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Accomplishing Technological Simplicity: Myth or Reality?
No full textWhen the iPhone will be a dinosaur, the Post-it® will still be around! We are at Weil am Rhein, Germany. The year is 2010. With the exhibition “Hidden Heroes: The Genius of Everyday Things”, the Vitra Design Museum and Hi-Cone present 43 everyday objects that entered our lives remaining unchanged for decades. Why is it the case? What makes these objects everlasting? The aim of this research is to shed new light on this under-researched (taken for granted) phenomenon, identifying its dimensions, systematically assessing them against the life cycle maturity phase
Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Business Processes: A Comprehensive Mapping Towards SDG Achievement
No full textError-driven emergence of ownership competences: evidence from early ventures
No full textThis study explores how early-stage startup founders develop ownership competences—matching, timing, and governance—through error-driven learning processes. Using a grounded theory approach, we analyze data from 96 Italian startup founders, examining the cognitive and behavioral responses to errors during their entrepreneurial journey from founders to owners. Our findings reveal three distinct cognitive approaches to errors—avoiding, hedging, and embracing—that shape how founders engage with errors and influence their learning mechanisms. While avoidance limits competence development, hedging facilitates episodic learning, and embracing fosters systematic learning, driving iterative adaptation and innovation. By synthesizing entrepreneurial cognitive approaches with specific learning mechanisms, we uncover how errors trigger the emergence of ownership competences, transitioning founders from founders to owners. This research advances effectuation and competence-based theories by positioning learning from errors mechanisms as critical junctures
Governance of Blockchain-based Decentralized Applications: Evidence form Multiple Cases
Full text linkCustomer-driven codevelopment: a fast-track to radical innovation in b2b
No full textAs the industrial and economic world is becoming ever more complex, undertaking virtuous invention-innovation capabilities seems to be the only competitive strategy to accomplish in order to adapt, profit and survive. The rising of complexity poses serious challenges to every company in this system so that they are called to shift towards more collaborative competitive strategies. In this vein, collaborative creation and development among a spectrum of heterogeneous industrial partners are investigated in this paper, as they represent the holy grail to accomplish radical inventions/innovations. A probabilistic theoretical model is proposed according to two dimensions: Partner Proximity (in terms of closeness to the company’s collaborating ecosystem) and Kind of Co-development (whether Focal company-driven or Customer-driven); different paths to Radical Innovation emerge, each one with its peculiar implications
Unveiling the Intellectual Origins of Social Media-based Innovation: Insights from a Bibliometric Approach
Full text linkThis article uses a bundle of bibliometric and text-mining techniques to provide a systematic assess-ment of the intellectual core of the Social Media-based innovation research field. The goal of this study is to identify main research areas, understand the current state of development and suggest po-tential future directions by analysing co-citations from 155 papers published between 2003 and 2013 in the most influential academic journals. The main clusters have been identified, mapped, and la-belled. Their most active areas on this topic and the most influential and co-cited papers have been identified and described. Also, intra- and inter-cluster knowledge base diversity has been assessed by using indicators stemming from the domains of Information Theory and Biology. A t-test has been performed to assess the significance of the inter-cluster diversity. Five co-existing research streams shaping the research field under investigation have been identified and characterized
Characterizing the Knowledge Base in the Middle-earth: a Longitudinal Patent-based Analysis of the Bioinformatics Industry
No full textThis paper investigates the nature of bioinformatics inventions by analysing technological contributions (patents). By analyzing data from USPTO, EPO, and WIPO, we shed some light on the antecedents that gave rise to what can be thought of as an interdisciplinary radical innovation. A quadruple helix of actors, entailing the exceptional role of single inventors, shaped the field. First evidence about trends and the role of non-patent references suggest that Bioinformatics has roots in science; the latter, still providing fundamental contributions for the growth of the industry and the patenting activity. A diversity analysis supports the view that scientific contributions (first and more than their technological counterparts) played an important role in sustaining the patenting activity in the Bioinformatics industry
Academics as Orchestrators of Continuous Innovation Ecosystems: Towards a Fourth Generation of CI Initiatives
No full textIn this paper, we shed light on why academics are in one of the best positions to orchestrate inter-organisational initiatives of continuous innovation (CI) within an innovation context that is shifting towards an open collaborative ecosystem mode. Two rationales seem to explain the potential key role of academics within a CI ecosystem: 1) their independence; 2) their compliance to CI ecosystem's purposes-independently by its type. The implications of the five papers invited to be part of the special issue, and formerly presented at the 14th International CINet Conference in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, are also discussed
The Interplay of Science and Technology in shaping the Patenting Activity of Top Companies in the Nanotech Industry
No full textDue to their pervasiveness and their business potential, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene are currently attracting the largest investments by firms focusing on the development of nanotechnologies. However, firms present with a wide heterogeneity in the strategies they pursue to develop CNTs and graphene technologies, which is reflected both in the diversification degree of their nanotechnology-related patent portfolios and in the type of partnerships they establish with external actors (being other firms or universities) to promote technology development. Such an heterogeneity in firms’ behaviour and innovation outcomes may also mask a different ability (or intention) to promote nanotechnologies that present different levels of radicalness and that show a different potential to become basic building blocks of the nascent nanotechnology trajectory. Against this background, this paper analyses the nanotechnology-related competences currently possessed by the largest players in this field. For each patent possessed by firms, we explore how the probability to generate a radical knowledge recombination is affected by the diversity of knowledge bases on which such a patent has been built. We distinguish two main knowledge bases, the one linked to scientific knowledge (and assessed through non-patent references), and the other linked to technological knowledge (and assessed through patent references). We thus explore to what extent science and technology have contributed to technology development, and to what extent the diversity among firms’ patent portfolios is explained by a different ability to combine together different scientific and technological sources. Results show that firms are heterogeneous in their ability to recombine knowledge. Albeit there are no companies neglecting neither science nor technology, some of the top inventors tend to cite more science than technology (their trajectory is characterized by science-driven recombination), while others tend to prefer the alternative innovation pattern of technology-driven recombination. From these results we derive implications for both managers and policy makers
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