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Business Model Innovation and its antecedents. The case of the Space Industry
No full textAntecedents of Business Model Innovation (BMI) may be many, different in nature, placed at several levels, and they can be internal or external to the firm. The current debate has barely connected such antecedents to the type of innovation of the Business Model (BM), if modular or architectural. To fill this gap, our study draws on an exploratory case study of an innovative firm operating in the Space Industry that over time developed various BMs capable of creating value by exploiting Earth Observation big data. The Copernicus Programme has in fact opened a vast amount of Earth Observation daily data to the world, giving firms the opportunity to compete in new ways and allowing the development of an ever-increasing number of downstream products and services.
As a result, Big Data from Space has changed considerably the Space Industry and firms are now in need to reconsider their BMs configurations. On the premises that big data in the Space Industry joins the incomplete conversation about the antecedents of BMIs, our study builds on complexity theory and innovation theory as interpretative theoretical lenses, with the aim of developing a research agenda directed towards the development of a theoretical framework for BMI by mean of explorative multiple case study from firms mainly operating in the Space Industry.
Our findings, show the relevance of external antecedents to the BMI. These findings are then organized around a set of propositions, which enforce the up to now scant literature about antecedents and BMI
AI in the Space Industry. Business Model Innovation and its antecedents
No full textAntecedents of Business Model Innovation (BMI) may be many, different in nature, placed at several levels, and they can be internal or external to the firm. The current debate has barely connected such antecedents to the type of innovation of the Business Model (BM), if modular or architectural. To fill this gap, our study draws on multiple exploratory case studies of three innovative firms operating in the Space Industry that over time developed various BMs capable of creating value by exploiting Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Earth Observation (EO). The Copernicus Programme has in fact opened a vast amount of Earth Observation daily data to the world, giving firms the opportunity to compete in new ways and allowing the development of an ever-increasing number of downstream products and services. As a result, AI and Big Data from Space have changed considerably the Space Industry and firms are now in need to reconsider their BMs configurations. On the premises that AI in the Space Industry joins the incomplete conversation about the antecedents of BMIs, our study builds on complexity theory and innovation theory as interpretative theoretical lenses, with the aim of developing a research agenda directed towards the development of a theoretical framework for BMI by mean of explorative multiple case study from firms mainly operating in the Space Industry.
Our findings, show the relevance of external antecedents to the BMI. These findings are then organized around a set of propositions, which enforce the up to now scant literature about antecedents and BMI
The impact of digital technologies on business models. Insights from the space industry
No full textPurpose: In the past decade, in the space industry, many initiatives intended at offering open access to big data from space multiplied. Therefore, firms started adopting business models (BMs) which lever on digital technologies (e.g. cloud computing, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence), to seize these opportunities. Within this scenario, this article aims at answering the following research question: which digital technologies do impact which components the BM is made of? Design/methodology/approach: An exploratory multiple case study approach was used. Three cases operating in the space industry that lever on digital technologies to implement their business were analyzed. Despite concerns regarding reliability and validity, multiple case studies allow greater understanding of causality, and show superiority respect to quantitative studies for theory building. Findings: Big data, system integration (artificial intelligence, high-performance computing) and cloud computing seem to be pivotal in the space industry. It emerges that digital technologies involve all the different areas and components of the BM. Originality/value: This paper sheds light on the impact that digital technologies have on the different BM components. It is only understanding which technologies can support the value proposition, which technologies make the infrastructural part able to support this proposition, which technologies may be helpful for delivering and communicating this value to customers and which technologies may help firms to appropriate the value that it is possible to seize the impact of digital technologies on BM
Open innovation and intellectual capital during emergency: evidence from a case study in telemedicine
No full textThe achievement of innovation performance by means of open innovation (OI) is not automatic and intellectual capital (IC) can play a pivotal role. In 2020, COVID-19 challenged the sanitary systems and required to rapidly introduce innovative health technologies. By unleashing multitudes of brains, OI may help. However, the pandemic introduced social distancing that acted to the detriment of firms’ IC, which should guarantee OI successfulness. This tension pushed us to investigate how OI affects IC to provide effective and timely innovative solutions during crises.
We studied a company that rapidly modified its telemedicine product to provide a Local Health District (LHD) with an effective solution for monitoring COVID-19 patients. By distinguishing between OI developed prior to (ex-ante) and post (ex-post) the COVID-19 outbreak, we show that ex-post OI can build on IC strengthened by ex-ante OI and hence allow higher performance needed to combat the pandemic
Open innovation and technology adoption during emergency. Lessons from a case study in telemedicine in time of COVID-19
No full textFaced with dramatic pressures connected with COVID-19, the health systems were challenged by the need of providing care to COVID-19 patients, without jeopardising the lives of physicians. Telemedicine was a candidate solution, but just having a well-performing technology is not enough. Theoretical models on technology adoption alert that to be effectively and timely adopted, technology–e.g. telemedicine–has to be accepted. In this article, we investigate the innovation journey of a firm (Firm A) that designed and developed a telemedicine platform, collaborating with different actors–adopters (physicians, nurses and patients) and health decision-makers–according to an open innovation (OI) approach. During the COVID-19 emergency, Firm A has rapidly and successfully modified its product to provide a Local Health District with an effective solution for patients monitoring. The case study shows an interwoven relationship between the OI approach adopted in the development of the telemedicine platform and the acceptance of the technology itself, paving the way to a new role for OI: not only an enabler supporting knowledge exchanges, but also an enabler of Technology Acceptanc
Business Models in the Space Sector: A Literature Review Paper
No full textThe existing literature around business models has evolved significantly in recent years and the concept is now used in the context of innovation management, business strategy, and value creation.
However, academic consensus on the definition and the question of how to represent a business model is still missing in innovation management, entrepreneurship or strategic management theory literature.
Several perspectives on business models have been put forward, which essentially highlight the role of different capabilities and activities (including relations and partnerships) that support a cost structure and revenue model in line with the value proposition for a particular customer segment. When applying these models to the space business, there is a need to understand how the various business model components relate to the particular characteristics of that sector. The space industry despite its remarkable potential tends to remain an under-studied sector within the fieldofbusinessstudies. Sofar,fewacademicpapersdescribeoranalyzebusiness models in the space industry. Building on this background, this paper is providing a thorough review of the existing literature on business models and space business models in the era of Space 4.0
Open innovation and technology adoption during emergency. Lessons from a case study in telemedicine in time of COVID-19
No full textFaced with dramatic pressures connected with COVID-19, the health
systems were challenged by the need of providing care to COVID-19
patients, without jeopardising the lives of physicians. Telemedicine was
a candidate solution, but just having a well-performing technology is
not enough. Theoretical models on technology adoption alert that to
be effectively and timely adopted, technology – e.g. telemedicine – has
to be accepted. In this article, we investigate the innovation journey of
a firm (Firm A) that designed and developed a telemedicine platform,
collaborating with different actors – adopters (physicians, nurses and
patients) and health decision-makers – according to an open innovation
(OI) approach. During the COVID-19 emergency, Firm A has rapidly and
successfully modified its product to provide a Local Health District with
an effective solution for patients monitoring. The case study shows an
interwoven relationship between the OI approach adopted in the
development of the telemedicine platform and the acceptance of the
technology itself, paving the way to a new role for OI: not only an
enabler supporting knowledge exchanges, but also an enabler of
Technology Acceptance
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Optimized tuning of an IMC scheme for depth of hypnosis control
No full textThis paper deals with the application of an Internal Model Control strategy to the regulation of the depth of hypnosis in general anesthesia, when propofol is used as hypnotic drug and the bispectral index scale is used as controlled variable. In particular, the inverse of the Hill function is used to linearize the system and then a standard internal model controller is applied. The internal model control filter time constants are determined by applying a particle swarm optimization algorithm on a set of patient models that describes a wide range of population. The Monte Carlo method is then used to demonstrate the robustness of the controller with respect to intra-patient and inter-patient variability
meso-Octaethylporphyrinogen displaying site selectivity in the stepwise synthesis of polymetallic aggregates with interesting redox properties: the π-binding ability of metalla-porphyrinigens
No full textThe present report deals with the synthetic approach to homo- and heteronuclear polymetallic aggregates using the Ni-II-meso-octaethylporphyrinogen complex [{eta(3)-(Et8N4Ni)}{Li(thf)(2)}(2)] (1) as a pi ligand in the reaction with metal halides. The metallation reaction occurs via the probable intermediate of an isomeric form of 1, namely 2, which should be considered an organolithium derivative. Among the polymetallic aggregates, complexes [{eta(5)-(Et8N4Ni)}(2)Co]. 2[Li(thf)(4)] (6) and [{eta(2)-eta(4)-(Et8N4Ni)}(2)Ni-2(mu-Cl)][Li(thf)] (8) display a thermal and photochemical lability. Electron transfer reactions can be photochemically or thermally induced resulting in the formation of metal(0) and oxidized forms of the meso-ctaethylporphyrinogen skeleton
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