Pub Date : 2016-01-20DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2016.074239
G. McMillan, F. Bezzina, Debra L. Casey
Malta has recently embarked on a new research and innovation (R&I) plan called the National Research and Innovation Strategy 2020. A large part of this strategy was to engage in smart specialisation efforts to determine where best to allocate the country's limited R&I funds. One of the areas highlighted was aquaculture. The purpose of this research paper is to examine, using bibliometrics, where the science and technological frontiers are in aquaculture. Our findings are, not surprisingly, that Malta plays a somewhat minor role in these current efforts. However, we also uncover areas currently being researched that might prove valuable to the Maltese efforts in aquaculture.
{"title":"Smart specialisation in Malta: A bibliometric look at aquaculture","authors":"G. McMillan, F. Bezzina, Debra L. Casey","doi":"10.1504/IJTIP.2016.074239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTIP.2016.074239","url":null,"abstract":"Malta has recently embarked on a new research and innovation (R&I) plan called the National Research and Innovation Strategy 2020. A large part of this strategy was to engage in smart specialisation efforts to determine where best to allocate the country's limited R&I funds. One of the areas highlighted was aquaculture. The purpose of this research paper is to examine, using bibliometrics, where the science and technological frontiers are in aquaculture. Our findings are, not surprisingly, that Malta plays a somewhat minor role in these current efforts. However, we also uncover areas currently being researched that might prove valuable to the Maltese efforts in aquaculture.","PeriodicalId":52540,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning","volume":"35 2 1","pages":"51-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74966112","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 : 2015-07-31DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070849
M. Morillo, C. Dell’Era, R. Verganti
The growing attention to design as a strategic asset has recently triggered interest from scholars and executives in exploring the link between design, technology and management. Design-driven innovation addresses the symbolic and emotional value of products through a collaborative research process. Although literature recognises the importance of new partnerships, research on how firms manage them is yet scarce; in particular, interpreters with a significantly different profile from the ones in their existing network. This paper investigates the collaborative practices of a design-driven furniture manufacturer with a technology-driven 'outsider' interpreter. The study suggests that a decentralised model of the interpreters' network better suits the case of outsider partners, and highlights managerial practices for creating new innovation networks. Although findings are representative of our specific case, we believe they are relevant enough in the design-driven innovation and open innovation domains. Additional research will contribute to further elucidating the implications of collaborating with outsiders.
{"title":"Exploring the role of 'outsider' interpreters in the development of design-driven innovations","authors":"M. Morillo, C. Dell’Era, R. Verganti","doi":"10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070849","url":null,"abstract":"The growing attention to design as a strategic asset has recently triggered interest from scholars and executives in exploring the link between design, technology and management. Design-driven innovation addresses the symbolic and emotional value of products through a collaborative research process. Although literature recognises the importance of new partnerships, research on how firms manage them is yet scarce; in particular, interpreters with a significantly different profile from the ones in their existing network. This paper investigates the collaborative practices of a design-driven furniture manufacturer with a technology-driven 'outsider' interpreter. The study suggests that a decentralised model of the interpreters' network better suits the case of outsider partners, and highlights managerial practices for creating new innovation networks. Although findings are representative of our specific case, we believe they are relevant enough in the design-driven innovation and open innovation domains. Additional research will contribute to further elucidating the implications of collaborating with outsiders.","PeriodicalId":52540,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning","volume":"35 1","pages":"222-253"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77694920","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 : 2015-07-31DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070854
D. Henri, P. Clerc
3-D printing, with all its wide range of applications is important not only on the point of view of its R&D, but also in the real economy since various companies already use this process to produce various products available on the market. This presentation use the automatic patent analysis (APA) to give to the reader a wide spectrum of the stakeholders in that field as well as the technological trend and the application domains. This paper will also demonstrate the interest to use the APA in other R&D domains. A special attention will be taken to the universities and institutes engaged in the field of 3-D printing, because this is one of the faster ways to move from patents to the upstream fundamental research.
{"title":"Trends in 3-D printing from a patent information analysis (APA)","authors":"D. Henri, P. Clerc","doi":"10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070854","url":null,"abstract":"3-D printing, with all its wide range of applications is important not only on the point of view of its R&D, but also in the real economy since various companies already use this process to produce various products available on the market. This presentation use the automatic patent analysis (APA) to give to the reader a wide spectrum of the stakeholders in that field as well as the technological trend and the application domains. This paper will also demonstrate the interest to use the APA in other R&D domains. A special attention will be taken to the universities and institutes engaged in the field of 3-D printing, because this is one of the faster ways to move from patents to the upstream fundamental research.","PeriodicalId":52540,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning","volume":"15 1","pages":"354"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77000634","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 : 2015-07-31DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070848
Nina Lidegaard, H. Boer, M. Møller
The role of purchasing has changed over the past two to three decades. The focus is no longer limited to purchasing manufacturing inputs, but also includes sourcing of innovations from, and even co-developing technologies together with, suppliers. Furthermore, purchasing has obtained a much more mature role in corporate strategy. These changes have serious implications for the purchasing process, its characteristics and organisation. Previous research indicates that none of the prevailing solutions, functional departments and cross-functional teams, embedded in a centralised, decentralised or hybrid overall structure, deliver the expected results. Contingency theory predicts that the success of a firm depends on the fit among characteristics of, amongst others, the firm's processes and organisational structure. The objective of this paper is to propose and illustrate a process-based typological theory of purchasing and (strategic) sourcing organisation.
{"title":"Organising purchasing and (strategic) sourcing: towards a typological theory","authors":"Nina Lidegaard, H. Boer, M. Møller","doi":"10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070848","url":null,"abstract":"The role of purchasing has changed over the past two to three decades. The focus is no longer limited to purchasing manufacturing inputs, but also includes sourcing of innovations from, and even co-developing technologies together with, suppliers. Furthermore, purchasing has obtained a much more mature role in corporate strategy. These changes have serious implications for the purchasing process, its characteristics and organisation. Previous research indicates that none of the prevailing solutions, functional departments and cross-functional teams, embedded in a centralised, decentralised or hybrid overall structure, deliver the expected results. Contingency theory predicts that the success of a firm depends on the fit among characteristics of, amongst others, the firm's processes and organisational structure. The objective of this paper is to propose and illustrate a process-based typological theory of purchasing and (strategic) sourcing organisation.","PeriodicalId":52540,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning","volume":"343 1","pages":"254-272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77683066","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 : 2015-07-31DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070853
S. Viljainen, M. Nilsson, Kalevi Kyläheiko
The European electricity markets have been a huge laboratory for a plethora of energy policies since liberalisation begun in the UK and Norway in the early 1990s. Foremost, subsidy-based energy pol ...
{"title":"A farewell to alms? Competitiveness and European electricity markets","authors":"S. Viljainen, M. Nilsson, Kalevi Kyläheiko","doi":"10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070853","url":null,"abstract":"The European electricity markets have been a huge laboratory for a plethora of energy policies since liberalisation begun in the UK and Norway in the early 1990s. Foremost, subsidy-based energy pol ...","PeriodicalId":52540,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning","volume":"20 1","pages":"336-352"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78656507","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 : 2015-07-31DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070850
P. Neirotti, E. Paolucci
Research on open innovation has not yet built a comprehensive conceptualisation on how innovation intermediaries help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in their capability development. In this paper we analyse the role that innovation intermediaries play in supporting SMEs in their international growth. We based our analysis on explorative case studies on 24 Italian firms that participated in an international program organised by UCLA. Results show that, thanks to the role played by a university intermediary, SMEs have been able to quickly learn new strategic management competences and to overcome 'local search' in their access to new market knowledge. This learning process follows different patterns in entrepreneurial and managerial firms. In raising this evidence, the paper provides a novelty contribution to open innovation studies as it describes how innovation intermediaries facilitate SMEs' international growth by facilitating their access to market knowledge in foreign countries.
{"title":"Innovation intermediaries as agents for SMEs' organisational learning: a case study on the UCLA's global access program","authors":"P. Neirotti, E. Paolucci","doi":"10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070850","url":null,"abstract":"Research on open innovation has not yet built a comprehensive conceptualisation on how innovation intermediaries help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in their capability development. In this paper we analyse the role that innovation intermediaries play in supporting SMEs in their international growth. We based our analysis on explorative case studies on 24 Italian firms that participated in an international program organised by UCLA. Results show that, thanks to the role played by a university intermediary, SMEs have been able to quickly learn new strategic management competences and to overcome 'local search' in their access to new market knowledge. This learning process follows different patterns in entrepreneurial and managerial firms. In raising this evidence, the paper provides a novelty contribution to open innovation studies as it describes how innovation intermediaries facilitate SMEs' international growth by facilitating their access to market knowledge in foreign countries.","PeriodicalId":52540,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning","volume":"112 1","pages":"294-317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79218421","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 : 2015-07-31DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070851
P. Wolf, Jacqueline Holzer
This paper reports on a study that investigated how and by whom innovation practice is organised in private organisations. The authors apply a sociomaterial perspective from which innovation must be understood as the emergent result of the inseparable interplay between the social and the material, i.e., human and non-human actors. Eight interviews with innovation managers are analysed with a new method that is called 'performative agential method'. This method allows making the inseparability of the social and the material visible and describable. Findings show that in innovation practices, actor-networks develop when actors make their interests relevant to other actors. Open innovation literature is confirmed insofar as particularly actors coming from outside of the organisation are found to be highly relevant for innovation practices. However, this study also reveals that it is not necessarily human actors who trigger innovation processes.
{"title":"Behind the stage: the making of innovation practice in private organisations","authors":"P. Wolf, Jacqueline Holzer","doi":"10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070851","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on a study that investigated how and by whom innovation practice is organised in private organisations. The authors apply a sociomaterial perspective from which innovation must be understood as the emergent result of the inseparable interplay between the social and the material, i.e., human and non-human actors. Eight interviews with innovation managers are analysed with a new method that is called 'performative agential method'. This method allows making the inseparability of the social and the material visible and describable. Findings show that in innovation practices, actor-networks develop when actors make their interests relevant to other actors. Open innovation literature is confirmed insofar as particularly actors coming from outside of the organisation are found to be highly relevant for innovation practices. However, this study also reveals that it is not necessarily human actors who trigger innovation processes.","PeriodicalId":52540,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning","volume":"26 1","pages":"318-335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78835891","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 : 2015-07-31DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070846
G. Berendsen, R. Middel, Ineke Pieters, Fabian Angard, Fredrik Hillerström
Social media can be a useful tool in order to interact with customers and open up innovation efforts. Our case studies of firms aim to outline if, how and why social media is utilised in their product development processes. Our results show that the use of social media within product development is limited among our respondents, mainly due to limited resources in combination with a low amount of customers. The results show that a low number of customers impede the ability to realise the possible gains of using social media to facilitate communication among a large number of users. Additional challenges are perceived to be the difficulty in controlling content, measuring gains and dealing with security issues. There is no consensus among the respondents with regard to social media's perceived future potential within product development; some are quite hesitant, other companies anticipate increased potential in the future.
{"title":"Social media within sustainable product development: an exploratory multiple case study on the perception of social media usability in the new product development process","authors":"G. Berendsen, R. Middel, Ineke Pieters, Fabian Angard, Fredrik Hillerström","doi":"10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070846","url":null,"abstract":"Social media can be a useful tool in order to interact with customers and open up innovation efforts. Our case studies of firms aim to outline if, how and why social media is utilised in their product development processes. Our results show that the use of social media within product development is limited among our respondents, mainly due to limited resources in combination with a low amount of customers. The results show that a low number of customers impede the ability to realise the possible gains of using social media to facilitate communication among a large number of users. Additional challenges are perceived to be the difficulty in controlling content, measuring gains and dealing with security issues. There is no consensus among the respondents with regard to social media's perceived future potential within product development; some are quite hesitant, other companies anticipate increased potential in the future.","PeriodicalId":52540,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning","volume":"118 1","pages":"273-293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81331537","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 : 2015-07-31DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070847
D. Chiaroni, V. Chiesa, F. Frattini, Riccardo Terruzzi
This paper focuses on a relatively neglected aspect of the open innovation model, i.e., the anatomy of the organisational change process a firm goes through when it modifies its strategic approach to innovation from a closed to an open approach. By analysing the case of an Italian firm in the renewable energy industry, this paper illuminates the role of pilot projects in fostering this process of organisational change. For each stage of this organisational change process, the paper identifies the variables that should be taken into account to purposefully manage pilot projects as instruments to enable transition from closed to open innovation. The paper provides a discussion of these findings and outlines avenues for future research.
{"title":"Implementing open innovation: a case study in the renewable energy industry","authors":"D. Chiaroni, V. Chiesa, F. Frattini, Riccardo Terruzzi","doi":"10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTIP.2015.070847","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on a relatively neglected aspect of the open innovation model, i.e., the anatomy of the organisational change process a firm goes through when it modifies its strategic approach to innovation from a closed to an open approach. By analysing the case of an Italian firm in the renewable energy industry, this paper illuminates the role of pilot projects in fostering this process of organisational change. For each stage of this organisational change process, the paper identifies the variables that should be taken into account to purposefully manage pilot projects as instruments to enable transition from closed to open innovation. The paper provides a discussion of these findings and outlines avenues for future research.","PeriodicalId":52540,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning","volume":"10 1","pages":"195-221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81542656","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 : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2017.10012694
V. Lazzarotti, F. Visconti, L. Pellegrini, Rafaela Gjergji
This study explores the open innovation (OI) choices in terms of partner-type, their determinants and the related innovation performance in family firms (FFs) with respect to non-FFs by means of a European cross-country survey. Results show that FFs are in general less open than non-FFs when we consider openness in terms of breadth, while they are more open when we consider openness in terms of depth. Distinctive determinants of depth for FFs regards the level of aggressiveness of their innovation strategy when scientific partners are considered. These partners are more important for FFs than for non-FFs to achieve efficiency-type performance. Moreover, a peculiar context shapes the relationship between partner-type depths and innovation performance: the external social capital (ESC) is more relevant for FFs to achieve novelty-type performance, while the internal social capital (ISC) exerts a particularly negative role for them when efficiency-type performance is considered.
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