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Towards regenerative innovation: A holistic sextuple helix innovation model for pursuing the digital, ecological, and just transitions 走向再生式创新：追求数字化、生态化、公正化转型的整体六螺旋创新模式

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Technovation

Pub Date : 2026-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2026.103480

Gema del Río Castro, María Camino González Fernández, Ángel Uruburu Colsa

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What do firms need to broker knowledge in clusters? absorptive capacity and institutional connectedness. A case study of the Valencian toy Valley 企业需要什么来中介集群中的知识？吸收能力和制度联系。以巴伦西亚玩具谷为例

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Technovation

Pub Date : 2026-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2026.103485

Manuel Expósito-Langa , María José López-Sánchez , Jeanneth Marcela Valdivieso-Uvidia , Emilio Golf-Laville

This study adds to the ongoing discussion regarding the brokerage activities of firms within a cluster. Considering the cluster as a network metaphor derived from the relationships established among actors within it, the existing literature confirms that a firm's location in the network is a strategic factor. However, the literature also argues that overly central positions can have negative or locking effects, so firms must expand their relational horizons outside the cluster to explore new knowledge. This activity, which may seem to reduce the firm's connection to its local network, may increase its value as a knowledge broker. In turn, this brokerage capacity is enhanced by other factors, such as absorptive capacity and links to local supporting institutions. To explore these research questions, an empirical investigation was conducted within the Valencian cluster of the Toy Valley. The results reveal that extra-cluster links benefit the firm's brokerage activity. They also show that meeting certain levels of absorptive capacity and local supporting institution connectivity is necessary for this dynamic to occur. Finally, we consider that this paper makes interesting contributions to the open debate in the literature on the value of knowledge brokers in networks or clusters.

这项研究增加了正在进行的关于集群内公司经纪活动的讨论。将集群视为一种网络隐喻，源于集群内行为者之间建立的关系，现有文献证实了企业在网络中的位置是一个战略因素。然而，文献也认为，过于中心的位置可能会产生负面或锁定效应，因此企业必须将其关系视野扩展到集群之外，以探索新知识。这种活动可能会减少公司与当地网络的联系，但可能会增加其作为知识经纪人的价值。这种经纪能力又因吸收能力和与当地支助机构的联系等其他因素而得到加强。为了探讨这些研究问题，我们在玩具谷的瓦伦西亚集群内进行了实证调查。结果表明，集群外联系有利于公司的经纪活动。它们还表明，达到一定水平的吸收能力和当地支持机构的连通性是实现这种动态的必要条件。最后，我们认为本文对网络或集群中知识经纪人价值的公开讨论做出了有趣的贡献。

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Cyber-physical systems for climate adaptation: Pathways to sustainable technological progress in Greek regions 气候适应的网络物理系统：希腊地区可持续技术进步的途径

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Technovation

Pub Date : 2026-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2026.103479

Elias G. Carayannis , Kyriaki I. Kafka , Pantelis C. Kostis , Theodora Valvi

This study fills the crucial crossover between Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) actions and Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) in the transformed environment within the evolving contexts of Industry 5.0 and Society 5.0. Based on field research conducted in various Greek regions, the analysis examines the strategies of adaptation to climate change and compares them based on the use of sustainable technological innovations. It connects climate resilience strategies with governance, stakeholder involvement, and public policy innovation guided by ambidextrous sustainability principles in CPS. It presents the notion of ambidextrous cybersecurity, combined with the Quintuple Helix Innovation (QHI) framework, as it has the potential to drive the sustainable development of CPS. Industry and Society 5.0 must be balanced between technological advancement and human-centered focus. The QHI framework reveals the joint contributions from government, industry, academia, civil society, and the environment when transitioning into the new era. The analysis proposes strategic interventions that would ensure an optimal alignment of the development of CPS in Industry 5.0 and Society 5.0 towards CCA endeavours, and thereby forward future sustainable progression. These insights have significant implications for policymakers, firms, and academics concerned with sustainability transitions, technological change, and economic development.

本研究填补了在工业5.0和社会5.0不断发展的背景下，转型环境中气候变化适应（CCA）行动和网络物理系统（CPS）之间的关键交叉。基于在希腊不同地区进行的实地研究，该分析考察了适应气候变化的策略，并根据可持续技术创新的使用对它们进行了比较。它将气候适应战略与治理、利益相关者参与和公共政策创新联系起来，并以CPS的双向可持续性原则为指导。它提出了双灵巧网络安全的概念，结合了五元螺旋创新（QHI）框架，因为它有可能推动CPS的可持续发展。工业和社会5.0必须在技术进步和以人为本之间取得平衡。QHI框架揭示了政府、行业、学术界、民间社会和环境在向新时代过渡时的共同贡献。分析提出了战略干预措施，以确保工业5.0和社会5.0中CPS的发展与CCA努力的最佳结合，从而推动未来的可持续发展。这些见解对关注可持续转型、技术变革和经济发展的政策制定者、企业和学者具有重要意义。

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Buying from a friend via Online Platforms? A cautionary tale of using friendship to support transactions 通过在线平台从朋友那里购买？一个利用友谊来支持交易的警世故事

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Technovation

Pub Date : 2026-01-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2026.103483

Weiyi Zhang , Yong Wang , Zhen Sun , Ke Rong

While observational studies have long suggested a positive correlation between social relationships and online transactions, surprisingly little research demonstrates a causal link. Effects identified in observational data generally conflate the causal Information Effect with the non-causal Homophily/environment Effect. Against this background, we conducted a large-scale randomized field experiment on a major Chinese P2P platform, in which we manipulate buyer and seller's awareness of their pre-existing friendship ties. We provide the first empirical evidence that the effect of revealing friendship information between transaction parties is statistically insignificant. To explain this counterintuitive result, we develop a theoretical model of “relationship risk,” proposing that in high-friction settings, the fear of a transaction-related misunderstanding damaging a valuable social bond can counteract the benefits of trust. We also demonstrate that reliance on observational estimates of the “Total Effect” of friendship significantly overstates the benefits of providing friendship information. Our findings contribute to a better understanding of online anonymous P2P transactions, highlight the potential fallacy of relying on observational data in business studies, and introduces the “relationship risk” model to explain why social ties may fail to facilitate, or even hinder, commerce in high-friction settings.

虽然观察性研究长期以来一直表明社交关系与在线交易之间存在正相关关系，但令人惊讶的是，很少有研究表明两者之间存在因果关系。在观测数据中发现的效应通常将因果信息效应与非因果同质性/环境效应混为一谈。在此背景下，我们在中国一家主要的P2P平台上进行了一项大规模的随机现场实验，在实验中，我们操纵了买家和卖家对他们已经存在的友谊关系的认识。我们提供了第一个经验证据，表明交易双方之间的友谊信息披露的影响在统计上不显著。为了解释这个违反直觉的结果，我们建立了一个“关系风险”的理论模型，提出在高摩擦环境中，对交易相关误解破坏宝贵社会关系的恐惧会抵消信任的好处。我们还证明，依赖于对友谊“总效应”的观察性估计，大大夸大了提供友谊信息的好处。我们的发现有助于更好地理解在线匿名P2P交易，强调了在商业研究中依赖观察数据的潜在谬误，并引入了“关系风险”模型来解释为什么在高摩擦环境中，社会关系可能无法促进甚至阻碍商业。

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Can artificial intelligence orientation enhance supply chain trust? evidence of corporate trade credit 以人工智能为导向能否增强供应链信任？公司贸易信用证明

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Technovation

Pub Date : 2026-01-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2026.103486

Yunfang Guan , Hao Tian , Zhen Tang , Ming Tian , Xiaotong Li

Despite extensive research on the internal benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) for organizations, only limited attention has been given to the question of how AI orientation influences external supply chain relationships, particularly with respect to the trust mechanisms associated with financial cooperation. This study addresses this gap by investigating whether and how firms' AI orientation affects suppliers' trade credit provision decisions (a tangible indicator of supply chain trust). Drawing on signaling theory and knowledge spillover theory, we examine how AI orientation serves as both a quality signal and a source of knowledge spillovers that enhance interorganizational trust within supply chain networks. Utilizing a comprehensive dataset of 4183 publicly listed Chinese firms from 2000 to 2022, we find that AI orientation positively influences trade credit provision, with supply chain transparency, knowledge breadth, and generalist CEO serving as positive moderators, while supply chain efficiency acts as a negative moderator. Our findings deepen the understanding of AI's external value creation mechanisms and provide new insights for supply chain relationship management.

尽管对人工智能（AI）对组织的内部利益进行了广泛的研究，但对人工智能导向如何影响外部供应链关系，特别是与金融合作相关的信任机制的问题的关注有限。本研究通过调查企业的人工智能取向是否以及如何影响供应商的贸易信贷提供决策（供应链信任的有形指标）来解决这一差距。利用信号理论和知识溢出理论，我们研究了人工智能取向如何作为质量信号和知识溢出的来源，从而增强供应链网络中组织间的信任。利用2000年至2022年4183家中国上市公司的综合数据集，我们发现人工智能导向正向影响贸易信贷供应，供应链透明度、知识广度和多面手CEO是正向调节因子，而供应链效率是负向调节因子。我们的研究结果加深了对人工智能外部价值创造机制的理解，并为供应链关系管理提供了新的见解。

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Dynamic capabilities at the digital-succession nexus: How family firms navigate dual transformation through three developmental pathways 数字继承关系中的动态能力：家族企业如何通过三条发展路径进行双重转型

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Technovation

Pub Date : 2026-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2026.103484

Lucija Mihotić , Gregor Pfajfar

While digital transformation is crucial for the sustainability of family businesses, existing frameworks inadequately explain how digitalization capabilities develop during succession, particularly in emerging markets. Through a qualitative comparative case study of six Croatian family firms undergoing simultaneous first-time succession and digitalization, this study examines how founder engagement influences the development of dynamic capabilities (DC). Drawing on DCs framework, this study identified three patterns: (1) actively supportive founders enable comprehensive capabilities (sensing, seizing, and transforming) through structured efforts, facilitating successful transitions (2) traditional control with selective permission (i.e., passive support by founders); yields moderate capabilities for partial adaptation; and (3) founders' resistance, despite successors’ enthusiasm, limits firms to basic sensing. These manifest through three pathways: technological adaptation fosters integrative capabilities, external knowledge integration builds absorptive capacity, and internal development enhances organizational learning, each shaped by founder-successor dynamics. This research advances theory by revealing how family relationships can override market forces in capability building, thereby challenging assumptions about the inevitability of digital technology. Findings emphasize that success requires aligned intergenerational support, with founder attitudes as critical gatekeepers. The Croatian context—characterized by institutional voids and cultural tensions—makes these dynamics particularly visible for emerging economies.

虽然数字化转型对家族企业的可持续性至关重要，但现有框架未能充分解释数字化能力在继承过程中如何发展，尤其是在新兴市场。通过对克罗地亚六家同时经历首次继任和数字化的家族企业进行定性比较案例研究，本研究考察了创始人参与度如何影响动态能力（DC）的发展。借鉴dc框架，本研究确定了三种模式：(1)积极支持的创始人通过结构化的努力实现综合能力（感知、抓住和转化），促进成功的转型；(2)具有选择性许可的传统控制（即创始人的被动支持）；产生适度的部分适应能力；(3)尽管后继者热情高涨，但创始人的抵制将公司限制在基本感知上。这些表现通过三个途径：技术适应促进整合能力，外部知识整合建立吸收能力，内部发展增强组织学习，每一个都由创始人-继任者动态形成。这项研究通过揭示家庭关系如何在能力建设中超越市场力量来推进理论，从而挑战了关于数字技术必然性的假设。研究结果强调，成功需要两代人的一致支持，创始人的态度是关键的看门人。克罗地亚的背景——以制度空白和文化紧张为特征——使这些动态在新兴经济体中尤为明显。

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Revisiting technology races: Evidence from Indian healthcare EMR data 重新审视技术竞赛：来自印度医疗保健电子病历数据的证据

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Technovation

Pub Date : 2026-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2026.103481

Sawan Rathi , Anindya S. Chakrabarti , Chirantan Chatterjee , Anthony Vipin Das , Raja Narayanan

Technology replacement is a frequent feature of firms’ innovation journey. However, the internal working of replacement of an old technology by a new one is typically blurred – with three simultaneously interacting mechanisms – demand-pull, technology-push, and a combination of market and non-market institutions. In this paper, we disentangle them using novel electronic medical records (EMR) data from one of the largest eye-care hospital chains in Asia. Specifically, we study a race between a newer high-end medical scanning technology replacing an older and less costly technology. We exploit the COVID-19 lockdown shock in a natural experiment setup, which led to concurrent shifts in the demand and supply of a medical scanning technology. Demand-pull generated via patients propelled new technology adoption as the supply of new technology increased in tandem. This was a cohort-specific phenomenon on the supply side, with an age-identified cohort of physicians driving the adoption, and the replacement was measurably welfare-enhancing. Fixed price for treatment ensures that the replacement was not driven by market-led incentives. We conclude by discussing management of innovation through demand- and supply-side as a strategy for the firms.

技术替代是企业创新过程中经常出现的特征。然而，新技术替代旧技术的内部运作通常是模糊的，有三种同时相互作用的机制——需求拉动、技术推动以及市场和非市场机构的结合。在本文中，我们使用来自亚洲最大的眼科连锁医院之一的新型电子医疗记录（EMR）数据来解开它们。具体来说，我们研究了一种新的高端医疗扫描技术取代旧的、成本更低的技术之间的竞争。我们在自然实验设置中利用COVID-19封锁冲击，导致医疗扫描技术的需求和供应同时发生变化。随着新技术供应的增加，由患者产生的需求拉动推动了新技术的采用。这是供给侧的一种特定群体现象，一群年龄确定的医生推动了这种采用，这种替代可以显著提高福利。治疗的固定价格确保了替代不受市场激励的驱动。最后，我们讨论了通过需求侧和供给侧作为企业战略的创新管理。

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Digital orientation and performance in innovative SMEs: exploring the (curvi)linear effects 创新型中小企业的数字化取向与绩效：探索（曲线）线性效应

IF 10.9 1区管理学 Q1 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL

Technovation

Pub Date : 2026-01-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2026.103478

Ludovica Antenozio , Pilar Marques , Andrea Bikfalvi

Digital orientation plays a key role in the competitiveness of firms, enhancing business processes and improving performance. In this paper, we examine how digital orientation affects innovative SMEs in terms of innovation and financial performance. Our analysis is based on an original panel data set of 250 innovative Italian SMEs over a period of 10 years, constructed using novel methods. We applied the Generalised Method of Moments, considering the curvilinear (inverted U-shaped) effect between businesses’ digital orientation and innovation and financial performance. The study finds support for the positive influence of digital orientation on financial performance, confirming the inverted U-shape, while results for innovation are contrary to the hypothesis raised. Our research provides insightful evidence of the complex relationship between digital orientation and different types of performance, contributing to the discussion on the IT paradox and highlighting a key managerial implication whereby innovative SMEs, rather than steadily increasing digital investment, should focus on optimising their digital assets to sustain both innovation and financial performance.

数字化导向在企业的竞争力、增强业务流程和提高绩效方面发挥着关键作用。在本文中，我们研究了数字化取向如何影响创新型中小企业的创新和财务绩效。我们的分析基于250家创新型意大利中小企业在10年期间的原始面板数据集，使用新颖的方法构建。我们应用了广义矩量法，考虑了企业数字化取向与创新和财务绩效之间的曲线（倒u形）效应。研究结果支持数字化取向对财务绩效的积极影响，证实了倒u型，而创新的结果与提出的假设相反。我们的研究为数字导向与不同类型绩效之间的复杂关系提供了深刻的证据，有助于讨论IT悖论，并强调了一个关键的管理含义，即创新型中小企业不应稳步增加数字投资，而应专注于优化其数字资产，以维持创新和财务绩效。

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Initial opportunity selection for deep technologies: Deep Technology Opportunity Navigator (DTON) 深度技术的初始机会选择：深度技术机会导航器（DTON）

IF 10.9 1区管理学 Q1 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL

Technovation

Pub Date : 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103464

Alexander Myers , Ekaterina Albats , Mariia Kozlova , Julian Yeomans

Deep technology ventures (DTVs) are new firms that aim to commercialize fundamental scientific or engineering breakthroughs and are usually located in the high-cost economies that fund such research. Deep technologies can potentially provide value to many industries or sectors but doing so requires making significant investments amid uncertainty. That situation complicates DTVs’ choice of the opportunity to focus on. We employed an iterative design science approach to develop a practical tool that can help DTVs navigate that complex decision. In doing so, we first reviewed the innovation management literature to identify the important factors in opportunity selection by a DTV. We subsequently interviewed a panel of deep technology entrepreneurship experts to supplement that information. These factors were translated into tool requirements. We analyzed existing opportunity selection tools against these requirements, finding only partial support for the DTV context. The same requirements were used to build an add-on to the widely used market opportunity navigator (MON) tool specifically to inform decision-making in DTVs. We label that advancement the deep technology opportunity navigator (DTON). The DTON was deployed as part of a facilitated workshop with two DTVs to collect feedback and iterate the design of the workshop and tool. The results of those workshops are supplemented by a thought experiment to imagine how it could help DTVs, providing illustrative examples of the potential impact of the new tool. The resulting DTON design is a practical tool that DTVs and other stakeholders can use to guide strategic decision-making, and its validation contributes to the literature on science-based entrepreneurship and opportunity selection.

深度技术企业（dtv）是旨在将基础科学或工程突破商业化的新公司，通常位于资助此类研究的高成本经济体。深度技术可以为许多行业或部门提供潜在价值，但这样做需要在不确定的情况下进行大量投资。这种情况使数字电视选择关注的机会变得复杂。我们采用了一种迭代设计科学方法来开发一种实用的工具，可以帮助dtv进行复杂的决策。为此，我们首先回顾了创新管理文献，以确定数字电视选择机会的重要因素。随后，我们采访了一组深度技术创业专家，以补充这些信息。这些因素被转化为工具需求。我们根据这些要求分析了现有的机会选择工具，发现只有部分支持数字电视环境。同样的需求也用于为广泛使用的市场机会导航（MON）工具构建一个附加组件，专门用于为dtv的决策提供信息。我们将这一进步称为深度技术机遇导航仪（DTON）。DTON是作为一个便利的讲习班的一部分部署的，有两个dtv收集反馈并迭代讲习班和工具的设计。这些研讨会的结果还补充了一个思想实验，以想象它如何帮助数字电视，提供了新工具潜在影响的说明性示例。由此产生的DTON设计是DTVs和其他利益相关者可以用来指导战略决策的实用工具，其验证有助于科学创业和机会选择的文献。

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Harnessing artificial intelligence for ambidextrous innovation: Contingent roles of complementary investments 利用人工智能进行双灵巧创新：互补投资的偶然作用

IF 10.9 1区管理学 Q1 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL

Technovation

Pub Date : 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2026.103475

Yang (Eric) Zhou , Jingjun (David) Xu , Zhiying Liu

While a growing body of literature has explored the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in innovation management, current research lacks understanding of how AI adoption affects firms' ambidextrous innovation and what contextual factors may influence this relationship. Drawing on the innovation search perspective and upper echelons theory, this study theorizes the impact of AI adoption on ambidextrous innovation and evaluates the contingent roles of complementary investments. Using panel data from Chinese listed firms between 2011 and 2022, we find strong evidence that AI adoption significantly increases exploratory innovation (ERI) and exploitative innovation (EII). The mechanisms by which AI adoption affect ERI and EII involve broadening and heightening the scope and depth of knowledge search, respectively. Moderating analyses reveal that executives’ features (e.g., educational level and tenure) exert varying contingent effects. Specifically, executive educational level amplifies the positive impact of AI on EII but has no significant role in the AI–ERI relationship. Furthermore, executives with longer tenure tend to diminish the positive effect of AI on ERI and EII. These findings contribute to the existing literature at the intersection of AI and innovation and provide insights into how firms should make complementary investments to fully capture the benefits of AI.

虽然越来越多的文献探讨了人工智能（AI）在创新管理中的作用，但目前的研究缺乏对人工智能的采用如何影响公司的双灵巧创新以及哪些背景因素可能影响这种关系的理解。利用创新搜索视角和上层梯队理论，研究了人工智能应用对双灵巧创新的影响，并评估了互补投资的偶然性作用。利用2011年至2022年中国上市公司的面板数据，我们发现人工智能的采用显著提高了探索性创新（ERI）和剥削性创新（EII）。人工智能的采用影响ERI和EII的机制分别涉及拓宽和提高知识搜索的范围和深度。调节分析表明，高管的特征（如教育水平和任期）会产生不同的偶然效应。具体而言，高管教育水平放大了人工智能对EII的积极影响，但在AI - eri关系中没有显著作用。此外，任期较长的高管往往会削弱人工智能对ERI和EII的积极影响。这些发现为人工智能与创新交叉领域的现有文献做出了贡献，并为企业应如何进行互补投资以充分利用人工智能的好处提供了见解。

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