Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub 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 : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-11-28DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103434
Wenlin Zhang, Jin Ma
Design thinking (DT) is widely recognized as effective in fostering technology-based innovation. However, its implementation in organizations often encounters cultural dissonance, as DT culture fundamentally conflicts with organizations' prevailing cultural norms. This study examines how organizational members navigate this dissonance to implement DT effectively to foster innovation. We conducted a comparative case study of two small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that started DT implementation under similar conditions but achieved contrasting outcomes. Using qualitative analysis of real-time and retrospective data from ethnographic fieldwork, we adopt a cultural toolkit lens to develop a culturally informed model of DT implementation effectiveness. Our findings reveal that DT implementation allows for cultural accumulation within an organization—a common initial condition where tensions between Design Culture and Industrial Culture become intensified, leading to cultural dissonance. Effective DT implementation involves cultural alternation, where the organization flexibly shifts between distinct cultural norms as situations evolve and achieves cultural symbiosis. In contrast, ineffective DT implementation results in cultural fixation, where rigid adherence to distinct cultures further creates cultural antagonism. This study advances innovation management and technological innovation scholarship by revealing day-to-day practices that leverage DT for innovation, offering a culturally informed model for effective DT implementation, and reframing DT's role in organizational change.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-10-04DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103372
M. Bergamini , L. Sleuwaegen , B. Van Looy
Since the introduction of the notion ‘creative class’, artists have been portrayed as contributing to the innovation dynamics of cities and regions. While insights from qualitative studies suggest positive externalities from the arts to the knowledge economy, quantitative analyses so far offer only limited or no support for a systematic positive contribution to the (overall) innovative performance of regions. In this paper, we focus simultaneously on innovations of a technical nature (measured by patents) and of an aesthetic nature (measured by design rights). Relying on data of a large set of European regions (NUTS 2), we examine their joint impact on regional economic growth, and we analyze how different types of human capital – besides scientists and engineers, also artists – are associated with regional innovative performance. Our findings reveal that both types of innovation are relevant for explaining differences in regional growth. In addition, the analysis signals a distinctive contribution both from artists and from scientists and engineers, albeit in different activity realms. While scientists and engineers' contribution towards regional innovation is very outspoken but confined to technological innovation, the presence of artists in the region is associated with technological and, more pronounced, with aesthetic innovation. Overall, our findings suggest the relevance of adopting a more encompassing view on innovation and creativity when assessing regional growth dynamics.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-11-24DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103435
Carl Åberg , Giovanna Campopiano
Stewardship can be a competitive resource that enhances collectivistic orientations and alignment within family firms. However, it is important to understand whether stewardship is beneficial in creating a shared vision between digital technology and business strategies. Although the existing literature offers limited insights into these relationships, advancing such knowledge is essential, as family firms encounter considerable challenges in implementing digital transformation, which in turn significantly affects their performance. Therefore, this study sheds light on how stewardship can work as a driver of digital business alignment, an information processing capacity aimed at the alignment of digital technology and business strategy, to enhance family firm performance, while also exploring the contingency role of family ownership. Theoretical hypotheses are tested using global survey data encompassing a sample of 2266 family firms from 70 countries. The main findings suggest a positive partial mediation, implying that stewardship family-oriented goals positively impact digital business alignment, leading to positive performance outcomes. Furthermore, family ownership weakens the positive relationship between stewardship family-oriented goals and digital business alignment. These findings have important implications for stewardship, information processing, and family firm research, providing valuable insights into the role of aligning digital and strategic interests, and managing family ownership in environments increasingly impacted by digital technologies.
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International scientific collaboration among BRICS countries has intensified in recent years, particularly in the field of science, technology, and innovation (STI). Yet, the underlying cultural and institutional dynamics shaping these partnerships remain underexplored, features that are key to understanding collaborative practices among such a heterogeneous group of countries. We address this gap by investigating how organizational cultural traits relate to key barriers to collaboration in cross-national academic environments. We draw our empirical insights from a novel, primary dataset consisting of 403 survey responses from researchers engaged in BRICS-based co-authorships. The questionnaire, structured on a five-point Likert scale, comprised items on organizational cultural elements (e.g., mutual trust, performance measurement schemes, information sharing, and leadership dynamics) and barriers to collaboration (e.g., administrative mismatches, divergent priorities for publication or patenting, funding limitations, cultural and language differences, and partner reliability). Grey Incidence Analysis (GIA) is employed to evaluate the strength of associations between cultural traits and collaboration barriers. Findings highlight those institutional misalignments, particularly those concerning performance measurement systems and divergent publication priorities are more critical in constraining cooperation than interpersonal or intercultural differences. While trust and communication practices matter, structural incompatibilities related to administrative frameworks and governance policies emerged as the most impactful elements shaping collaborative dynamics. By revealing how governance alignment and institutional harmonization can strengthen innovation performance through enhanced efficiency of joint R&D alliances, accelerated co-patenting and technology licensing, and more effective knowledge-transfer processes, these findings provide actionable insights for both researchers and policymakers. In practical terms, they support the development of STI policy actions that promote more inclusive, resilient, and culturally attuned scientific cooperation within and beyond the BRICS bloc.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub 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 : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-10-07DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103382
Guilherme Sales Smania , Néstor Fabián Ayala , Wim Coreynen , Leonardo Augusto de Vasconcelos Gomes , Glauco H.S. Mendes
Manufacturers are increasingly adopting B2B platforms to support their servitization initiatives. However, the transition to a platform-based servitization introduces distinct risks for ecosystem actors, particularly in the context of service provisioning. This study examines these risks and explores corresponding mitigation strategies through a socio-technical systems theoretical lens. To achieve this, we conducted case studies of two B2B platform ecosystems within Brazil's agricultural machinery industry. Data were collected from 27 in-depth interviews with various ecosystem actors, including original equipment manufacturers, technology providers, service intermediaries, and customers. The findings reveal three main categories of risk in service provisioning: platform data integration risks (such as information overload and cross-platform interoperability), platform interaction risks (such as external dependency, actor engagement, and strategic imitation), and platform output risks (such as service inconsistencies). The study also proposes both ex-ante and ex-post strategies to manage these risks. These insights offer valuable theoretical and managerial contributions to help servitization scholars and practitioners diagnose and mitigate the risks that may arise when adopting B2B platforms for service provisioning.
{"title":"Risk management in platform-based servitization: A socio-technical study of service provisioning in B2B platforms","authors":"Guilherme Sales Smania , Néstor Fabián Ayala , Wim Coreynen , Leonardo Augusto de Vasconcelos Gomes , Glauco H.S. Mendes","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103382","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103382","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Manufacturers are increasingly adopting B2B platforms to support their servitization initiatives. However, the transition to a platform-based servitization introduces distinct risks for ecosystem actors, particularly in the context of service provisioning. This study examines these risks and explores corresponding mitigation strategies through a socio-technical systems theoretical lens. To achieve this, we conducted case studies of two B2B platform ecosystems within Brazil's agricultural machinery industry. Data were collected from 27 in-depth interviews with various ecosystem actors, including original equipment manufacturers, technology providers, service intermediaries, and customers. The findings reveal three main categories of risk in service provisioning: platform data integration risks (such as information overload and cross-platform interoperability), platform interaction risks (such as external dependency, actor engagement, and strategic imitation), and platform output risks (such as service inconsistencies). The study also proposes both <em>ex-ante</em> and <em>ex-post</em> strategies to manage these risks. These insights offer valuable theoretical and managerial contributions to help servitization scholars and practitioners diagnose and mitigate the risks that may arise when adopting B2B platforms for service provisioning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"150 ","pages":"Article 103382"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145270112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103433
Zhiyuan Zhang , Jialin Zhao , Jean-Michel Sahut , Yang Song , Khaled Guesmi
Managing urban energy use is a critical challenge for cities striving to achieve green and sustainable development, and also a vital focal point for propelling the synergistic growth between urban economic and environmental systems. Leveraging panel data from 281 prefecture-level cities in China spanning 2008 to 2021, this study adopts a two-way fixed effects (TWFE) model to assess the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on urban energy consumption (UEC) optimisation. The results reveal that AI exerts a significant influence on the optimisation of UEC, and this impact stays robust following a series of robustness tests. Heterogeneity analysis, which accounts for geographical location and specific urban attributes, reveals substantial differences in the potential and actual effects of AI in optimising energy consumption across different cities. For cities in China's northeast and central regions, non-resource-based cities and low-carbon pilot cities, AI implementation has produced impressive results in the optimisation of energy consumption. However, for cities in eastern and western China, as well as resource-based cities and non-low-carbon pilot cities, AI's role in energy consumption optimisation has not been fully validated. The mediating effect test confirms that AI optimises UEC by enhancing green total factor energy efficiency. The findings have policy implications for the rational application and widespread deployment of AI in cities. The results serve as a basis for evidence-backed choices when developing precise energy policies, supporting the ongoing refinement of UEC and advancing the objective of sustainable urban development.
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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 : 2026-02-01Epub 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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