Exploratory Innovation in Family-Owned Firms: The Moderating Role of Digital Search

Ardito, Lorenzo; Capolupo, Paolo

doi:10.1109/tem.2022.3231468

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“…That is, the more ICT‐related cited patents, the higher the reliance on digital knowledge searched and recombined during technological development ( Digital Search Intensity ). This choice is in line with the notion that ICTs are enablers of digital innovation processes (OECD, 2016), and that relying on ICT‐related technical knowledge can be considered a proxy for reliance on digital knowledge (Ardito & Capolupo, 2022).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 63%

“…Third, our in-depth analysis of the influence of recombinant search processes on innovation performance also adds to the literature on the (fuzzy) front-end of innovation (Markham et al, 2010), by providing evidence about where to search within the search space to innovate (Lopez-Vega et al, 2016), particularly highlighting the role of intense scientific and digital search (Ardito & Capolupo, 2022;Fleming & Sorenson, 2004). To be specific, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt empirically to examine the role played by digital search intensity in actual innovation performance-even if it provides non-conclusive findings.…”

Section: Theoretical Contributions and Implications For Researchmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…While the potential benefits of relying on digital knowledge have been emphasized, it must be stressed that such an approach represents a discontinuity in many a firm's knowledge base and modus operandi (Lanzolla et al, 2021). The level of this discontinuity may also have to do with the intensity with which digital knowledge enters recombinant search processes (Ardito & Capolupo, 2022). Accordingly, the focus on search intensity over selection should be emphasized in this case as well.…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We look in detail at whether and how cancer‐related inventions originating in an intense adoption of scientific knowledge (hereafter referred to as “scientific search intensity”) and/or digital knowledge (hereafter referred to as “digital search intensity”) become new drugs. The former reflects a recombinant search process thoroughly based on scientific knowledge, while the latter is a recombinant search process based primarily on knowledge pertaining to the domain of information and communication technologies (ICTs), that is, digital technologies (Ardito & Capolupo, 2022; Gupta et al, 2023; Martínez‐Navalón et al, 2023; OECD, 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, such performance does not in effect guide recombinant search processes underlying an invention toward its conversion into new products. Furthermore, very few studies have formally considered the digital world as a space to be searched for innovation purposes (Ardito & Capolupo, 2022). In particular, we focus on search intensity over search selection given that the adoption of certain knowledge components is not beneficial or detrimental per se but is so in relation to the intensity of its adoption.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Converting inventions into innovations to address cancer grand challenges: The role of scientific and digital search intensity

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Messeni Petruzzelli

et al. 2023

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The present study seeks to shed further light on what favors the conversion of inventions into innovations in for‐profit firms and to advance our understanding of how to tackle cancer grand challenges (CGCs). Specifically, following the literature on knowledge search and recombination, we analyze whether and how cancer‐related inventions developed through an intense adoption of scientific knowledge (scientific search intensity) result in (i) a higher number of approved drugs and (ii) a shorter approval time for new drugs. Notably, while the role of science with regard to technological development has been widely studied, the extent to which science‐based solutions relate to new product introduction, especially in terms of coping with grand challenges such as approved cancer drugs, is less known. Furthermore, considering the digitization of (health) R&D and the role of information and communication technologies (i.e., digital technologies) to address grand challenges, we examine whether and how cancer‐related inventions developed through an intense adoption of digital knowledge (digital search intensity) directly affect the extent and speed of cancer drug approval, as well as whether interaction effects between scientific and digital search intensity exist. We develop hypotheses that we test on a sample of 65,861 cancer‐related patents owned by 139 for‐profit firms, collected from the USPTO Cancer Moonshot Patent Data. These have a priority date between 1990 and 2010, and have led to 1035 approved drugs. Results reveal that scientific search intensity is not associated with the number of different drugs developed from a single cancer‐related invention but is associated with the speed at which the invention leads to a newly approved drug. Digital search intensity appears not to directly affect cancer drug approval, but it lessens the effects of scientific search intensity, thus pointing to a limit of digitization in cancer R&D and innovation processes.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 63%