Pub Date : 2025-10-25DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103389
Leila Tahmooresnejad , Ekaterina Turkina
This paper integrates insights from the literature on invention networks, gender, and the sociological literature to analyze differences in how firms participate in man-led and woman-led invention networks. We contribute to the current debate on whether clustering or boundary-spanning network properties are more important for invention by introducing gender as an important factor. We empirically test our hypotheses on a sample of more than 30,000 firms from around the world over time using OECD REGPAT global patent data. Our findings indicate that different network properties are important for firm invention in woman-led and man-led innovation networks. In man-led invention networks, firms strongly benefit from being in a boundary-spanning position and are negatively affected by clustering, whereas in woman-led invention networks, boundary spanning has a less pronounced positive effect, and clustering has a positive rather than negative effect. Our findings have substantial implications for firms and policymakers interested in invention and contribute to the studies of gender and invention networks.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-24DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103385
Lisa Whitelaw, Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo
Large established organizations face the 'paradox of institutionalizing spontaneity'. While they recognize the need for innovation and create enabling structures to support it, these very structures can inadvertently constrain the spontaneous qualities essential for breakthrough innovation. This longitudinal ethnographic study explores how organizational members navigate this paradox by following six innovation projects over three years at a multinational technology company. Our processual analysis that combined participant observation, interviews, diaries, and project-related documents reveals that innovation projects progress through tactically re-created 'spaces for play'—temporary leeway that innovators create for themselves within existing organizational structures. We show how these spaces develop through recurring patterns of opening, maintaining, and reconstituting and how project teams employ situated tactics to creatively leverage specific organizational structures to open and sustain them. Projects advance by realigning with company strategy to re-open space for play, while those failing to connect either stop or pivot. Our findings suggest that innovation-enabling structures alone are insufficient. Innovators must continuously use tactical combinations to create and sustain temporary space for play as leeway for innovation, generating emerging impacts that influence organizational contexts and shape subsequent project developments. We also contribute both conceptual refinements and empirical grounding to the mainly theoretical body of knowledge on organizational entrepreneurship and space for play.
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Blockchain technology has been praised as a means to improve collaboration within and beyond the value chain. Key features, such as transparency and the immutability of data in a blockchain, lead to higher quality and enhanced product lifetime, improved circularity, and, ultimately, more reliable supply and cheaper offerings. Nevertheless, the promises of blockchain technology are not mirrored in reality. Based on a multiple-embedded case study from the wind turbine industry, this paper sheds light on how various paradoxes on the individual, intra-, and inter-organizational levels hamper the successful implementation of blockchain technology. Unlike general B2B collaboration challenges, these paradoxes are rooted in blockchain's technological architecture—particularly its decentralization, immutability, and trustless nature—which introduce tensions that are both temporal and contextual. These paradoxes are both identifiable on the contextual level (the setting in which blockchain technology is implemented) and on the temporal level (the impact of both prior experiences and the perception of future commitments and collaboration). Theoretically, the paper provides a more nuanced perspective on the existing literature on blockchain technology, which has traditionally been marked by transaction-cost-based frames of understanding while emphasizing the role of individuals and organizations in blockchain adoption. The presented analysis also has managerial implications in terms of the essential need to understand blockchain as more than a mere (software) implementation exercise.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-23DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103391
Cornelis Eldering , Jan van den Ende , Willem Hulsink
Corporations, universities, governments, and other large organisations sponsor business incubation centres to support entrepreneurship and new venturing. These organisations expect certain performance outcomes from their incubation centres. Incubator programmes can be established through partnerships or as part of a Triple Helix approach, involving multiple sponsorship organisations. However, it is still unclear how the governance of a multiple sponsorship configuration affects business incubation performance and design.
This paper examines the governance of business incubation centres by multiple sponsors through the lens of agency theory. This theory is frequently used to understand the governance of principals and agents in transaction cost economics and political sciences. We apply agency theory to business incubation to investigate: “How does governance by multiple sponsorship organisations affect business incubation performance outcomes for sponsors?” We distinguish three underlying variables of business incubation governance: the formation process of sponsors who team up to start a business incubator, the coordination process among sponsors, and the relationship between each sponsor and the business incubator in terms of control versus trust. We distinguish four performance outcomes for the sponsor: learning, earning, returning, and branding. Furthermore, as part of our research approach, we distinguish between internal sponsors (who host or own the incubator) and external sponsors (i.e., the European Space Agency).
Our findings suggest that a joint formation relates to a higher coordination level than a sequential formation. Furthermore, higher levels of coordination lead to better performance outcomes for all sponsors, whereas lower levels may result in some sponsors obtaining better performance outcomes than others. Differences in the relationship between each sponsor and the business incubator have a positive effect when coordination is high and a negative effect when coordination is low. We conclude with a tentative theoretical model to express the impact of governance on business incubation performance in terms of formation, coordination, and type of relationship.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-22DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103394
Ke Rong , Yue Zhao , Zhengyao Kang , Ronaldo Parente
This study examines the All-In-One (AIO) strategy, a digital platform strategy characterized by creating and executing an organized multiproduct ecosystem that integrates highly comprehensive and varied offerings. Using multi-case study methodology, we propose a framework that explains the definition and characteristics of the AIO strategy. By adopting a dual perspective that integrates both demand- and supply-side perspectives, our findings indicate that the AIO strategy facilitates supply-side resource bundling of complementary and exclusive resources and enhances demand-side value creation for users. Moreover, our study highlights the role of cross-product data capabilities and institutional factors in shaping digital platforms’ adoption of the AIO strategy. This research contributes to a deeper understanding of platform innovations on both the supply and demand sides in developing a multiproduct ecosystem.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-22DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103393
Pinar Ozturk , Yue Han , Jie Ren
Finding creative solutions to large-scale and complex problems, such as societal challenges, is often hard. Crowdsourcing has emerged as a valuable tool for such challenges, using diverse perspectives from general society to enhance creative problem-solving. The componential theory of creativity highlights creativity-related processes and domain knowledge as key components of creative output. Drawing from this theory, we examine how creativity support architectures and levels of task-knowledge intensity influence crowd creativity in crowdsourcing contexts.
Through an online experiment, we compared two support architectures, remixing and external stimuli: crowd members were presented with ideas previously generated by other participants to foster a collective creative process. Our findings suggest that remixing prompts higher levels of crowd creativity than external stimuli. Further, the crowd exhibits greater creativity when working on low knowledge-intensity tasks, compared with high knowledge-intensity tasks, whereas the influence of support architectures on crowd creativity remains significant across knowledge-intensity levels.
This study contributes to the crowdsourcing literature by applying the componential theory of creativity to understand how creativity support architectures interact with task-knowledge intensity to affect crowd creative output. In addition, practical implications for harnessing collective intelligence to address societal challenges and other large-scale, complex problems are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-22DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103395
Jian Zhang , Ziming Yu , Wenting Liang , Xiaojie Men , Xuanting Ye , Ximing Yin
The varying firm life cycle stages represent a critical factor that should be accounted when evaluating the effects of innovation policy instrument mixes. Building on firm life cycle theory, this study employs the Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator with high-dimensional fixed effects (PPML-HDFE) to explore the impact of three supply and demand side innovation policy instruments (innovation subsidies, tax incentives, and public innovation procurement) and their mixes on firm innovation across different life cycle stages. The results reveal that, overall, the supply-demand policy instruments mixes outperform individual instruments in incentivizing innovation, particularly for high-tech manufacturing firms. Furthermore, mature-stage firms demonstrate superior capacity to leverage policy support, achieving the most significant innovation gains, regardless of the specific form of instruments or their mixes. The findings suggest policymakers should transcend conventional thinking and policy biases, placing particular emphasis on firms' developmental stages, practical needs, and comparative advantages. Policy formulation should transform from a "one-size-fits-all" approach to differentiated and targeted strategies, thereby enhancing the actual empowerment effect of policies on innovation development.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-22DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103390
Waqar Nadeem , Abdul R. Ashraf , Huda Khan , V. Kumar
Addressing the Sustainable Development Goal related to climate change through artificial intelligence (AI) is an important area of interest for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. This study examines how AI based strategies, hereafter AI strategies – including AI data management and quality, AI analytics, and AI-driven insights employed by the firms – impacting the climate change performance. It emphasizes the mediating role of climate crisis management (risk identification, risk assessment, and crisis response monitoring and treatment) and the moderating role of responsible AI. Using survey data from 235 managers of firms in the USA and Canada, findings reveal that climate risk identification and assessment significantly mediate the positive effects of AI strategies on climate change performance. These indirect effects are stronger under conditions of high responsible AI embeddedness. While crisis response monitoring and treatment also show a positive indirect relationship with climate change performance, this effect does not significantly differ based on the level of responsible AI. The research contributes to crisis management literature by highlighting the critical role of embedding responsible AI strategies for effective climate crisis management, especially in accurately identifying crisis types and assessing their severity. Additionally, we provide a structured 3x3 matrix that offers managerial guidelines drawing insights from data-derived findings and present critical research avenues for future exploration. Practically, these findings assist managers in effectively integrating responsible AI practices into crisis management processes to enhance firms’ climate performance and resilience.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-16DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103383
Begoña Rodríguez-Romera , Jon Mikel Zabala-Iturriagagoitia , Erich Eichstetter , José Francisco Peláez
The establishment of innovation ecosystems has become an increasingly prevalent strategy for fostering territorial, economic and social development. However, the existing literature provides limited insights into the strategic conditions that enable the emergence of such ecosystems. This paper addresses this gap by identifying the critical elements and mechanisms underpinning their creation. Specifically, it examines five leading food and gastronomy-focused innovation ecosystems in high-cost economies – Japan, Singapore, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Israel –.
Using a case study approach, the research draws on 53 in-depth interviews with key stakeholders engaged in each ecosystem. The paper offers several theoretical contributions. First, it assesses the extent to which the mechanisms of ecosystem emergence proposed in the literature align with empirical reality, revealing variations in their intensity and manifestation. Second, it identifies nine dimensions as the foundational determinants necessary for ecosystem formation. Third, it underscores the need for a governance shift from centralised orchestration to a more adaptive and dynamic network choreography. Finally, it advances the theoretical debate on ecosystem life cycles by demonstrating that the boundaries between phases of emergence and maturity are more blurred in practice than assumed in existing models, thereby calling for further refinement of ecosystem development theories.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-16DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103367
Yunkyoung Kim, Hyun Ju Jung
This study examines ventures' path dependence and path breaking in the context of serial entrepreneurship. While prior entrepreneurial experience is known to cause ventures’ path dependence, little is known about how different types of experience, especially financial versus technological, shape it. Specifically, we investigate how the financial and technological success of serial entrepreneurs' prior ventures influences their subsequent ventures' path-breaking behavior singly and jointly. We find that while the financial success of prior ventures facilitates subsequent ventures' path-dependent propensity, technological success leads subsequent ventures to break the path by entering new technology domains different from those of prior ventures. The relationship between prior ventures' financial success and subsequent ventures' path breaking is contingent on prior ventures' technological success. Under the condition of prior ventures' technological success, the negative effect of financial success on path breaking weakens. We corroborate our hypotheses using Crunchbase for entrepreneur and venture data worldwide from 1967 to 2018 and patent data from USPTO. Our findings have important implications for the source of ventures' path-breaking behaviors, highlighting the role of the entrepreneurs' technological success in prior ventures in disentangling their subsequent ventures from path dependence.
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