Complexity and learning behaviors in product innovation

Chapman, Russell L.; Hyland, Paul

doi:10.1016/s0166-4972(02)00121-9

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“…Further research is required to know if it is possible to identify and understand the patterns and morphology of crises. The role of human resources also becomes important in this respect, as was stressed by authors like Montalvo [77] and Chapman [78].…”

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The unexpected course of institutional innovation processes: inquiry into innovation processes in land development practices across europe

Timmermans¹,

Dijk²,

Jagt³

et al. 2011

Int. J. DNE

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Changes in planning practices can be explained from the prevailing theoretical juxtaposition of 'institutional design' and 'institutional evolution'; two schools of thought that are at the extremes of assumptions on modifi ability. The two extremes are considered to be inextricably linked to each other and cannot be separated; institutional design at a higher level highly infl uences institutional evolution at a lower level. In this paper we add the opposite direction of their interdependence. We found that small and sometimes even unexpected efforts of institutional design at a low level of scale can, when aggregated, result into an evolution of collective institutions at a higher level. We participated in a cooperative project between research and practice, which was established as an exchange project on innovation in land development. We investigated the genesis of institutional change in land development, which is a specifi c regional planning instrument. We analyzed 40 planning practices that were presented by land agencies from seven EU regions (Flanders, the Netherlands, North Rhine-Westphalia, Galicia, Portugal, Hungary, and Lithuania) as their most innovative ones. We studied the histories of 14 of them intensively, using grounded data gathered in visits, discussions, and in-depth interviews with key persons. We found great similarity across these 14 cases in terms of the distinctive patterns relating to local processes leading up to systemic innovations: seemingly small, local, often unexpected and unpredictable occurrences appeared to have set the process of innovation in motion. The evidence demonstrates the relevance of the landscape metaphor found in theories on Complex Adaptive Systems for understanding institutional change in planning practice.

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confidence: 95%

The unexpected course of institutional innovation processes: inquiry into innovation processes in land development practices across europe

Timmermans¹,

Dijk²,

Jagt³

et al. 2011

Int. J. DNE

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“…Numerous authors have argued that services and their innovations comprise unique attributes which distinguish them from product or manufacturing innovations, such as their intangible nature, inseparability, and enhanced interactivity between client and firm (Gallouj, 2002;Blind and Hipp, 2003;Chapman and Hyland, 2003). These attributes of manufacturing and services may have implications for ease with which firms enter and acquire knowledge from export markets, and hence for the learning by exporting effect.…”

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confidence: 99%

Learning by exporting: Lessons from high-technology SMEs

Love

Ganotakis

2013

International Business Review

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Theory points to the existence of a 'learning by exporting effect', in which exposure to export markets enhances performance through exposure to the knowledge stocks of trading partners. We investigate the learning by exporting hypothesis by examining the effect of exporting on the subsequent innovation performance of UK high-tech SMEs. We find evidence of learning by exporting, but the pattern of this effect is relatively complex. Exporting helps high-tech SMEs innovate subsequently, but does not make them more innovation intensive. There is also evidence that it is consistent exposure to export markets that helps firms overcome the innovation hurdle, but that there is a positive scale effect of exposure to export markets which allows innovative firms to sell more of their new-to-market products on entering export markets. Service sector firms are able to reap the benefits of exposure to export markets at an earlier (entry) stage of the internationalization process than are manufacturing firms. Firms producing a rapidly changing portfolio of innovative products exhibit higher 'churn' in terms of entry to and exit from export markets than low-intensity innovators, and this is reflected in the effects of entry and exit into and out of such markets.

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“…A inovação de produtos e processos está se tornando rapidamente um requisito essencial para construir ou manter vantagem competitiva e crescimento de longo prazo, tanto em empresas de manufatura como de serviços (Chapman & Hyland, 2004). Contudo, existem barreiras que podem dificultar a inovação, retardando e até mesmo impedindo o desenvolvimento tecnológico de empresas e países, uma vez que a competitividade de uma nação depende da capacidade de inovação das suas indústrias (Porter, 1993).…”

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A Longitudinal Study of Innovation Management in the Medical, Hospital and Dental Care Equipment Industry in Ribeirão Preto

Dias

Porto

2011

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RESUMOO objetivo deste estudo é identificar como as empresas do setor de equipamentos médicos, hospitalares e odontológicos de Ribeirão Preto gerenciam o processo de inovação, observando o perfil e a evolução da gestão tecnológica dos casos analisados. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa, de caráter exploratório, na qual foram investigadas quatro empresas em 2005 e, posteriormente, em 2007. Os responsáveis pelo planejamento tecnológico foram entrevistados mediante a aplicação de um roteiro de entrevista semiestruturado. O banco de patentes do Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial (INPI) também foi consultado no intuito de se analisar os depósitos realizados por essas empresas. Os resultados obtidos evidenciaram que, embora a inovação tenha sido considerada importante para as empresas pesquisadas, existe uma necessidade de maior estruturação e visão estratégica alinhadas com a inovação, bem como uma postura menos reativa por parte das empresas em relação a esse tema. O estudo conclui que alguns resultados positivos puderam ser observados na segunda rodada de entrevistas se comparados àqueles verificados inicialmente, mas ainda existe uma carência na gestão da inovação dessas empresas. Palavras-chave:Equipamentos médicos, hospitalares e odontológicos; Gestão da inovação; Patentes.

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Complexity and learning behaviors in product innovation

Cited by 107 publications

References 12 publications

The unexpected course of institutional innovation processes: inquiry into innovation processes in land development practices across europe

The unexpected course of institutional innovation processes: inquiry into innovation processes in land development practices across europe

Learning by exporting: Lessons from high-technology SMEs

A Longitudinal Study of Innovation Management in the Medical, Hospital and Dental Care Equipment Industry in Ribeirão Preto

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