Paths, events and resource use: New developments in understanding innovation processes

Purchase, Sharon; Kum, Christina; Olaru, Doina

doi:10.1016/j.indmarman.2016.05.020

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“…Drawing on Purchase et al (2016), the coding of critical events highlights the embedded and temporal nature of the innovation path undertaken by Sinergiain connection with the development of the network around them (Hedaa and Törnroos, 2008). The establishment of a framework agreement (Mouzas and Ford, 2012) and business relationships with selected actors in the local academic and business settingalready familiar and active in the I4.0 trajectoryrepresent key activities allowing to tap into valuable technological and managerial resources.…”

Section: The Innovation Pathmentioning

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From knowledge broker to solution provider in the Industry 4.0 setting: the innovation path of a small consulting firm

Mersico

Carloni

Bocconcelli

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Purpose This study aims to explore the resource development process implemented by a small consulting firm, active in a traditional industrial context, pursuing the innovation path to develop solutions within the Industry 4.0 (I4.0) domain. Design/methodology/approach This study undertakes a single qualitative case study of Sinergia, an Italian innovative small consulting firm. The case study is analyzed through critical events and adopting the 4 R model, developed within the industrial marketing and purchasing (IMP) approach. Findings The analysis highlights a transition from knowledge broker to solution provider, based on a process of networking, with a relevant strategizing effort, and of assembling internal, external and shared resources. Three patterns in the evolution of the company’s innovation path emerge: resource-oriented networking, hybrid resource development and resource assembly. Originality/value The empirical study provides novel empirical evidence over localized innovation processes in I4.0 by exploring the innovation path pursued by a small consulting firm in connection with the local business. The study represents a theoretical development in terms of the 4 R model as it suggests the need to further conceptualize the category of technical resources – including products and facilities – in the increasingly complex I4.0 domain and provides insights on the changing role of actors in networks underpinned by emerging resource structures.

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Section: The Innovation Pathmentioning

confidence: 99%

From knowledge broker to solution provider in the Industry 4.0 setting: the innovation path of a small consulting firm

Mersico

Carloni

Bocconcelli

et al. 2022

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“…Sponsored enterprises form closer connections with governments, banks, venture capitalists, and other actors, which allows them to gain easier access to resources (Li et al, 2008; Guariglia and Liu, 2014; Song et al, 2015; Yu et al, 2016). Because of these extra resources, sponsored enterprises are more likely to invest in R&D and show significant innovation performance (Wan et al, 2011; Keupp and Gassmann, 2013; Du and Mickiewicz, 2016; Purchase et al, 2016). Accordingly, we propose the following hypothesis:Hypothesis Organizational sponsorship improves firms' innovation performance.…”

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Government sponsorship and innovation: the Gazelle Plan in China's Zhongguancun Science Park

Zhang

Guan

2022

R & D Management

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Promoting high‐growth enterprises' innovation performance has become an explicit policy focus in recent years. This study extends the extant literature on the effects of public funding schemes by focusing on an under‐researched sponsorship scheme designed to develop the financial market and mobilize external finance for innovation. We posit that external finance has positive and moderating effects on innovation. The positive effect improves firms' innovation performance; the moderating effect diminishes when the amount of external finance received by firms exceeds a threshold level. We further hypothesize that sponsorship improves firms' innovation performance by enhancing the positive and diminishing moderating effects. To test our hypotheses, we selected Zhongguancun Science Park's Gazelle Plan as the study context. We constructed a balanced panel of 37,270 firm‐year observations and adopted difference‐in‐differences and panel threshold models to provide an evidenced‐based approach for refining public support policies for firm innovation. The results suggest that the Gazelle Plan has limited effects on enhancing the positive and moderating effects of venture capital and promoting new product sales. Implications and suggestions for academia and policymakers are provided.

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“…Kivleniece and Quelin (2012) argue that public-private ties are marked by inherent tensions between private profit-oriented goals and public goals. This means that the knowledge generated by collaboration between universities and private companies could be made later available to other Ambidextrous leadership (214) (Cho et al, 2020); (Li et al, 2016); (Suzuki, 2018); (2) (Asif & Vries, 2014); (Fundin et al, 2021); (Rafailidis et al, 2017); (Harmancioglu et al, 2020); (Purchase et al, 2016); (Strese et al, 2016) Ambidextrous strategies and the need to balance both competition and innovation X X (Sengupta & Ray, 2017) Interrelationships between the two pillars of ambidexterity (research and knowledge transfer) in universities -- (Pangarso et al, 2020) Nexus between absorption capacity, and sustainable competitive advantage X companies through the universities. However, this tension, derived from who has the right to exploit the knowledge generated, is not different from the tensions found in open innovation.…”

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Ambidexterity in entrepreneurial universities and performance measurement systems. A literature review

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The main purpose of this research is to analyze the exploration and exploitation of knowledge in universities that support innovation and entrepreneurship in their environment. For this, the Performance Measurement Systems (PMS) of the universities management are analyzed as a proxy for the implementation of the strategic vision of the universities. This study is based on a systematic literature review on the subject, supported by the technical possibilities offered by the MAXQDA (The Art of Data Analysis) program. The databases used were the following: Elsevier (Science Direct), Springer, Wiley and Taylor & Francis. The main findings suggest that organizational ambidexterity, in general, develops unevenly and from different approaches, among which innovation, learning and strategy stand out. However, organizational ambidexterity hardly develops in a university context, where most of the university activities require some knowledge of the technological frontier. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze and understand these two dimensions (exploration and exploitation) and their positive influence on entrepreneurship. In a context where the development of technology and science happens at an ever-increasing speed, a balance between exploration and exploitation is necessary, which should be reflected in the different control mechanisms in academic environments, such as the Performance Measurement Systems (PMS). The analysis of these systems will allow to know the position of the universities in the face of ambidexterity.

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Paths, events and resource use: New developments in understanding innovation processes

Cited by 24 publications

References 45 publications

From knowledge broker to solution provider in the Industry 4.0 setting: the innovation path of a small consulting firm

From knowledge broker to solution provider in the Industry 4.0 setting: the innovation path of a small consulting firm

Government sponsorship and innovation: the Gazelle Plan in China's Zhongguancun Science Park

Ambidexterity in entrepreneurial universities and performance measurement systems. A literature review

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