Sustainable and smart product innovation ecosystem: An integrative status review and future perspectives

Abstract

Sustainable and smart product (SSP) is a new generation of smart products characterized by servitization and sustainablility concerns. The ever-increasing complexity of SSP provides challenges for enterprises to conduct SSP innovation for sustainability. It is increasingly important for organizations to adjust the innovation strategy from organization-based innovation to ecosystem-based co-innovation. Innovation ecosystem a promising approach to improve SSP innovation and address cross-organizational collaboration issues in co-innovation for sustainability, as it promotes the flow, integration, and allocation of innovative resources and knowledge within ecosystem. However, SSP and innovation ecosystem were investigated separately. The purpose of this paper is to conduct integrative research on SSP innovation ecosystem (SSPIE) for understanding innovation ecosystem-based SSP innovation that lead to better innovation performance and sustainability. The birth, definition, and characteristics were elaborated. This paper contributes to the emerging field of SSPIE by highlighting research gaps for addressing the challenges and suggesting future research directions.