Pub Date : 2014-08-06DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2014.064152
Jennie Björk, Magnus Karlsson, M. Magnusson
Web-enabled tools for ideation are becoming increasingly diffused in companies, but their true impact on innovation performance has been questioned. A factor that can explain some of the so far missing performance of these firm-internal systems for ideation is a lack of attention to the demand-side of ideation. Frequently, the focus of ideation is put more or less unilaterally on the supply-side, with the aim to generate as many or as good ideas as possible, instead of focusing on innovation needs. The aim of this article is to describe and analyse demand-driven collaborative ideation, with a particular emphasis on its management aspects. In order to empirically investigate how to manage this new approach to ideation, a case study of Ericsson, a Swedish multi-national corporation, has been performed. The results highlight that incentives, visibility and resources are three main components of demand-driven collaborative ideation and outline key challenges with this new approach to ideation.
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Pub Date : 2014-08-06DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2014.064153
Michael Tretter, H. Pechlaner, S. Märk
This paper deals with the assumption that creativity is a necessary catalyst for the development of innovation and competitiveness, as well as the quality of life in urban areas. The hitch here is also the problem: how is it possible to measure or ascertain all of the variables which help to determine the term 'creativity'? Within this study the authors have created two case studies, both of which have been heavily influenced by the automotive industry. One of the cities, Graz, was recently awarded the title 'City of Design' while the other, Ingolstadt, is still attempting to implement an atmosphere of creative thinking. These two extreme cases were analysed by a qualitative survey with the help of GABEK®. This method is used to gain new insights into situations and processes. In summary, it can be said that industry can act as an incubator, but the location must assume the notion of 'being creative' and implement it within their policies.
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Pub Date : 2014-08-06DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2014.064147
Natalia Irena Gust-Bardon
Innovation has become of great importance to entrepreneurs, governments and scientists, since it has been recognised as the key factor to growth and competitiveness. Studies dedicated to innovation have proven that innovation and knowledge capital are highly concentrated in a minority of urban regions. The purpose of this paper is to identify main components and driving forces behind an innovation process in order to support regions in organising their 'endogenous innovation process'. To that end, we study models of an innovation process and analyse the case of Sophia Antipolis. Phenomena occurring over the years in Sophia Antipolis are to be seen as a shift from a linear paradigm of innovation processes into a systemic one.
{"title":"Regional development in the context of an innovation process","authors":"Natalia Irena Gust-Bardon","doi":"10.1504/IJIRD.2014.064147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIRD.2014.064147","url":null,"abstract":"Innovation has become of great importance to entrepreneurs, governments and scientists, since it has been recognised as the key factor to growth and competitiveness. Studies dedicated to innovation have proven that innovation and knowledge capital are highly concentrated in a minority of urban regions. The purpose of this paper is to identify main components and driving forces behind an innovation process in order to support regions in organising their 'endogenous innovation process'. To that end, we study models of an innovation process and analyse the case of Sophia Antipolis. Phenomena occurring over the years in Sophia Antipolis are to be seen as a shift from a linear paradigm of innovation processes into a systemic one.","PeriodicalId":260303,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development","volume":"196 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131841744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-08-06DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2014.064151
Damjan Marušić, B. Marusic
This paper discusses an innovative approach towards addressing and measuring quality of living environments. It introduces the model which talks about quality of living environments via quality of time spent in a resident's daily routine. The aim is to elucidate an approach which can help planners and decision makers as well as ordinary people to create or identify suitable and effective environments for well-being. It examines relationships between characteristic profiles, their activities and the environments they are involved in, analysing three key parameters: time balance, financial balance and time-quality balance.
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There remain several unexplored questions in relation to the analysis of regional innovation systems (RISs). This is the case, for example, about the nature of some types of system failures that avoid developing innovations in regional economies. In this case, system failures may hinder the operation and development of innovation systems as a whole, and thus opening up the possibility of a new policy rationale that replaces the neoclassical market failure concept. The objective of this paper is to discuss the role that might be played by science, technology and innovation (STI) policy when some types of system failures appear. Particularly, the possibility of finding these failures in emerging economies is evaluated as a consequence of immature innovation systems characterising these countries. In this paper, the case of the province of Michoacan in Mexico is evaluated.
Pub Date : 2014-08-06DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2014.064155
I. Salavisa, Cristina Sousa
In this paper we deal with the innovation strategies of software for telecommunications companies that develop innovative products through the creation, use and adaptation of various resources. In addition to in-house capabilities and resources, they resort to external sources via market and non-market transactions. We will focus on non-market exchanges, namely networks. The main goal is to determine if different innovation strategies (mostly radical versus mostly incremental) are associated with distinct networking strategies. With this aim, we adopted a specific analysis of innovation networks, which deals separately with the two main types of resource: knowledge and complementary assets. Results reveal that there are clear-cut differences in the network configurations of radical versus incremental innovators, particularly in the access to knowledge. They also give support to the adequacy of using a fine-grained analysis. These findings can therefore add to the debate on the most favourable networking strategies for innovation.
{"title":"Innovation strategies and network configurations in knowledge-intensive services","authors":"I. Salavisa, Cristina Sousa","doi":"10.1504/IJIRD.2014.064155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIRD.2014.064155","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we deal with the innovation strategies of software for telecommunications companies that develop innovative products through the creation, use and adaptation of various resources. In addition to in-house capabilities and resources, they resort to external sources via market and non-market transactions. We will focus on non-market exchanges, namely networks. The main goal is to determine if different innovation strategies (mostly radical versus mostly incremental) are associated with distinct networking strategies. With this aim, we adopted a specific analysis of innovation networks, which deals separately with the two main types of resource: knowledge and complementary assets. Results reveal that there are clear-cut differences in the network configurations of radical versus incremental innovators, particularly in the access to knowledge. They also give support to the adequacy of using a fine-grained analysis. These findings can therefore add to the debate on the most favourable networking strategies for innovation.","PeriodicalId":260303,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124349831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-07-24DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2013.055249
G. Karagouni, Aimilia Protogerou, Y. Caloghirou
This article explores the impact of autotelic capabilities on the performance of knowledge-intensive low-tech ventures at start-up stage in terms of initial competitive advantage, survival, growth and innovativeness. It also examines the effect of dynamic capabilities on the performance of these newly-established firms and indicates links among the two types of capabilities. The paper provides evidence that the development of autotelic capabilities can play a significant role in the creation of new knowledge-intensive low-tech ventures. The dimensions of autotelic capabilities, bricolage, improvisational and transcendental capabilities create novel business concepts and establish successful ventures in saturated competitive arenas. Autotelic capabilities act as precursors of dynamic capabilities. The study indicates that low-tech companies that invest and build their strategy on knowledge intensiveness and innovation may develop relatively strong DCs to gain competitive advantage.
{"title":"The impact of autotelic and dynamic capabilities on the performance of knowledge-intensive, low-tech ventures","authors":"G. Karagouni, Aimilia Protogerou, Y. Caloghirou","doi":"10.1504/IJIRD.2013.055249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIRD.2013.055249","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the impact of autotelic capabilities on the performance of knowledge-intensive low-tech ventures at start-up stage in terms of initial competitive advantage, survival, growth and innovativeness. It also examines the effect of dynamic capabilities on the performance of these newly-established firms and indicates links among the two types of capabilities. The paper provides evidence that the development of autotelic capabilities can play a significant role in the creation of new knowledge-intensive low-tech ventures. The dimensions of autotelic capabilities, bricolage, improvisational and transcendental capabilities create novel business concepts and establish successful ventures in saturated competitive arenas. Autotelic capabilities act as precursors of dynamic capabilities. The study indicates that low-tech companies that invest and build their strategy on knowledge intensiveness and innovation may develop relatively strong DCs to gain competitive advantage.","PeriodicalId":260303,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129323143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-07-24DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2013.055237
P. Kiryushin, B. Mulloth, T. Iakovleva
Development of regional innovation system (RIS) and its role in regional development is a debated research topic. Most of the theoretical and empirical works are traditionally focused on RIS situated within a national context and applies institutional theory. Recently the application of RIS concept was debated in relation to cross-border settings. Extending this line of research, we aim to study the role of entrepreneurship in one particular industry - cleantech - in the development of a cross-border RIS using the example of Oresund, Swedish-Danish transnational region. Eighteen interviews with regional stakeholders related to academia, business and administration were conducted. Our findings reveal that in order for innovations in cleantech to be realised, the efforts of entrepreneurs are necessary to promote knowledge spillover from research institutes and 'locked' systems into business environments. Further, encouraging research-based innovations related to social sciences significantly extends the possibility of building robust RIS.
{"title":"Developing cross-border regional innovation systems with clean technology entrepreneurship: the case of Øresund","authors":"P. Kiryushin, B. Mulloth, T. Iakovleva","doi":"10.1504/IJIRD.2013.055237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIRD.2013.055237","url":null,"abstract":"Development of regional innovation system (RIS) and its role in regional development is a debated research topic. Most of the theoretical and empirical works are traditionally focused on RIS situated within a national context and applies institutional theory. Recently the application of RIS concept was debated in relation to cross-border settings. Extending this line of research, we aim to study the role of entrepreneurship in one particular industry - cleantech - in the development of a cross-border RIS using the example of Oresund, Swedish-Danish transnational region. Eighteen interviews with regional stakeholders related to academia, business and administration were conducted. Our findings reveal that in order for innovations in cleantech to be realised, the efforts of entrepreneurs are necessary to promote knowledge spillover from research institutes and 'locked' systems into business environments. Further, encouraging research-based innovations related to social sciences significantly extends the possibility of building robust RIS.","PeriodicalId":260303,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133801528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-07-24DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2013.055250
Sandra Nunes, L. Carvalho, Teresa Costa
Innovation today is an important means for firms to achieve competitive advantage, but few firms recognise the importance of cooperation in developing innovative processes. This paper is a study of cooperation in innovation in southern Europe (Portugal, Spain, Greece and Italy) and analyses how R%D, incoming spillovers, public support, appropriability of innovation, financial constraints on innovation, firm size and sector can contribute to cooperative behaviour in firms. The literature review demonstrates that cooperation encompasses sharing R%D costs and risks, reducing duplication spillovers, internalisation and introducing other benefits. This paper uses Community Innovation Survey (CIS 4) micro-data for the four southern European countries in question and applies a logistic regression in order to study cooperative behaviour in innovation. We believe that the results relative to these countries will provide important clues as to different arrangements of cooperation between firms and will highlight innovation patterns between them.
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Pub Date : 2013-07-24DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2013.055236
Aelita Skaržauskienė, Steponas Jonušauskas
Today's organisations change the focus from the ineffective bureaucratic models to more flexible communities of professional workers such as online communities, virtual self-managing teams, networked organisations, etc. Such extreme challenges require radical solutions and the transformation of leadership development. In this context, it is critical to understand what are the innovative key competencies to be developed in order to deal with the fluidity and complexity of the world. The changing conditions in global environment require systems thinking, flexibility, networking and collaboration, innovation and the courage to embrace uncertainty and ambiguity. The paper aims to clarify the relationship between intelligence competencies and leadership performance in public administration organisations. The relevance of systems thinking and other intelligence competencies as innovative future competencies was disclosed in the context of leadership in the complex world.
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