Crack the Cross-border Network Governance Path of Disruptive Technology Innovation

Abstract

Disruptive technology innovation is a process in which technologies, products or services are initially inferior than those provided by incumbents in the attributes that mainstream consumers value, but they can attract and satisfy the consumers in low-end or new markets with advantages in performance attributes (such as being cheap, simple, or convenient) that these consumers value but which at the same time are neglected by mainstream markets. At the same time, this paradigm can be applied on higher levels (i.e. by international business corporations or/and governments for political and economic decision-making processes). In order to make the research on disruptive innovation more comprehensive, we built up a multilevel theoretical framework of influence factors for disruptive innovation, and we proposed the level of analysis of disruptive innovation into five levels. In this paper, we propose a case study for evaluating governance models based on the cross-border region (CBR) among three countries. The results show that CBI and CBC have shaped opportunities for environmental governance and for governance models in other sectors. The CBGS framework can be used for measuring and evaluating the CBG according to the evaluation criteria and elaborate some recommendations. This framework could contribute to further systematic analyses and research of disruptive innovations in the future and can provide reference for policy-makers to successfully predict disruptive innovation.