Pub Date : 2024-04-22DOI: 10.1108/ejim-09-2023-0788
Fei Zhou, Songling Xu
PurposeThis study aims to explore how the application of digital technology and information technology can help firms improve their innovation performance and examines the mediating mechanisms of supply chain agility and supply chain integration.Design/methodology/approachThis study conducted a questionnaire survey of 320 business managers in an automotive cluster in China and analyzed the collected data using structural equations.FindingsDigital technology applications (DTA) have a positive impact on innovation performance, while supply chain agility and integration mediate this impact. In addition, information technology applications (ITA) also has a positive impact on innovation performance, while supply chain agility and integration mediate between the two. Supply chain agility (SCA) and supply chain integration (SCI) significantly enhance the positive impact of technology adoption on firms' innovation performance.Originality/valueThis study confirms the impact of digital technology and information technology applications on innovation performance and explores the mediating role played by supply chain agility and integration.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-22DOI: 10.1108/ejim-06-2022-0303
Tian-Tian Shang, Guang-Mao Dong, Min Tian
PurposeBased on the resource bricolage theory, we investigate the impact of proactive market orientation and responsive market orientation on firms’ disruptive green innovation. We also examine the impact of resource bricolage on disruptive green innovation and the mediating role of resource bricolage.Design/methodology/approachQuantitative data were collected from 232 firms in China. Structural equation modelling was used to test hypotheses.FindingsThe result show that proactive market orientation had positive effect on firm’s disruptive green innovation, whereas responsive market orientation had negative effect on firm’s disruptive green innovation. In addition, resource bricolage positively promotes firm’s disruptive green innovation. Resource bricolage played a mediating role between proactive market orientation and disruptive green innovation. Resource bricolage had a suppressing effect between responsive market orientation and disruptive green innovation.Originality/valueThis study makes up for the deficiency of the existing research on the relationship between market orientation and enterprise disruptive green innovation, improves the guidance mechanism of disruptive green innovation.
{"title":"How does market orientation affect disruptive green innovation? The mediating role of resource bricolage","authors":"Tian-Tian Shang, Guang-Mao Dong, Min Tian","doi":"10.1108/ejim-06-2022-0303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/ejim-06-2022-0303","url":null,"abstract":"PurposeBased on the resource bricolage theory, we investigate the impact of proactive market orientation and responsive market orientation on firms’ disruptive green innovation. We also examine the impact of resource bricolage on disruptive green innovation and the mediating role of resource bricolage.Design/methodology/approachQuantitative data were collected from 232 firms in China. Structural equation modelling was used to test hypotheses.FindingsThe result show that proactive market orientation had positive effect on firm’s disruptive green innovation, whereas responsive market orientation had negative effect on firm’s disruptive green innovation. In addition, resource bricolage positively promotes firm’s disruptive green innovation. Resource bricolage played a mediating role between proactive market orientation and disruptive green innovation. Resource bricolage had a suppressing effect between responsive market orientation and disruptive green innovation.Originality/valueThis study makes up for the deficiency of the existing research on the relationship between market orientation and enterprise disruptive green innovation, improves the guidance mechanism of disruptive green innovation.","PeriodicalId":504522,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Innovation Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140214667","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 : 2024-02-29DOI: 10.1108/ejim-05-2023-0409
Jingxin Lv, Shiquan Wang
PurposeThis study aims to focus on the resource-based faultline of a top management team (TMT) and intends to investigate the impact of TMT resource-based faultline on corporate green innovation, by indicating the environmental management as a mediator and slack resources as a moderator to understand the relationship.Design/methodology/approachBased on the empirical data of Chinese listed manufacturing companies from 2008 to 2020, this study assesses the hypotheses using an OLS model with fixed effects of time and industry.FindingsThe results indicate that TMT resource-based faultline is significantly negatively correlated with corporate green innovation. The conclusion remains valid after endogeneity tests and robustness checks. Mechanism test shows that environmental management plays a mediating role in the association between TMT resource-based faultline and corporate green innovation. Moreover, slack resources diminish the negative association between TMT resource-based faultline and corporate green innovation.Originality/valueThe study not only expands the theoretical understanding of the deeper motivation of TMT faultline on corporate green innovation, but also provides a practical reference for optimizing the human resource allocation of the TMT and accelerating green transformation development.
{"title":"Top management team resource-based faultline and corporate green innovation: empirical evidence from listed Chinese manufacturing companies","authors":"Jingxin Lv, Shiquan Wang","doi":"10.1108/ejim-05-2023-0409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/ejim-05-2023-0409","url":null,"abstract":"PurposeThis study aims to focus on the resource-based faultline of a top management team (TMT) and intends to investigate the impact of TMT resource-based faultline on corporate green innovation, by indicating the environmental management as a mediator and slack resources as a moderator to understand the relationship.Design/methodology/approachBased on the empirical data of Chinese listed manufacturing companies from 2008 to 2020, this study assesses the hypotheses using an OLS model with fixed effects of time and industry.FindingsThe results indicate that TMT resource-based faultline is significantly negatively correlated with corporate green innovation. The conclusion remains valid after endogeneity tests and robustness checks. Mechanism test shows that environmental management plays a mediating role in the association between TMT resource-based faultline and corporate green innovation. Moreover, slack resources diminish the negative association between TMT resource-based faultline and corporate green innovation.Originality/valueThe study not only expands the theoretical understanding of the deeper motivation of TMT faultline on corporate green innovation, but also provides a practical reference for optimizing the human resource allocation of the TMT and accelerating green transformation development.","PeriodicalId":504522,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Innovation Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140409475","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 : 2024-02-22DOI: 10.1108/ejim-11-2023-1004
Wenhao Zhou, Hailin Li
PurposeThis study aims to propose a combined effect framework to explore the relationship between research and development (R&D) team networks, knowledge diversity and breakthrough technological innovation. In contrast to conventional linear net effects, the article explores three possible types of team configuration within enterprises and their breakthrough innovation-driving mechanisms based on machine learning methods.Design/methodology/approachBased on the patent application data of 2,337 Chinese companies in the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry to construct the R&D team network, the study uses the K-Means method to explore the configuration types of R&D teams with the principle of greatest intergroup differences. Further, a decision tree model (DT) is utilized to excavate the conditional combined relationships between diverse team network configuration factors, knowledge diversity and breakthrough innovation. The network driving mechanism of corporate breakthrough innovation is analyzed from the perspective of team configurations.FindingsIt has been discerned that in the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry, there exist three main types of enterprise R&D team configurations: tight collaboration, knowledge expansion and scale orientation, which reflect the three resource investment preferences of enterprises in technological innovation, network relationships, knowledge resources and human capital. The results highlight both the crowding-out effects and complementary effects between knowledge diversity and team network characteristics in tight collaborative teams. Low knowledge diversity and high team structure holes (SHs) are found to be the optimal team configuration conditions for breakthrough innovation in knowledge-expanding and scale-oriented teams.Originality/valuePrevious studies have mainly focused on the relationship between the external collaboration network and corporate innovation. Moreover, traditional regression methods mainly describe the linear net effects between variables, neglecting that technological breakthroughs are a comprehensive concept that requires the combined action of multiple factors. To address the gap, this article proposes a combination effect framework between R&D teams and enterprise breakthrough innovation, further improving social network theory and expanding the applicability of data mining methods in the field of innovation management.
{"title":"R&D team network configurations, knowledge diversity and breakthrough innovation: a combined effect framework","authors":"Wenhao Zhou, Hailin Li","doi":"10.1108/ejim-11-2023-1004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/ejim-11-2023-1004","url":null,"abstract":"PurposeThis study aims to propose a combined effect framework to explore the relationship between research and development (R&D) team networks, knowledge diversity and breakthrough technological innovation. In contrast to conventional linear net effects, the article explores three possible types of team configuration within enterprises and their breakthrough innovation-driving mechanisms based on machine learning methods.Design/methodology/approachBased on the patent application data of 2,337 Chinese companies in the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry to construct the R&D team network, the study uses the K-Means method to explore the configuration types of R&D teams with the principle of greatest intergroup differences. Further, a decision tree model (DT) is utilized to excavate the conditional combined relationships between diverse team network configuration factors, knowledge diversity and breakthrough innovation. The network driving mechanism of corporate breakthrough innovation is analyzed from the perspective of team configurations.FindingsIt has been discerned that in the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry, there exist three main types of enterprise R&D team configurations: tight collaboration, knowledge expansion and scale orientation, which reflect the three resource investment preferences of enterprises in technological innovation, network relationships, knowledge resources and human capital. The results highlight both the crowding-out effects and complementary effects between knowledge diversity and team network characteristics in tight collaborative teams. Low knowledge diversity and high team structure holes (SHs) are found to be the optimal team configuration conditions for breakthrough innovation in knowledge-expanding and scale-oriented teams.Originality/valuePrevious studies have mainly focused on the relationship between the external collaboration network and corporate innovation. Moreover, traditional regression methods mainly describe the linear net effects between variables, neglecting that technological breakthroughs are a comprehensive concept that requires the combined action of multiple factors. To address the gap, this article proposes a combination effect framework between R&D teams and enterprise breakthrough innovation, further improving social network theory and expanding the applicability of data mining methods in the field of innovation management.","PeriodicalId":504522,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Innovation Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140439129","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 : 2024-02-12DOI: 10.1108/ejim-07-2023-0610
Lei Ma, Ben Zhang, Kaitong Liang, Yang Cheng, Chaonan Yi
PurposeThe embedding of digital technology and the fuzzy organizational boundary have changed the operation of platform innovation ecosystem (PIE). Specifically, as an important energy of PIE, the internal logic of knowledge flow needs to be reconsidered in the context of digital age, which will be helpful to select the cultivation and governance strategy of PIE.Design/methodology/approachA dual case-analysis is applied to open the “black box” of knowledge flow in the PIE from the perspective of enabled by digital technology, by taking the intellectual property (IP) operation platform as cases.FindingsThe research findings are as follow: (1) The knowledge flow mechanism of PIE is mainly demonstrated through the processes of knowledge acquisition, knowledge integration and knowledge spillover. During this process, connectivity empowerment and scenario empowerment realize the digital empowerment of the platform. (2) Connectivity empowerment provides a channel of knowledge acquisition for the digital connection between participants in PIE. In the process of knowledge integration, scenario empowerment improves the opportunities for accurate matching and collaborative innovation between knowledge supplier and demander, and enhance the value of knowledge. The dual effect of connectivity empowerment and scenario empowerment has accelerated the knowledge spillover in PIE. Particularly, connectivity empowerment expands the range of knowledge spillover, and scenario empowerment affects the generativity of the platform, resulting in the enhancement of platform’s capability to embed and expand its value network. (3) Participants have been benefitted from the PIE enabled by digital technology through three key modules (knowledge acquisition, knowledge integration and knowledge spillover), as the result of knowledge flow.Originality/valueThis study focuses on the knowledge flow mechanism of PIE enabled by digital technology, which enriches the PIE theory, and has enlightenments for the cultivation of digital platform ecosystem.
目的 数字技术的嵌入和组织边界的模糊改变了平台创新生态系统（PIE）的运行。设计/方法/途径以知识产权（IP）运营平台为例，运用双重案例分析法，从数字技术赋能的视角打开平台创新生态系统知识流动的 "黑箱"：(1）PIE 的知识流动机制主要表现为知识获取、知识整合和知识溢出过程。在这一过程中，连接赋能和场景赋能实现了平台的数字化赋能。(2）连接赋能为 PIE 参与者之间的数字化连接提供了知识获取渠道。在知识整合过程中，场景赋能提高了知识供需双方精准匹配和协同创新的机会，提升了知识的价值。连接赋能和场景赋能的双重效应加速了 PIE 中的知识溢出。其中，连接赋能扩大了知识溢出的范围，场景赋能影响了平台的生成性，从而增强了平台嵌入和扩展其价值网络的能力。(3）数字技术赋能的PIE通过三个关键模块（知识获取、知识整合和知识溢出）使参与者受益，这是知识流动的结果。 原创性/价值 本研究关注数字技术赋能的PIE的知识流动机制，丰富了PIE理论，对数字平台生态系统的培育具有启示意义。
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Pub Date : 2024-02-12DOI: 10.1108/ejim-07-2023-0610
Lei Ma, Ben Zhang, Kaitong Liang, Yang Cheng, Chaonan Yi
PurposeThe embedding of digital technology and the fuzzy organizational boundary have changed the operation of platform innovation ecosystem (PIE). Specifically, as an important energy of PIE, the internal logic of knowledge flow needs to be reconsidered in the context of digital age, which will be helpful to select the cultivation and governance strategy of PIE.Design/methodology/approachA dual case-analysis is applied to open the “black box” of knowledge flow in the PIE from the perspective of enabled by digital technology, by taking the intellectual property (IP) operation platform as cases.FindingsThe research findings are as follow: (1) The knowledge flow mechanism of PIE is mainly demonstrated through the processes of knowledge acquisition, knowledge integration and knowledge spillover. During this process, connectivity empowerment and scenario empowerment realize the digital empowerment of the platform. (2) Connectivity empowerment provides a channel of knowledge acquisition for the digital connection between participants in PIE. In the process of knowledge integration, scenario empowerment improves the opportunities for accurate matching and collaborative innovation between knowledge supplier and demander, and enhance the value of knowledge. The dual effect of connectivity empowerment and scenario empowerment has accelerated the knowledge spillover in PIE. Particularly, connectivity empowerment expands the range of knowledge spillover, and scenario empowerment affects the generativity of the platform, resulting in the enhancement of platform’s capability to embed and expand its value network. (3) Participants have been benefitted from the PIE enabled by digital technology through three key modules (knowledge acquisition, knowledge integration and knowledge spillover), as the result of knowledge flow.Originality/valueThis study focuses on the knowledge flow mechanism of PIE enabled by digital technology, which enriches the PIE theory, and has enlightenments for the cultivation of digital platform ecosystem.
目的 数字技术的嵌入和组织边界的模糊改变了平台创新生态系统（PIE）的运行。设计/方法/途径以知识产权（IP）运营平台为例，运用双重案例分析法，从数字技术赋能的视角打开平台创新生态系统知识流动的 "黑箱"：(1）PIE 的知识流动机制主要表现为知识获取、知识整合和知识溢出过程。在这一过程中，连接赋能和场景赋能实现了平台的数字化赋能。(2）连接赋能为 PIE 参与者之间的数字化连接提供了知识获取渠道。在知识整合过程中，场景赋能提高了知识供需双方精准匹配和协同创新的机会，提升了知识的价值。连接赋能和场景赋能的双重效应加速了 PIE 中的知识溢出。其中，连接赋能扩大了知识溢出的范围，场景赋能影响了平台的生成性，从而增强了平台嵌入和扩展其价值网络的能力。(3）数字技术赋能的PIE通过三个关键模块（知识获取、知识整合和知识溢出）使参与者受益，这是知识流动的结果。 原创性/价值 本研究关注数字技术赋能的PIE的知识流动机制，丰富了PIE理论，对数字平台生态系统的培育具有启示意义。
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Pub Date : 2024-02-09DOI: 10.1108/ejim-06-2023-0483
Armando Calabrese, Antonio D'Uffizi, Nathan Levialdi Ghiron, Luca Berloco, E. Pourabbas, Nathan Proudlove
PurposeThe primary objective of this paper is to show a systematic and methodological approach for the digitalization of critical clinical pathways (CPs) within the healthcare domain.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology entails the integration of service design (SD) and action research (AR) methodologies, characterized by iterative phases that systematically alternate between action and reflective processes, fostering cycles of change and learning. Within this framework, stakeholders are engaged through semi-structured interviews, while the existing and envisioned processes are delineated and represented using BPMN 2.0. These methodological steps emphasize the development of an autonomous, patient-centric web application alongside the implementation of an adaptable and patient-oriented scheduling system. Also, business processes simulation is employed to measure key performance indicators of processes and test for potential improvements. This method is implemented in the context of the CP addressing transient loss of consciousness (TLOC), within a publicly funded hospital setting.FindingsThe methodology integrating SD and AR enables the detection of pivotal bottlenecks within diagnostic CPs and proposes optimal corrective measures to ensure uninterrupted patient care, all the while advancing the digitalization of diagnostic CP management. This study contributes to theoretical discussions by emphasizing the criticality of process optimization, the transformative potential of digitalization in healthcare and the paramount importance of user-centric design principles, and offers valuable insights into healthcare management implications.Originality/valueThe study’s relevance lies in its ability to enhance healthcare practices without necessitating disruptive and resource-intensive process overhauls. This pragmatic approach aligns with the imperative for healthcare organizations to improve their operations efficiently and cost-effectively, making the study’s findings relevant.
目的本文的主要目的是展示医疗保健领域关键临床路径（CP）数字化的系统化方法。在此框架内，利益相关者通过半结构化访谈参与进来，同时使用 BPMN 2.0 划分和表示现有和设想的流程。这些方法步骤强调开发一个自主的、以病人为中心的网络应用程序，同时实施一个适应性强的、以病人为导向的排班系统。此外，还采用业务流程模拟来衡量流程的关键绩效指标，并测试潜在的改进措施。研究结果该方法将 SD 和 AR 相结合，能够发现诊断中心内的关键瓶颈，并提出最佳纠正措施，以确保不间断的患者护理，同时推进诊断中心管理的数字化。本研究通过强调流程优化的关键性、医疗保健数字化的变革潜力以及以用户为中心的设计原则的极端重要性，为理论讨论做出了贡献，并为医疗保健管理的意义提供了宝贵的见解。这种务实的方法符合医疗机构以高效、经济的方式改善运营的迫切需要，因此研究结果具有现实意义。
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Pub Date : 2024-02-09DOI: 10.1108/ejim-06-2023-0483
Armando Calabrese, Antonio D'Uffizi, Nathan Levialdi Ghiron, Luca Berloco, E. Pourabbas, Nathan Proudlove
PurposeThe primary objective of this paper is to show a systematic and methodological approach for the digitalization of critical clinical pathways (CPs) within the healthcare domain.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology entails the integration of service design (SD) and action research (AR) methodologies, characterized by iterative phases that systematically alternate between action and reflective processes, fostering cycles of change and learning. Within this framework, stakeholders are engaged through semi-structured interviews, while the existing and envisioned processes are delineated and represented using BPMN 2.0. These methodological steps emphasize the development of an autonomous, patient-centric web application alongside the implementation of an adaptable and patient-oriented scheduling system. Also, business processes simulation is employed to measure key performance indicators of processes and test for potential improvements. This method is implemented in the context of the CP addressing transient loss of consciousness (TLOC), within a publicly funded hospital setting.FindingsThe methodology integrating SD and AR enables the detection of pivotal bottlenecks within diagnostic CPs and proposes optimal corrective measures to ensure uninterrupted patient care, all the while advancing the digitalization of diagnostic CP management. This study contributes to theoretical discussions by emphasizing the criticality of process optimization, the transformative potential of digitalization in healthcare and the paramount importance of user-centric design principles, and offers valuable insights into healthcare management implications.Originality/valueThe study’s relevance lies in its ability to enhance healthcare practices without necessitating disruptive and resource-intensive process overhauls. This pragmatic approach aligns with the imperative for healthcare organizations to improve their operations efficiently and cost-effectively, making the study’s findings relevant.
目的本文的主要目的是展示医疗保健领域关键临床路径（CP）数字化的系统化方法。在此框架内，利益相关者通过半结构化访谈参与进来，同时使用 BPMN 2.0 划分和表示现有和设想的流程。这些方法步骤强调开发一个自主的、以病人为中心的网络应用程序，同时实施一个适应性强的、以病人为导向的排班系统。此外，还采用业务流程模拟来衡量流程的关键绩效指标，并测试潜在的改进措施。研究结果该方法将 SD 和 AR 相结合，能够发现诊断中心内的关键瓶颈，并提出最佳纠正措施，以确保不间断的患者护理，同时推进诊断中心管理的数字化。本研究通过强调流程优化的关键性、医疗保健数字化的变革潜力以及以用户为中心的设计原则的极端重要性，为理论讨论做出了贡献，并为医疗保健管理的意义提供了宝贵的见解。这种务实的方法符合医疗机构以高效、经济的方式改善运营的迫切需要，因此研究结果具有现实意义。
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Pub Date : 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1108/ejim-07-2023-0600
Junghee Han
PurposeQuite often than not, a new industry can be created, thanks to the countless entrepreneurs and innovative activities across the globe. Smart city (SC) is one such industry and a living lab using the key roles of the digital platform that enable a seamless flow of information and knowledge for innovation within the SC. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how SC can be a new regional industry engine through an “open collective innovation system” as its new concept. In particular, SC provides efficient transaction costs and knowledge flows. Eventually, SC can be an innovation hub for entrepreneurship through openness.Design/methodology/approachTo frame the research goals, the authors used qualitative research methodologies based on grounded theory. In particular, the author used inductive reasoning to generate arguments and conclusions about the future of an SC as a new growth engine in the era of the fourth industrial revolution. Numerous documents and prior literature were used for the preliminary conceptualization of an SC. Interview data were then coded for reasoning in an open collective innovation system based on “openness”.FindingsSC maximizes efficiency in practicing innovation. In the perspective of innovation costs, SC can minimize transaction costs, specifically the information processing costs, through data openness. In this context, transaction costs can be considered an economic equivalent of friction in a physical system. So, as the friction is low, some movements of an object on the surface are likely to be easy. SC is optimized for innovation activities through an “open collective innovation system”. In terms of innovation networks, an SC results in an innovation efficiency derived from both the network and the spatial agglomerations in physical and cyberspace. The efficiency-based SC itself overlaps knowledge creation, dissemination and absorption, providing an open innovation (OI) ecosystem.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper remarkably extends that SC can be an “open collective innovation system model” and a new conceptualization. Eventually, SC will play a crucial role in developing regional industries as a new growth engine. To operate as a new growth engine fully-fledged, the SC is needed to accumulate innovative assets such as the critical mass of residents, numerous firms, etc. However, this study has some limitations. First, difficulties in any analytic approach to SC resulted from their many interdependent facets, such as social, economic, infrastructural and spatial complex systems, which exist in similar but changing forms over a huge range of scales. Also, this research is at a quite an early stage. Thus, its theoretical stability is weak. So, this paper used the qualitative methodology with a grounded theory. Another limitation is in the research methodology. The limitation of using grounded theory adapted by this work is that the results of this study may not be generalizable beyond the context o
首先，要使自然科学成为区域或自然层面的增长引擎，强有力的政策实施至关重要，因为自然科学被广泛视为创业手段和创新广场（Kraus 等人，2015 年）。为促进创业，在大学内设立了用于制作原型的创客空间，以支持创业过程。在大学建立创客空间的原因是扩大创业者与专家之间的网络，通过价值网络实现创新。本研究提出的 "数据基本收入计划 "是可以借鉴的政策工具之一，该计划旨在促进数据的使用，为商业活动提供内容和信息。此外，作为知识流动过程中介的自然科学治理者应启动自然科学的软配置。 本研究在开放式创新方面做出了两项理论贡献：（1）探索了动态模型原型；（2）阐明并强调了如何利用数字技术（即在人工智能、物联网和大数据背景下）创建高效的集体知识流动。首先，本研究的结果揭示了 OI 动态模型。它揭示了新的子集群创建的重要原型，即通过在参与的价值网络中进行分类来支撑整体创新过程的系统（Aguilar-Gallegos 等人，2015 年）。在创新研究中，学者们尤其关注集群的演化模式。在创新过程中，本研究提出的 "开放式创新动态模型 "说明了价值网络中通过利用 SC 的优势而发生的子集群。最终，子集群的演变或发展会带来一个新的系统，即开放式创新系统。其次，这项研究的结果有助于人们理解数字技术在促进知识流动方面的作用。在 SC 中使用和部署数字技术可能会对参与者的创新活动产生巨大的积极影响。此外，数字经济（即所谓的平台业务）的崛起可能取决于先进技术和开放式创新。因此，研究结果可以通过将 SC 与创新研究并列，进一步推动创新研究（Mehra et al.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1108/ejim-07-2023-0600
Junghee Han
PurposeQuite often than not, a new industry can be created, thanks to the countless entrepreneurs and innovative activities across the globe. Smart city (SC) is one such industry and a living lab using the key roles of the digital platform that enable a seamless flow of information and knowledge for innovation within the SC. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how SC can be a new regional industry engine through an “open collective innovation system” as its new concept. In particular, SC provides efficient transaction costs and knowledge flows. Eventually, SC can be an innovation hub for entrepreneurship through openness.Design/methodology/approachTo frame the research goals, the authors used qualitative research methodologies based on grounded theory. In particular, the author used inductive reasoning to generate arguments and conclusions about the future of an SC as a new growth engine in the era of the fourth industrial revolution. Numerous documents and prior literature were used for the preliminary conceptualization of an SC. Interview data were then coded for reasoning in an open collective innovation system based on “openness”.FindingsSC maximizes efficiency in practicing innovation. In the perspective of innovation costs, SC can minimize transaction costs, specifically the information processing costs, through data openness. In this context, transaction costs can be considered an economic equivalent of friction in a physical system. So, as the friction is low, some movements of an object on the surface are likely to be easy. SC is optimized for innovation activities through an “open collective innovation system”. In terms of innovation networks, an SC results in an innovation efficiency derived from both the network and the spatial agglomerations in physical and cyberspace. The efficiency-based SC itself overlaps knowledge creation, dissemination and absorption, providing an open innovation (OI) ecosystem.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper remarkably extends that SC can be an “open collective innovation system model” and a new conceptualization. Eventually, SC will play a crucial role in developing regional industries as a new growth engine. To operate as a new growth engine fully-fledged, the SC is needed to accumulate innovative assets such as the critical mass of residents, numerous firms, etc. However, this study has some limitations. First, difficulties in any analytic approach to SC resulted from their many interdependent facets, such as social, economic, infrastructural and spatial complex systems, which exist in similar but changing forms over a huge range of scales. Also, this research is at a quite an early stage. Thus, its theoretical stability is weak. So, this paper used the qualitative methodology with a grounded theory. Another limitation is in the research methodology. The limitation of using grounded theory adapted by this work is that the results of this study may not be generalizable beyond the context o
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