Pub Date : 2012-06-18DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2012.047376
Jan Finzen, Maximilien Kintz, Stefan Kaufmann
Today, lots of online communities co–exist where users suggest and discuss ideas and problems. However, the diversity of such idea networks and the high launch rate of new platforms make it hard to keep track of the current idea community landscape. This article presents an approach to integrate arbitrary online ideation platforms that allow users to publicly utter and discuss new ideas or provide solutions to previously announced problems. We introduce our prototypical implementation of the approach that provides a single point of access for innovation managers, problem solvers and solution seekers.
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Pub Date : 2012-06-18DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2012.047374
Sabine Brunswicker, Ulrich Hutschek, Lena Wagner
The burgeoning discussion in open and collaborative innovation has revitalised fi rms' interest in purposive infl ows and outfl ows of knowledge. This questions our understanding of 'explorative innovation' and the role of technologies in explorative innovation search. This paper aims to enhance our conceptual understanding of 'explorative' innovation strategies. On the basis of a systematic literature review, we synthesise the existing literature on explorative innovation. We identify six groups of conceptualisations that refl ect the diverse perspective towards explorative innovation. These groups differ in terms of the level of analysis, the dominating theoretical perspectives, the underlying dimensions describing how fi rms explore and search, and the relevance of external and internal conditioning factors. Overall, we found that the role of technology in explorative search varies, and has slightly changed over time. We propose a multidimensional perspective towards exploration. We highlight that technologies may serve a range of functions in the fi rm's business model.
{"title":"'Exploration' in the open innovation front–end: the role of technologies","authors":"Sabine Brunswicker, Ulrich Hutschek, Lena Wagner","doi":"10.1504/IJTIP.2012.047374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTIP.2012.047374","url":null,"abstract":"The burgeoning discussion in open and collaborative innovation has revitalised fi rms' interest in purposive infl ows and outfl ows of knowledge. This questions our understanding of 'explorative innovation' and the role of technologies in explorative innovation search. This paper aims to enhance our conceptual understanding of 'explorative' innovation strategies. On the basis of a systematic literature review, we synthesise the existing literature on explorative innovation. We identify six groups of conceptualisations that refl ect the diverse perspective towards explorative innovation. These groups differ in terms of the level of analysis, the dominating theoretical perspectives, the underlying dimensions describing how fi rms explore and search, and the relevance of external and internal conditioning factors. Overall, we found that the role of technology in explorative search varies, and has slightly changed over time. We propose a multidimensional perspective towards exploration. We highlight that technologies may serve a range of functions in the fi rm's business model.","PeriodicalId":52540,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning","volume":"2 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89770436","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 : 2012-06-18DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2012.047377
S. Ford, MichÁ le J. Routley, R. Phaal, D. Probert
This paper describes and reflects on the development and application of the Expert Scan, a semi–structured visual mapping process, which can be used to record historical interview–based accounts of industrial, organisational and technological change. The process has been applied and refined through 13 interviews with experienced professionals in commercial inkjet in the UK. It has been found to offer significant advantages over the non–visual interview, including improving interviewee engagement and providing opportunities for real–time evaluation. Post–interview, data obtained from the Expert Scan can be synthesised with other scans or used as an input to future–oriented roadmapping activities.
{"title":"Capturing past experience: the Expert Scan visual mapping process","authors":"S. Ford, MichÁ le J. Routley, R. Phaal, D. Probert","doi":"10.1504/IJTIP.2012.047377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTIP.2012.047377","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes and reflects on the development and application of the Expert Scan, a semi–structured visual mapping process, which can be used to record historical interview–based accounts of industrial, organisational and technological change. The process has been applied and refined through 13 interviews with experienced professionals in commercial inkjet in the UK. It has been found to offer significant advantages over the non–visual interview, including improving interviewee engagement and providing opportunities for real–time evaluation. Post–interview, data obtained from the Expert Scan can be synthesised with other scans or used as an input to future–oriented roadmapping activities.","PeriodicalId":52540,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning","volume":"229 1","pages":"47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77060814","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 : 2012-06-18DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2012.047375
Toly Chen
In group–buying, the utility of a customer can only be maximised if the customer can buy the item he or she personally needs at a possibly lowest price, not just an item recommended by another customer or the supplier that he or she is supposed to like. To this end, a software agent is developed in this study to make every customer easily reach the web page he or she browses for a target item for group–buying. An experimental system is constructed in this study to demonstrate the applicability of the software agent. Its advantages and/or disadvantages are also discussed.
{"title":"Towards convenient customer–driven group–buying: an intelligent centralised P2P system","authors":"Toly Chen","doi":"10.1504/IJTIP.2012.047375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTIP.2012.047375","url":null,"abstract":"In group–buying, the utility of a customer can only be maximised if the customer can buy the item he or she personally needs at a possibly lowest price, not just an item recommended by another customer or the supplier that he or she is supposed to like. To this end, a software agent is developed in this study to make every customer easily reach the web page he or she browses for a target item for group–buying. An experimental system is constructed in this study to demonstrate the applicability of the software agent. Its advantages and/or disadvantages are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":52540,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning","volume":"3 1","pages":"16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88775357","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 : 2012-06-18DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2012.047378
Tobias Thornblad, T. Hedner
In the biomedical fi eld multiple stakeholders may collaboratively develop, package and build transactions around technology. This is often referred to as open innovation, open biotechnology or open source R&D. Intellectual Property (IP) and IP rights play important roles in collaborative platforms but little research has previously assessed the impact that such platforms exert on corporate IP-strategies. A case study was therefore conducted of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), CAMBIA Biological Open Source (BiOS) and the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV). Our results impact managerial decision-makers at pharmaceutical, biotech and agriscience companies intending to implement corporate open innovation and IP strategies.
{"title":"The impact of open IP platforms on IP-strategy norms in Life Sciences","authors":"Tobias Thornblad, T. Hedner","doi":"10.1504/IJTIP.2012.047378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTIP.2012.047378","url":null,"abstract":"In the biomedical fi eld multiple stakeholders may collaboratively develop, package and build transactions around technology. This is often referred to as open innovation, open biotechnology or open source R&D. Intellectual Property (IP) and IP rights play important roles in collaborative platforms but little research has previously assessed the impact that such platforms exert on corporate IP-strategies. A case study was therefore conducted of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), CAMBIA Biological Open Source (BiOS) and the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV). Our results impact managerial decision-makers at pharmaceutical, biotech and agriscience companies intending to implement corporate open innovation and IP strategies.","PeriodicalId":52540,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning","volume":"43 1","pages":"60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80590538","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 : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2012.051774
E. L. Madsen
Conceptually the literature acknowledges that entrepreneurship can promote dynamic capabilities. We argue that a firm's strategic entrepreneurial orientation (EO) capture an important aspect of the way a firm develop DC. An instrument to measure four types of DC was developed to test the assumptions. Utilising a longitudinal sample of 226 Norwegian small and medium sized enterprises (SME), we find that EO appears to be the main explanatory factor for the development of the different types of DC controlling for type of industry and different types of resources. This finding largely confirms central claims and assumptions in the literature that entrepreneurship can create and stimulate new combinations of resources.
{"title":"Entrepreneurship and dynamic capabilities - an empirical testing","authors":"E. L. Madsen","doi":"10.1504/IJTIP.2012.051774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTIP.2012.051774","url":null,"abstract":"Conceptually the literature acknowledges that entrepreneurship can promote dynamic capabilities. We argue that a firm's strategic entrepreneurial orientation (EO) capture an important aspect of the way a firm develop DC. An instrument to measure four types of DC was developed to test the assumptions. Utilising a longitudinal sample of 226 Norwegian small and medium sized enterprises (SME), we find that EO appears to be the main explanatory factor for the development of the different types of DC controlling for type of industry and different types of resources. This finding largely confirms central claims and assumptions in the literature that entrepreneurship can create and stimulate new combinations of resources.","PeriodicalId":52540,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning","volume":"48 1","pages":"317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75564285","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 : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2012.051780
O. Hilmola
Currently Apple is seen as a solid performer in high tech sector, but its success formation has been rapid, and built through high end smart phones. However, earlier examples from mobile sector dominant actors do show that this comes together with considerable downside risk. Typically negative spiral is triggered by new technological generation inauguration, and the inability of leading supplier to fully see underlying potential of it. End result is suddenly lost of shareholder value (–50 to –70%) for dominant actor, which is followed by real operational performance deterioration with some years time (first decline in sales prices, followed with a time lag in shipment volume). Our three previous success cases (Benefon, Nokia and RIM) show that in the end valuation of companies is only small fraction of what it was in the peak.
{"title":"Technological change and performance deterioration of mobile phone suppliers","authors":"O. Hilmola","doi":"10.1504/IJTIP.2012.051780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTIP.2012.051780","url":null,"abstract":"Currently Apple is seen as a solid performer in high tech sector, but its success formation has been rapid, and built through high end smart phones. However, earlier examples from mobile sector dominant actors do show that this comes together with considerable downside risk. Typically negative spiral is triggered by new technological generation inauguration, and the inability of leading supplier to fully see underlying potential of it. End result is suddenly lost of shareholder value (–50 to –70%) for dominant actor, which is followed by real operational performance deterioration with some years time (first decline in sales prices, followed with a time lag in shipment volume). Our three previous success cases (Benefon, Nokia and RIM) show that in the end valuation of companies is only small fraction of what it was in the peak.","PeriodicalId":52540,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning","volume":"100 1","pages":"374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88929846","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 : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2012.051781
A. Ledwith, A. Martini, J. Nicholas, A. Nosella
This paper focuses on the practices and techniques that can be used at the front end of innovation to search for radical or discontinuous new product ideas. It addresses a gap in the literature by using empirical, survey data to identify the dimensions of a firm's capability to search for new ideas for radical or discontinuous innovation. To do this, a review of the literature on the front end of innovation was conducted and used to develop an understanding of how to search for radical new product ideas. From this, a questionnaire was developed for the assessment of practices adopted by firms when dealing with the challenges of the search phase of radical innovation. However, there has to date been no thorough attempt to investigate its factorial solution. The purpose of the present study is therefore to investigate the factorial solution, that is, to reduce multiple items to a lesser number of underlying factors that represent the dimensions of searching for radical new ideas. The results from Irish and Italian samples identify five dimensions of the search capability that can be used to search for radical new product ideas.
{"title":"Exploring radical innovation search practices","authors":"A. Ledwith, A. Martini, J. Nicholas, A. Nosella","doi":"10.1504/IJTIP.2012.051781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTIP.2012.051781","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the practices and techniques that can be used at the front end of innovation to search for radical or discontinuous new product ideas. It addresses a gap in the literature by using empirical, survey data to identify the dimensions of a firm's capability to search for new ideas for radical or discontinuous innovation. To do this, a review of the literature on the front end of innovation was conducted and used to develop an understanding of how to search for radical new product ideas. From this, a questionnaire was developed for the assessment of practices adopted by firms when dealing with the challenges of the search phase of radical innovation. However, there has to date been no thorough attempt to investigate its factorial solution. The purpose of the present study is therefore to investigate the factorial solution, that is, to reduce multiple items to a lesser number of underlying factors that represent the dimensions of searching for radical new ideas. The results from Irish and Italian samples identify five dimensions of the search capability that can be used to search for radical new product ideas.","PeriodicalId":52540,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning","volume":"69 1","pages":"389-405"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83610313","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 : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2012.051779
Toly Chen
RFM model is an important method in customer clustering. Chiu and Su (2004) proposed a fuzzy RFM model to overcome the shortcomings of traditional RFM models. However, there are some problems unsolved in Chiu and Su's approach. For example, the number of customer clusters cannot be specified in advance; the inherent structure of customer data which is unknown yet valuable information to the business is not considered in forming customer clusters. To deal with these problems, a fuzzified RFM model is proposed in this study by incorporating the fuzzy c–means approach, which is based on the inherent structure of the data itself. The number of customer clusters can be arbitrarily specified in advance, considering the scarcity of marketing resources and the diversification of marketing strategies. Besides, exploring the content of each customer cluster provides the business with many meaningful suggestions that could be usefully employed to establish target marketing programmes. The example in Chiu and Su's study is adopted to demonstrate the application of the proposed methodology and to make some comparisons.
{"title":"The RFM-FCM approach for customer clustering","authors":"Toly Chen","doi":"10.1504/IJTIP.2012.051779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTIP.2012.051779","url":null,"abstract":"RFM model is an important method in customer clustering. Chiu and Su (2004) proposed a fuzzy RFM model to overcome the shortcomings of traditional RFM models. However, there are some problems unsolved in Chiu and Su's approach. For example, the number of customer clusters cannot be specified in advance; the inherent structure of customer data which is unknown yet valuable information to the business is not considered in forming customer clusters. To deal with these problems, a fuzzified RFM model is proposed in this study by incorporating the fuzzy c–means approach, which is based on the inherent structure of the data itself. The number of customer clusters can be arbitrarily specified in advance, considering the scarcity of marketing resources and the diversification of marketing strategies. Besides, exploring the content of each customer cluster provides the business with many meaningful suggestions that could be usefully employed to establish target marketing programmes. The example in Chiu and Su's study is adopted to demonstrate the application of the proposed methodology and to make some comparisons.","PeriodicalId":52540,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning","volume":"18 1","pages":"358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87620110","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 : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2012.051782
Lena Wagner, D. Baureis, J. Warschat
The growing demand for sustainable technologies and products requires new offers from manufacturing companies. One strategic approach to counter this development is the integration of products and services into Product–Service Systems (PSS). To ensure a coordinated development process of products and services, the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) of innovation is the optimal starting point. In this paper, the FFE approach is analysed in terms of PSS development. Our contribution is based on a structured, systematic literature review, providing extensive insights into the current status of PSS development in the product development process, with special focus on the FFE.
{"title":"How to develop product–service systems in the fuzzy front end of innovation","authors":"Lena Wagner, D. Baureis, J. Warschat","doi":"10.1504/IJTIP.2012.051782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTIP.2012.051782","url":null,"abstract":"The growing demand for sustainable technologies and products requires new offers from manufacturing companies. One strategic approach to counter this development is the integration of products and services into Product–Service Systems (PSS). To ensure a coordinated development process of products and services, the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) of innovation is the optimal starting point. In this paper, the FFE approach is analysed in terms of PSS development. Our contribution is based on a structured, systematic literature review, providing extensive insights into the current status of PSS development in the product development process, with special focus on the FFE.","PeriodicalId":52540,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning","volume":"93 1","pages":"333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80017387","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}
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