"Filippo Corsini , Nora Annesi , Marco Frey","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103280","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103280","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Artificial Intelligence (AI) is beginning to revolutionize numerous sectors, including that of museums. This paper explores the socio-technical imaginaries (STIs) held by key stakeholders in the sector to examine how the introduction of AI may influence the socio-economic and environmental dimensions of museums, both positively and negatively.</div><div>Adopting a qualitative approach, the paper analyzes the perceptions and expectations regarding AI integration in the museum based on semi-structured interviews with museum representatives, public administration officials, private sector representatives and cultural and visitors’ associations. The four emerging STIs provide an overview of the current perspectives of various stakeholders. For each imaginary, the socio-economic and environmental contributions of AI adoption are examined using the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda as a reference framework. Additionally, the paper identifies and discusses the tensions related to these contributions as perceived across different imaginaries.</div><div>The study outlines managerial and policy implications to facilitate AI integration that is both sustainable and inclusive, while ensuring the protection of cultural heritage and the well-being of sector professionals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"146 ","pages":"Article 103280"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144472142","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 : 2025-06-23DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103298
Ying Cai , Jun Lin , Ruxin Zhang , Jianqi Qiao , Yanying Shang
{"title":"When does design thinking promote radical and incremental innovation? The moderating role of the innovation stage","authors":"Ying Cai , Jun Lin , Ruxin Zhang , Jianqi Qiao , Yanying Shang","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103298","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103298","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although the interest in design thinking within innovation research and practice is growing, there is a lack of a holistic view of the relationship between design thinking and different types of innovation (i.e., radical and incremental innovation). This gap impedes a more thorough and nuanced comprehension of the role that design thinking plays in innovation. To bridge this gap, we investigate the impact of design thinking on both radical and incremental innovation by integrating resource orchestration theory. We further explore whether and how these impacts vary with the innovation stage (ideation stage vs. product development stage). Using survey data from 446 Chinese manufacturing firms, we find that design thinking positively affects both radical and incremental innovation. More interestingly, the innovation stage forms a different contingency factor in which design thinking affects the two types of innovation. The positive relationship between design thinking and incremental innovation is stronger in the ideation stage than in the product development stage. However, the positive relationship between design thinking and radical innovation does not differ significantly between the two stages of innovation. These findings advance the literature on when and how to apply design thinking in different types of innovation, providing practical implications for managers to adjust design thinking implementation strategies on the basis of innovation types and stages.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"146 ","pages":"Article 103298"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144365034","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}