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Innovation failure: What we know and what is missing 创新失败：我们知道什么和缺少什么

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Technovation

Pub Date : 2024-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103140

Stefania Testa, Helena Forsman, Elisa Mattarelli, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli

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Sourcing insights elsewhere: The positive influence of academic engagement on scientific impact 从别处寻找见解：学术参与对科学影响的积极影响

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Technovation

Pub Date : 2024-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103112

Carolin Nast , Oscar Llopis , Dima Yankova , Pablo D'Este

Multiple science policy initiatives in recent years have encouraged interaction between academic and non-academic actors as a way of aligning research priorities with societal challenges. Academic engagement, defined as scientists' knowledge-related interactions with non-academics, is recognised as crucial for promoting technological development and effectively addressing societal issues. However, whether such interactions stimulate or compromise fundamental scientific advances remains an open question. This paper contributes to the debate by exploring the extent to which academic engagement increases the production of cutting-edge research. We examine the relationship between scientists' interactions with non-academic actors and the production of high-impact research, using bibliometric indicators and primary data from a large-scale survey of scientists in all scientific fields affiliated with Spanish universities and public research organisations. Our results suggest an overall positive relationship between scientists' interaction with non-academic actors and the production of research findings with high scientific impact. We show, also, that this positive association is contingent on (i) the specific mode of interaction and (ii) the scientists’ previous scientific achievements. We find that modes of interaction that facilitate knowledge exchange and cooperation are particularly conducive to the publication of cutting-edge research, compared to unidirectional forms of knowledge exchange, and that renowned and reputable scientists are the best positioned to leverage the opportunities offered by partnerships with non-academic actors.

近年来，多项科学政策倡议鼓励了学术和非学术行为体之间的互动，作为使研究重点与社会挑战保持一致的一种方式。学术参与被定义为科学家与非学者的知识相关互动，它被认为是促进技术发展和有效解决社会问题的关键。然而，这种相互作用是促进还是损害基础科学进步仍然是一个悬而未决的问题。本文通过探讨学术参与在多大程度上增加了前沿研究的产出，从而有助于辩论。我们研究了科学家与非学术参与者的互动与高影响力研究成果之间的关系，使用了文献计量指标和来自西班牙大学和公共研究机构附属所有科学领域科学家的大规模调查的原始数据。我们的研究结果表明，科学家与非学术行为者的互动与具有高科学影响力的研究成果之间存在总体正相关关系。我们还表明，这种积极的联系取决于(i)特定的互动模式和（ii）科学家以前的科学成就。我们发现，与单向的知识交流形式相比，促进知识交流与合作的互动模式特别有利于前沿研究的发表，而且知名和声誉良好的科学家最能利用与非学术行为体合作所提供的机会。

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A quadruple helix view on smart city: Exploring the effect of internal and external open innovation on public services digitalization 智慧城市的四重螺旋视角：探索内外部开放式创新对公共服务数字化的影响

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Technovation

Pub Date : 2024-11-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103141

Filippo Marchesani, Federica Ceci

Open Innovation and the Quadruple Helix framework have emerged as key concepts in the public policy domain, particularly within smart city initiatives. Contemporary cities face growing expectations to unite multiple actors – including citizens, private and public institutions, and firms, to shape urban development and facilitate social, economic, and urban advancement. Despite the increasing focus on smart cities, a significant research gap remains in understanding the integration of various actors and the implementation of the Open Innovation paradigm—both internally and externally—and how this integration impacts the digitalization process. To address this gap, this paper examines the role of internal and external Open Innovation within the Quadruple Helix framework—encompassing governance, knowledge & academia, civil society, and business & industry—in the development and implementation of digital services in smart cities. Using a longitudinal dataset of Italian cities, this research provides new insights into the mechanisms that underpin smart city innovation, offering empirical evidence that highlights the importance of collaborative ecosystems in shaping the cities of the future. Our findings contribute to the literature on smart cities, emphasizing the need for integrated approaches that harness the potential of diverse actors and Open Innovation to achieve sustained urban advancement.

开放式创新和四重螺旋框架已成为公共政策领域，特别是智慧城市倡议中的关键概念。当代城市面临着越来越多的期望，即联合多方参与者--包括市民、私营和公共机构以及企业--来塑造城市发展，促进社会、经济和城市进步。尽管人们越来越关注智慧城市，但在理解各参与方的整合、开放式创新范式的实施（包括内部和外部）以及这种整合如何影响数字化进程方面，仍存在巨大的研究差距。为了弥补这一空白，本文研究了在智慧城市数字服务的开发和实施过程中，内部和外部开放式创新在四重螺旋框架（包括治理、知识和学术界、公民社会以及商业和工业）中的作用。这项研究利用意大利城市的纵向数据集，对支撑智慧城市创新的机制提出了新的见解，提供了经验证据，强调了合作生态系统在塑造未来城市中的重要性。我们的研究结果为有关智慧城市的文献做出了贡献，强调了利用不同参与者的潜力和开放式创新实现持续城市进步的综合方法的必要性。

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Capturing the breadth of value creation with science fiction storytelling: Evidence from smart service design workshops 用科幻故事捕捉价值创造的广度：来自智能服务设计研讨会的证据

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Technovation

Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103139

Albrecht Fritzsche , Jens-Henrik Söldner

In order to tackle today's grand challenges in society and reach sustainable development goals, innovation needs to take a comprehensive look at value creation and human well-being. Social systems theory suggests that value creation and well-being can be addressed from the perspectives of various functional systems that attribute meaning on the basis of different social operations, such as economy, health, art, etc. On the example of smart services as a key digital technology, we study how science fiction affects the number of these functional systems referenced in design. We compare smart service design activities performed during eight ideation and prototyping workshops. Half of the workshops used a conventional value proposition canvassing approach to address customer tasks, pains and gains. The others used science fiction plots for dramatic storytelling about smart services. Overall, 29 separate smart service design projects were performed during the workshops. Using qualitative content analysis, references to different functional systems are identified. The findings indicate that science fiction inspires references to more functional systems and highlights tensions between different forms of value creation and aspects of well-being that are essential for tackling grand challenges.

为了应对当今社会的巨大挑战，实现可持续发展目标，创新需要全面审视价值创造和人类福祉。社会系统理论认为，可以从经济、健康、艺术等各种功能系统的角度来探讨价值创造和福祉问题。以作为关键数字技术的智能服务为例，我们研究了科幻小说如何影响设计中参考的这些功能系统的数量。我们比较了在八个构思和原型设计工作坊中开展的智能服务设计活动。半数研讨会采用传统的价值主张调查方法来解决客户的任务、痛苦和收益。其他研讨会则使用科幻小说情节来讲述智能服务的戏剧性故事。总体而言，研讨会期间共开展了 29 个独立的智能服务设计项目。通过定性内容分析，确定了对不同功能系统的引用。研究结果表明，科幻小说激发了对更多功能系统的引用，并突出了不同形式的价值创造和对应对重大挑战至关重要的福祉方面之间的紧张关系。

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A classification framework for generative artificial intelligence for social good 促进社会公益的生成式人工智能分类框架

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Technovation

Pub Date : 2024-11-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103129

Jack Crumbly , Raktim Pal , Nezih Altay

Many policy makers and corporate leaders are adjusting their strategies to harness the power of GenAI. There are numerous debates on how GenAI would fundamentally change existing business models. However, there is not much discussion on roles of generative AI in the domain of social good. Broader views covering potential opportunities of GenAI to enable diverse initiatives in the social good space are largely missing. We intend to reduce the gap by developing a classification framework that should allow researchers gauge the potential impact of GenAI for social good initiatives. Through case analysis, we assess how value-added abilities of GenAI may influence various social good initiatives. We adopt/develop two loosely connected classification frameworks that are grounded in task-technology fit (TTF) theory. Subsequently, we investigate how our analyses of GenAI initiatives utilizing different dimensions of these two frameworks may be synthesized to provide appropriate explanation for potential success of GenAI for social good. We develop five propositions that will provide guidance to practitioners and researchers. The theoretically grounded analysis of 21 GenAI for social good use cases based on the two classification frameworks, and the resulting propositions are the original contributions of this paper to the AI for social good literature.

许多政策制定者和企业领导者正在调整战略，以利用 GenAI 的力量。关于 GenAI 如何从根本上改变现有商业模式的讨论不绝于耳。然而，关于生成式人工智能在社会公益领域的作用的讨论并不多。关于 GenAI 在社会公益领域实现各种倡议的潜在机会的更广泛观点，在很大程度上也是缺失的。我们打算通过开发一个分类框架来缩小这一差距，该框架应能让研究人员衡量 GenAI 对社会公益活动的潜在影响。通过案例分析，我们评估了 GenAI 的增值能力如何影响各种社会公益活动。我们采用/开发了两个以任务-技术契合（TTF）理论为基础的松散连接的分类框架。随后，我们将研究如何综合利用这两个框架的不同维度对 GenAI 计划进行分析，从而为 GenAI 在社会公益方面的潜在成功提供适当的解释。我们提出了五个命题，为从业人员和研究人员提供指导。基于这两个分类框架对 21 个 GenAI 社会公益用例进行的理论分析，以及由此产生的命题，是本文对人工智能社会公益文献的原创性贡献。

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Digital technology and innovation:The impact of blockchain application on enterprise innovation 数字技术与创新：区块链应用对企业创新的影响

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Technovation

Pub Date : 2024-11-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103136

Zhaochen Li , Zimu Xu

Blockchain as a frontier digital technology provides new opportunities for innovation. This paper builds a theoretical framework utilizing the Resource-Based View (RBV), and empirically examines the impact of blockchain application on enterprise innovation, based on panel data from Chinese listed companies spanning from 2007 to 2020. This paper finds that the adoption of blockchain applications significantly promotes enterprise innovation, through mechanisms of improving operational efficiency and expanding operational scope. With regard to contextuality, the positive effect of blockchain applications on innovation is more pronounced in enterprises with higher levels of technological and capital accumulation. With regard to temporality, innovation at faster paces can better realise the benefits of blockchain applications. This paper provides robust empirical evidence derived from a large sample, thereby enhancing our understanding of this dynamic relationship and suggesting directions for future research.

区块链作为一种前沿数字技术，为创新提供了新的机遇。本文利用资源观（RBV）构建了理论框架，并基于中国上市公司2007-2020年的面板数据，实证检验了区块链应用对企业创新的影响。本文发现，区块链应用通过提高运营效率和扩大运营范围的机制，极大地促进了企业创新。在情境性方面，区块链应用对创新的积极影响在技术和资本积累水平较高的企业中更为明显。在时间性方面，以更快的速度进行创新可以更好地实现区块链应用的效益。本文通过大量样本提供了可靠的经验证据，从而加深了我们对这一动态关系的理解，并为今后的研究指明了方向。

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Exploring and investigating the complementarity and multidimensionality of innovation for sustainability research: Past present and future 探索和研究可持续性研究创新的互补性和多面性：过去、现在和未来

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Technovation

Pub Date : 2024-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103127

Vijay Pereira , Asha KS. Nair , Som Sekhar Bhattacharyya

Innovation and sustainability are distinct but complementary topics, and hence, complex, multidimensional, and multidisciplinary. It is thus natural that research on ‘innovation for sustainability’, though important, is largely scattered and unstructured. This article aims to rectify this gap by developing a systematic study, quantitatively depicting the knowledge structure and the intellectual progress of innovation for sustainability in the business management literature. To this end, we applied bibliometric analysis to study 1842 innovation for sustainability articles from the ‘Web of Science’ database. Our robust methodology included deploying the document co-citation analysis, co-word analysis, and thematic evolution to trace the intellectual structure and conceptual structure of the innovation for sustainability field. Further, through a thorough qualitative content analysis, we developed a comprehensive conceptual framework comprising drivers, innovation practices, and performance indicators of innovation for sustainability. Additionally, we examined the latest trending articles based on total local citations (TLC) and total global citations (TGC) to delineate the potential future research directions. Overall, thus, this research contributed to the innovation for sustainability literature by combining a tripartite methodology of bibliometric analysis, qualitative content analysis, and analysis of trending articles to determine the intellectual structure and potential future research directions.

创新和可持续性是两个截然不同但又相辅相成的主题，因此也是复杂的、多层面的和多学科的。因此，关于 "可持续发展创新 "的研究虽然重要，但大多分散且无序，这是很自然的。本文旨在通过开展系统性研究，定量描述商业管理文献中有关可持续发展创新的知识结构和思想进步，从而弥补这一不足。为此，我们运用文献计量学分析方法，对 "科学网 "数据库中的 1842 篇可持续发展创新文章进行了研究。我们采用的可靠方法包括文献共引分析、共词分析和主题演化，以追踪可持续发展创新领域的知识结构和概念结构。此外，通过全面的定性内容分析，我们建立了一个由可持续发展创新的驱动因素、创新实践和绩效指标组成的综合概念框架。此外，我们还根据本地总被引频次（TLC）和全球总被引频次（TGC）对最新的趋势性文章进行了研究，以确定未来潜在的研究方向。总之，本研究将文献计量分析、定性内容分析和趋势文章分析三者相结合，确定了知识结构和未来潜在的研究方向，从而为可持续发展创新文献做出了贡献。

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Facilitator or figurehead? The impact of academician shareholder on corporate innovation: Evidence from China 促进者还是形象代言人？院士股东对企业创新的影响：来自中国的证据

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Technovation

Pub Date : 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103138

Liangcheng Wang, Yizheng Chen, Wendi Li

Investment by academicians with resource advantages can serve as a vital channel for promoting innovation. In this study, we investigate whether and how academician shareholders who are esteemed fellows or candidates of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering impact corporate innovation. Using a sample from China, we document a positive association between academician shareholders and corporate innovation. Our channel analysis reveals four potential channels through which academician shareholders promote corporate innovation: innovative human capital, investor protection, top management team attention to innovation and reduction in innovation uncertainty. Moreover, in line with the resource-based view and incomplete contract theory, our findings indicate that the positive association is more pronounced in firms with directors appointed by academician shareholders, without state ownership, and with multiple large shareholders. Finally, our findings indicate that academician shareholders can enhance open innovation, attract government subsidies, shorten the time it takes for corporate patent applications to be granted, and improve firm performance.

具有资源优势的院士投资可以成为促进创新的重要渠道。在本研究中，我们调查了身为中国科学院和中国工程院受人尊敬的研究员或候选人的院士股东是否以及如何影响企业创新。通过中国的样本，我们记录了院士股东与企业创新之间的正相关关系。我们的渠道分析揭示了院士股东促进企业创新的四个潜在渠道：创新型人力资本、投资者保护、高层管理团队对创新的关注以及创新不确定性的降低。此外，与基于资源的观点和不完全契约理论相一致，我们的研究结果表明，在董事由院士股东任命、无国有股权和有多个大股东的企业中，正相关关系更为明显。最后，我们的研究结果表明，院士股东可以加强开放式创新，吸引政府补贴，缩短企业专利申请获得授权的时间，提高企业绩效。

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China's technological catch-up through foreign IP acquisitions: Disaggregating the effects of cross-national distance 中国通过收购外国知识产权实现技术赶超：分解跨国距离的影响

IF 11.1 1区管理学 Q1 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL

Technovation

Pub Date : 2024-11-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103137

Xinwei Shi , Christopher Williams , Ke Rong

While the effects of proximity on the technological catch-up of emerging economy firms are well documented, little is known about how the sub-dimensions of cross-national distance impact such firms' acquisition of foreign IP. Cross-national distance is a complex, multi-dimensional construct that has the potential to influence catch-up in different ways, especially for Chinese firms. We use the established Wharton indicators of cross-national distance (Berry et al., 2010) to understand foreign IP acquisition by Chinese firms over a 10-year period. Results show: (1) different sub-dimensions of distance have different direct effects on foreign IP acquisition, (2) a positive effect of knowledge distance on IP acquisition interacts with three other forms of distance, (3) the most aggressive foreign IP acquisition strategies are linked to only three forms of distance, and (4) the impact of disaggregated distance depends on IP asset type and whether the acquirer is in manufacturing or services. Results provide new insight into China's technological catch-up and the complex, multi-dimensional nature of international proximity influencing technological catch-up through acquisitions.

尽管近距离对新兴经济体企业技术赶超的影响已被充分记录，但人们对跨国距离的子维度如何影响这些企业获取外国知识产权却知之甚少。跨国距离是一个复杂的多维结构，有可能以不同方式影响赶超，尤其是对中国企业而言。我们使用沃顿商学院已确立的跨国距离指标（Berry 等人，2010 年）来了解中国企业在 10 年间获取外国知识产权的情况。结果表明：(1) 距离的不同子维度对国外知识产权收购有不同的直接影响；(2) 知识距离对知识产权收购的积极影响与其他三种形式的距离相互作用；(3) 最积极的国外知识产权收购战略仅与三种形式的距离有关；(4) 分类距离的影响取决于知识产权资产类型以及收购方是制造业还是服务业。研究结果为中国的技术赶超以及通过收购影响技术赶超的国际距离的复杂性和多维性提供了新的视角。

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Resourcing radical innovation: Leveraging from the mainstream to create the newstream 为激进创新提供资源：利用主流创造新主流

IF 11.1 1区管理学 Q1 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL

Technovation

Pub Date : 2024-11-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103126

Mario Sergio Salerno , Ana Paula Paes Leme Barbosa , Tiago Paz Lasmar , Gina Colarelli O'Connor

The literature emphasizes the importance of structural ambidexterity in a company's ability to consistently produce radical innovation (RI). Large companies possess a multitude of resources for product development in their mainstream: laboratories; hardware; software; human competencies; and specialized organizational functions in engineering, marketing, and finance, among others. The potential of these resources is immense, and it is not rational to duplicate them for RI development; it is better to leverage them when necessary for a newstream project. However, prior research has revealed that routine rigidities can pose key obstacles to leveraging resources from the mainstream for the newstream. Such rigidities, if not addressed, can hinder RI. Further, the factors facilitating resource leverage must be better understood. Based on data from over 12 years at a leading global high-tech company, this study focuses on how companies manage to leverage mainstream resources for newstream RI projects. The emergent grounded model contributes by elucidating the enablers and constraints within the mainstream and newstream domains for leveraging mainstream resources into the newstream. Additionally, the study proposes a viable configuration of the innovation management system that effectively eases the systematic leveraging of resources from the mainstream to the newstream.

文献强调了结构灵活性对公司持续产生激进创新（RI）能力的重要性。大公司拥有众多产品开发的主流资源：实验室、硬件、软件、人才能力以及工程、营销和财务等专业组织职能。这些资源的潜力是巨大的，重复利用这些资源进行 RI 开发是不合理的，最好是在必要时将其用于新项目。然而，以往的研究表明，常规的僵化做法可能会成为利用主流资源促进新主流项目的主要障碍。如果不解决这些僵化问题，就会阻碍区域一体化进程。此外，必须更好地了解促进资源杠杆作用的因素。本研究以一家全球领先的高科技公司 12 年来的数据为基础，重点研究公司如何利用主流资源开展新流程 RI 项目。该新兴基础模型阐明了将主流资源利用到新领域的主流和新领域中的促进因素和限制因素。此外，该研究还提出了一种可行的创新管理系统配置，可有效缓解从主流资源到新资源的系统性杠杆作用。

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