What Is an Ecosystem? Incorporating 25 Years of Ecosystem Research

Bogers, Marcel; Sims, Jonathan; West, Joel

doi:10.5465/ambpp.2019.11080abstract

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“…Collaboration An ecosystem's behavior, dynamics, and innovativeness are an aggregated result of interactions among its agents (and not a simple summation of agents' behaviors and performances), which implies synergy effects that enlarge an ecosystem's productivity always to a greater result of its participants complementary actions. Adner, 2017;Jacobides et al, 2018;Bogers et al, 2019;Trischler et al, 2020;J. Huang et al, 2020;Oksanen & Hautamäki, 2015;Costa & Matias, 2020.…”

Section: Geographical Governancementioning

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Innovation Ecosystem framework directed to Sustainable Development Goal #17 partnerships implementation

Duarte

Reis

Fleury

et al. 2021

Sustainable Development

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Partnerships are demanded to implement a more integrated approach to sustainable development problems. The complex character of sustainability requires the participation of many societal spheres to resolve them. Sustainable Development Goal #17Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development" recognizes multi-stakeholder partnerships as important vehicles for mobilizing and sharing knowledge, expertise, technologies, and financial resources to support the achievement of the SDGs in all countries. Innovation Ecosystems (IE) are dynamic purposive multi-stakeholders' networks with complex relationships built on trust, co-creation of value, and exchange of complementary technologies or competencies. Few studies investigated the IEs relating to sustainability and specially within the SDGs. This study provides a descriptive analysis of the relationship between IE and the SDGs, concerning the question about how the IE framework can orient the SDG #17 partnership implementation. The methodology is based on the literature review and analysis of documents from the United Nations, available at the UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform -2021. Four core drivers were identified and discussed: Geographical Governance, Collaboration, Knowledge Transmission, and Value co-creation. Considering the IE lens, the SDGs can be addressed as the purpose engaging the Major Groups, which are the key contributors in terms of being part of the challenges and solutions. There is a need to prepare stakeholders to be ecosystem conscious and aware of the demanded innovations. Future research should include describing methods to measure IE performance considering the SDGs and empirical studies to analyze the ecosystem roles and relations of the Major Groups.

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Section: Geographical Governancementioning

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Innovation Ecosystem framework directed to Sustainable Development Goal #17 partnerships implementation

Duarte

Reis

Fleury

et al. 2021

Sustainable Development

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“…An ecosystem is "a group of autonomous firms and individuals whose actions, decisions, and investments are complementary in the sense that their value as a system is greater than the sum of the values of the separate parts." 1 Ecosystems as organizational formsan alternative to firms and markets-are enabled by the design of modular technological systems. 2 System modularization reduces the need for tight control and coordination, and it simplifies the coordination of innovation across firm boundaries.…”

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The Forces of Ecosystem Evolution

Holgersson

Baldwin²,

Chesbrough

et al. 2022

California Management Review

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Summary Ecosystems are the result of a delicate balance between centripetal forces that push economic activities toward integration, and centrifugal forces that pull economic activities out onto the market. Ecosystems evolve when these forces change. For example, technological complementarities—the main source of centripetal force—are dynamic and may be commoditized, generalized, or standardized over time. Management and coordination also change: for example, open innovation practices enable firms to move innovation activities from the in-house R&D lab out into the ecosystem. This article discusses how such dynamics in technologies and management lead to ecosystem evolution.

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“…However, the concept of innovation ecosystem has become subject to much debate due to its various approaches found in the literature (Bogers et al, 2019;Foguesatto et al, 2021). Oh et al (2016) criticize the concept when it comes to the usefulness and distinction of existing definitions of innovation systems, in addition to the fact that biological inspiration is an imperfect analogy for addressing ecosystems.…”

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“…Despite the evidence on the role of different innovation ecosystem actors in combating crises, the actions in which these actors engage in response to crises still lack studies (Park et al, 2021), especially considering the different regional contexts (Bogers et al, 2019).…”

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Initial actions of the Brazilian regional innovation ecosystem against the COVID-19 pandemic

Miranda

Viana²,

Carneiro³

et al. 2022

Int. J. Innov.

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Objective: We have analyzed Brazil’s initial COVID-19 combat actions by the regional innovation ecosystem actors.Methodology/approach: This is a descriptive and qualitative study using documentary research. In total, 471 reports collected via web scraping were submitted to content analysis (using a codebook and intercoder test) and correspondence analysis.Originality/relevance: From an innovation ecosystem perspective, this study fulfills an identified need to understand how different actors have proposed initial solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, considering different geographic regions.Main results: According to the seminal literature, in the more economically and socially favored regions, the government-industry dyadic model was corroborated, while in the less favored regions, the most innovative actors were universities and society. Our results have not shown the quintuple helix’s performance, which leads us to ponder the use of this model in crises. Furthermore, although the quadruple helix model was observed in our analyses, in the Brazilian geographic regions the helices were not designed in a transversal way.Theoretical contributions: We propose that the geography of a pandemic combat occurs unevenly by the innovation ecosystem actors. Moreover, the helices ordering refers to the theoretical development process and not to the complementarity of the role between actors.Practical implications: This article highlights the need for integrated management of the innovation ecosystem’s initial actions in a pandemic, preventing regions from being neglected, especially those with lower levels of wealth or quality of life.

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What Is an Ecosystem? Incorporating 25 Years of Ecosystem Research

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Innovation Ecosystem framework directed to Sustainable Development Goal #17 partnerships implementation

Innovation Ecosystem framework directed to Sustainable Development Goal #17 partnerships implementation

The Forces of Ecosystem Evolution

Initial actions of the Brazilian regional innovation ecosystem against the COVID-19 pandemic

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