Innovative Entities Research Articles

Unveiling the dynamic evolution of innovation networks in emerging economies: A complex network approach

AbstractThe innovation network of enterprises in emerging economies is a complex system, comprising numerous interconnected elements. In the context of a dynamic and volatile market, innovation entities evolve the evolution of the local world through collaborative innovation and interactions. To accurately replicate the actual dynamics of the enterprise innovation network, an in‐depth analysis is essential to delineate the growth and reduction mechanisms of diverse nodal entities. This research, based on the classical complex network paradigm, proposes a model that is based on preferential attachment and pruning mechanisms. This model reflects the evolutionary trajectory of enterprise innovation networks and was subjected to simulation analysis using MATLAB. The findings prove that simulation is an effective analytical tool for understanding the evolutionary mechanisms of innovation networks within emerging economies. The model clearly demonstrates the complex evolution of enterprise innovation networks, providing both theoretical foundations and practical guidance for strategic resource allocation and network governance within corporate environments.

Innovative Development of Regional Industry: analysis, problems, and prospects (on the example of the Udmurt Republic)

Purpose: the study aims to analyze industrial development in the Udmurtia and propose measures to foster innovation. These efforts may enhance regional manufacturers' order portfolio and enhance the region's competitiveness both nationally and internationally.Methods: the research employs a complex of methods including factual, dynamic, causal, correlation-regression and structural analysis, alongside generalization, comparison, logical analysis, and graphical visualization.Results: the article analyzes the development of the industry in the Udmurtia, known for its strong presence in the military-industrial complex (MIC). The study delves into current industry trends, innovation indicators, and practices of MIC enterprises. It highlights obstacles to innovation and suggests measures to boost innovation, increase output volumes, and bolster the industry's adaptability to emerging challenges.Conclusions and Relevance: the regional enterprises of the manufacturing industry and MIC are the leading producers of innovation in the region. However, the proportion of innovative industrial products in the overall regional output is limited to 10%. Correlation and regression analysis showed the significance of the level of innovative activity of organizations and the share of organizations carrying out technological innovations in the effectiveness of innovative activity in the manufacturing industry. Innovation can be encouraged through various means, such as attracting investments, establishing a regional Agency for Innovation Development, digital platformization, and fostering integration among innovation entities with the help of an innovation accelerator, taking advantage of new market niche opportunities, stimulated by promoting corporate entrepreneurship. The region’s future prospects are closely tied to the development of the high-tech sector of unmanned aerial systems, what is the subject of scientific interest of the author's future research.

Review and Prospects of Green Innovation Ecosystems from the Perspective of Value Emergence

With the rise of research on the integration of emergence theory and complex systems, value emergence has become a new model of value creation in green innovation ecosystems. Exploring the research status of green innovation ecosystems from the perspective of value emergence has become a research hotspot in the field of management science. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to use bibliometric methods, explore the current research status of green innovation ecosystems from the perspective of value emergence, and, more importantly, provide a future direction for the integration of emergence theory into complex systems. In this paper, a search was conducted in the Web of Science and CNKI databases, with a time limit from 2009 to May 2023, and through further screening, 159 articles were collected, and CiteSpace software (CiteSpace.6.3.R1) was used for visualizing and exploring bibliometric networks. This study innovatively introduce the value emergence perspective in the context of green innovation ecosystems. The basic interaction, dynamic promotion, and feedback loop of value emergence are taken as the research framework, and the generation mechanism and dynamic evolution of the green innovation ecosystem are analyzed. Finally, three prospects for future research are presented: How do green innovation entities generate basic resources? How do digital transformation and dynamic capabilities promote emerging value? How do internal models and external identifiers promote feedback loops? This paper is highly important for promoting theoretical exploration in the field of green innovation research.

Study on the impact of green digital finance on low-carbon transition of energy consumption structure under multidimensional perspective-empirical evidence from China

Green digital finance plays a crucial role in driving green production, consumption and facilitating the low-carbon transition of energy consumption structures. This paper delves into the impact of green digital finance on this transformation from a multidimensional perspective for the first time. The study reveals that developing green digital finance effectively elevates the level of carbon reduction in energy consumption structures. Both industrial restructuring and innovation in green, low-carbon technologies play significant conduit roles in advancing the low-carbon transformation of energy consumption structures through green digital finance, with a mutually reinforcing relationship between them. Formal environmental regulations act as positive regulators, influencing the strategic choices of innovation entities in green, low-carbon technology innovation. Green digital finance exhibits heterogeneous effects on the low-carbon transformation of energy consumption structures due to factors such as geographical location, financial regulatory intensity, informal environmental regulations, marketization, and resource endowment. The conclusions of this paper hold substantial significance and practical reference value for China's ongoing efforts to advance the construction of a new energy system and high-quality energy development.

Innovation trends and evolutionary paths of green fuel technologies in maritime field: A global patent review

As global environmental issues become increasingly prominent, the maritime industry faces an urgent imperative to curtail carbon emissions and mitigate environmental impact. Green marine alternative fuels are actively addressing these challenges. Global patent data are collected, and four sub-technologies of green fuel technologies in the maritime field are extracted based on Natural Language Processing. To evaluate the innovation trends and evolutionary paths of these technologies, the Main Path Analysis is employed to identify the evolution path of technologies and the evolution situation of major innovative entities, while the Social Network Analysis was used to present the results visually. These four sub-technologies (Hydrogen & Fuel Cell, Methanol & Ethanol, Ammonia, and LNG & LPG) have occupied the mainstream of fuel technology in maritime over the past five years, with 34.6% of patents, 38.3% of patent citations, and 93.9% of technological influence, accounting for 27.4%, 20.5%, 16.7% and 44.3%, respectively. Ammonia, and Hydrogen & Fuel Cell are springing up like mushrooms after rain, while the development of LNG & LPG, Methanol & Ethanol is relatively mature. Each of these technologies showcases distinct developmental paradigms. We elaborated on developmental paradigms and future research priorities of each technology in the conclusion. In addition, new technological opportunities are also created through the cross-fertilization of technologies. In particular, integrated systems for hydrogen production, storage, and combustion on LNG ships, and maritime hybrid power systems driven by ammonia and hydrogen have opened a new window for the green development of maritime fuels.

Retraction Note: Assessing the efficiency of innovation entities in China: evidence from a nonhomogeneous data envelopment analysis and tobit

Retraction Note: Assessing the efficiency of innovation entities in China: evidence from a nonhomogeneous data envelopment analysis and tobit

Drifting toward Alliance Innovation: Patent Collaboration Relationships and Development in China’s Hydrogen Energy Industry from a Network Perspective

Drifting toward Alliance Innovation: Patent Collaboration Relationships and Development in China’s Hydrogen Energy Industry from a Network Perspective

System Identification of Enterprise Innovation Factor Combinations—A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis Method

High-tech manufacturing enterprises, as innovative entities, are a key focus of national attention. Currently, such enterprises are facing both internal governance pressure and external institutional pressure. Unlike traditional studies that mostly use regression equations, this article uses the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis method to examine how high-tech manufacturing enterprises can coordinate their internal governance mechanisms and external institutional pressures to achieve optimal innovation. This improves the complex mechanism of the multiple factors jointly explaining corporate innovation, and also helps to elucidate the nonlinear relationship between internal governance factors, external institutional factors, and corporate innovation, effectively enriching research methods and results. However, there has not been any research on the issue of enterprise innovation from the perspective of coordinating the two, which urgently needs to be addressed. This article examines how high-tech manufacturing enterprises can reconcile their internal governance mechanisms with external institutional pressures to achieve optimal innovation. The results showed that (1) a single factor cannot constitute the necessary conditions for innovation in high-tech manufacturing enterprises, but executive and shareholder governance have universality in the innovation in high-tech manufacturing enterprises; (2) in the absence of political advantages, high-tech manufacturing enterprises should focus on the coordinated development of internal governance, making board, executive, and shareholder governance the core conditions for innovative development; (3) with political advantages as the main focus and market attention as a supplement, high-tech manufacturing enterprises promote innovative development by combining executive and shareholder governance. This finding indicates a significant substitution effect between government legitimacy and board governance, and confirms that the importance of obtaining government legitimacy for high-tech manufacturing innovation is higher than market legitimacy. This article enriches the research on enterprise innovation by linking internal corporate governance with external institutional pressure, expands the research on the coordination relationship between institutional pressure and corporate governance, and has enlightening significance in revealing the collaborative path for innovation in high-tech manufacturing enterprises.

PRO-INNOVATION ACTIVITIES IN SHAPING THE ORGANIZATIONAL RESILIENCE

This work aims to identify factors/activities that may affect the complexity of ensuring organizational resili-ence, as well as the complexity of the importance of ensuring organizational resilience shaped in innovative organizations; and to assess these phenomena in Polish innovative entities. Theoretical methods have been used in the study, i.e., analysis, synthesis, and query of the scientific literature. Inductive inference, as well as elements of deductive inference, have been used. The empirical CAWI survey technique and statistical analysis of quantitative data have also been used. The study used factor analysis, cluster analysis, the analysis of descriptive statistics, and the Kruskal–Wallis test for inde-pendent samples. Studies have shown that the complexity of ensuring organizational resilience (ICAOR indicator) and the complexity of the importance of ensuring organizational resilience (ICIOR indicator) is moderate. Moreover, there is a relatively small “gap” between respondents’ assessment of the level of implementation of factors and activities and the importance of the same factors/activities in the context of ensuring organizational resilience.

Digital transformation and innovation output of manufacturing companies-An analysis of the mediating role of internal and external transaction costs.

Digital transformation, based on digital technologies, has triggered economic growth in many industries and brought about production and service transformation in the manufacturing sector. As an important source of innovation output and a driving force for national economic development, it is of great significance to study the impact of digital transformation on innovation output in manufacturing companies. This study analyzes the effects of digital transformation on the quality, quantity, and overall innovation output of manufacturing companies from both the macro provincial-level digital transformation and micro enterprise-level digital transformation perspectives. Additionally, using data from manufacturing companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2012 to 2022, this study empirically tests the mechanism through which digital transformation affects innovation output from the perspectives of internal transaction costs and external transaction costs. The results show that digital transformation promotes overall improvement in innovation output of manufacturing companies and leads to improvements in both the quality and quantity of innovation output. Furthermore, the study finds that the effect of digital transformation on innovation output has a nonlinear characteristic under different levels of market competitiveness and market freedom. The mediation analysis reveals that the influence of digital transformation on innovation output can be attributed to the reduction of internal transaction costs and the enhancement of external transaction efficiency. In terms of digital policy formulation, it is necessary to coordinate the development of diverse and innovative digital infrastructure at the macro level with the micro-level ecosystems of enterprises, in order to reduce transaction costs within and outside innovative entities. Ultimately, it is essential for the government to foster a conducive free market environment that enhances transaction efficiency and timely regulates the excessive competition resulting from oligopolistic monopolies, thus maximizing the potential of digital transformation in promoting innovation output.

Policy-induced cooperative knowledge network, university-industry collaboration and firm innovation: Evidence from the Greater Bay Area

The major goal of this paper is to analyze the interactive impact of China's high-tech policies on university-industry (UI) collaboration and firm innovation by a network-based approach. Introducing high-tech policy to traditional innovative networks, we constructed a policy-induced UI collaboration network and applied social network analysis (SNA) method to empirically study the role of high-tech policies and the underlying mechanisms in firm innovation in the Greater Bay Area (GBA). This policy-induced innovative network consists of over 2000 innovative entities in GBA from 2012 to 2021, which reflects dynamic characteristics of innovative activities in this region. Based on this network, we find that high-tech policies play a positive and key role in regional innovation and we also clarify some potential mechanisms and routes in the effect of policies on UI collaboration and firm innovation. This paper advances our understanding of innovative networks and policy-induced regional innovation, which has implications for innovation policymaking in world-class innovative centers.

Territorial resilience on the aftermaths of COVID‐19 crisis—An exploratory analysis on the role of innovation

This study examines the impact of different regional determinants on heterogeneous territorial resilience to the COVID‐19 crisis, highlighting the role of innovation, particularly the engagement of research and innovation (R&I) entities in networks with businesses. Two ordinary least squares (OLS) models were separately estimated for the resistance and the recovery phases, complemented by a multinomial logistic model, applied to test for a nonlinear relationship between R&I networks and territorial resilience. The results are robust concerning the positive influence on municipalities' resistance and recovery of having R&I entities collaborating in innovation consortia. Education, stability, and sectoral diversification of the local labor market are also essential for regions to be able to resist to the crisis but seem not important for recovery. Finally, international trade openness and pre‐crisis labor performance penalizes both resistance and recovery from downturns.

The contribution of enterprises, universities, and research institutes to regional innovation efficiency in China

ABSTRACT This study estimated the contribution of three innovation entities – enterprises, universities, and research institutes – to regional innovation performance and investigated the impact of several exogenous environmental variables on regional innovation efficiency. Stochastic frontier models were employed, and the sample consisted of panel data from 30 provinces and municipalities in China between 2010 and 2021. The results demonstrated that the three innovation entities contributed to regional innovation performance; however, the elastic coefficients of universities and enterprises were higher than those of research institutes, suggesting that China did not shift from a research institute- to enterprise-centered innovation system. The impact of several exogenous environmental variables, such as regional openness, government support, and information infrastructure, on innovation performance varied across regions.

Enterprise Digital Transformation and Regional Green Innovation Efficiency Based on the Perspective of Digital Capability: Evidence from China

Under the dual pressure of economic development and environmental protection, it is urgent that we improve the efficiency of green innovation. Enterprise digital transformation brings opportunities to improve the efficiency of green innovation. However, most current studies focus on the relationship between the two from the micro level, ignoring the impact of enterprise digital transformation on the green innovation of other innovation entities within the region, and have not yet described it in detail from the perspective of digital capabilities. Therefore, based on Chinese data, this paper studies the impact of enterprise digital transformation on regional green innovation efficiency from the perspective of digital capability, and provides a theoretical reference for improving regional green innovation efficiency. The research shows that (1) the digital capabilities of enterprise digital transformation include digital acquisition capability, digital utilization capability, and digital sharing capability, which have significant promoting effects on regional green innovation efficiency; (2) strengthening information resources, knowledge resources, R&D funds, and human resources are the role channels indicated by mechanism analysis; (3) heterogeneity analysis shows that the promotion effect is not related to geographical location, but the disadvantaged areas of enterprise digital transformation and regional green innovation efficiency have a greater impact. Further, the applicability of the research conclusions is extended through case studies in other countries. This study enriches the research perspective of the relationship between enterprise digital transformation and green innovation, and provides a new path for regional sustainable development.

A patent portfolio value analysis based on intuitionistic fuzzy sets: An empirical analysis of artificial intelligence for healthcare

Evaluating patent assets from the perspective of a patent portfolio is an emerging research direction and also a concrete practical example of open innovation theory, which presents the main form of encouraging more innovation entities to participate and further innovate by disclosing technological innovation information. For a better understanding of the patent portfolio value system at the quantitative level, this paper attempts to explore the relationship between the patent portfolio and the open innovation environment of industrial clusters, thus proposing a dynamic patent value evaluation method. Therefore, through focusing on the field of artificial intelligence for healthcare, this paper implements the evaluation process based on collecting relevant patent data and building an intuitionistic fuzzy set evaluation system. The evaluation results provide a value ranking for the patent portfolio, which helps decision-makers to carry out industrial patent layout planning and implement patent licensing strategies orienting to open innovation.

Research on Simulation Technology of Intelligent Manufacturing Scene Operation Mechanism Based on Evolutionary Game Theory

Intelligent manufacturing is a continuously evolving and iteratively improving system engineering that requires long-term adherence and step-by-step implementation. The continuous process changes during scenario iteration have stimulated the demand for process simulation tools in intelligent manufacturing management processes. However, currently, existing tools mostly simulate process coherence and rarely simulate and verify the stability of the process. Accordingly, the article proposes a construction idea for an intelligent manufacturing scenario iteration management platform and combines the analysis of scenario innovation entities and strategies to innovate the simulation method of scenario innovation operation mechanism based on evolutionary game models, improve the comprehensiveness of simulation, and support the continuous iteration of intelligent manufacturing scenarios.

The impact of industrial-university-research collaborations on innovation output in China’s petroleum and petrochemical industry

Abstract To increase the capacity and production of the petroleum and petrochemical industries, it is helpful to investigate the features of industry-university-research collaborative innovation networks. Using the DEA model as a research object, listed companies in China’s petroleum and petrochemical industries are assessed for their innovation output, Moreover, we examined the structural holes in a Co-innovation network between industry and university. We have also assessed the network’s density, the strength of its connections, and the quality of its links. The strength of network relationships was negatively correlated with innovation output, but network density was positively correlated with structural holes. As a result of the research, relevant policy recommendations are made, including actively building industry-university-research collaborative innovation platforms, improving the depth and breadth of collaboration between innovation entities within the industry-university-research network, by connecting industry and universities to collaborate on innovative projects, petroleum and petrochemical companies can better compete.

Review and Comparative Characteristics of Services that Contribute to Information Provision of Innovative Activity

Problem setting. The concept of post -industrial society implies that the economy of modern states should prevail in the innovation sector with high -yielding industry, knowledge industry and high proportion in GDP of high -tech and innovative services. In this approach, information is considered by a separate full -fledged resource, which not only does not infer the traditional material resources, but may also be more important. The development of the economy in the realities of post -industrial society requires the creation of favorable conditions for the activity of competitive innovative enterprises, many of which begin as startups and SMEs. At the same time, such enterprises require significant individual information support and support. In order to understand what support can be calculated by representatives of the domestic innovation sphere, it is advisable to inspect and compare the services that contribute to their information support. One of the varieties of such services is information and communication platforms. Analysis of resent researches and publications. The roles of startups, SMEs and innovative infrastructure in modern society are devoted to many works of employees of the Research Institute of Providing Legal Framework for the Innovative Development, in S. V. Hlibko, D. S. Korytin, I. V. Podrez-Riapolova, M. H. Khaustova et al. Among the domestic scientists involved in the issues of information and communication technologies and systems, it is possible to distinguish K. O. Bezuhla, P. M. Lissov, P. P. Maslianko. Purpose of the research is to carry out inspection and comparison of services that contribute to information support (with emphasis A of information and communication platforms), in order to cover the support of startups, SMEs and other persons who directly and indirectly contribute to the development of the domestic competitive economy. Article’s main body. Scientific work examines and compare services that contribute to information provision of innovation (business activity of innovative subjects). Special emphasis is placed on information and communication platforms, in particular on the development of the Scientific and Research Institute of Providing Legal Framework for the Innovative Development – Smart Law Innovation platform (SLI). The definition and classification of infocommunication systems, which allows you to outline the essence of Smart Law Innovation, is given. The article pays attention to the importance of information for building a modern competitive economy in the postindustrial world. While innovative activity is a prerequisite for the described development, information support is an important condition for the activity of innovative entities. The article emphasizes the importance of information support (information and counseling) of startups and SMEs, which bring a significant share to the innovative development of successful countries, but require special support for launching, developing and avoiding risk. Enterprise Europe Network and its regional centers (on the example of the Polish Center Podlaska Fundacja Rozwoju Regionalnego) are explored to analyze the EU’s positive experience in the field of business. Services provided by the domestic network of business support centers, formed for the financing of the European Union under the EU4Business initiative during 2016-2020, are paying attention to a positive trend to the formation of online online communities providing online services. Services offered by platforms are performed. Attention is paid to powerful positive experiences and powerful sides that can offer outlined services. The final part of the article is devoted to the inspection of the information and communication platform of the Smart Law Innovation and its comparison with the existing concrete proposals outlined above. Conclusions and prospects for the development. The development of innovative enterprises is a prerequisite for building a competitive economy in the post-industrial world. At the same time, information support is an important condition for launching, developing and avoiding risks. The importance of timely information and counseling is especially noticeable for startups and SMEs, which bring a significant share in the innovative development of successful countries. Proper use of electronic technologies and the development of infrastructure capable of assisting innovative entities can significantly contribute to Ukraine’s economic reconstruction. Further analysis of the EU’s positive experience, including Enterprise Europe Network, can be used to increase favorable business conditions in Ukraine. In addition to state support, the article draws attention to private projects that provide information support and counseling, including online services, formed by lawyers and individual consulting projects. One of the projects that provides information support for innovative subjects, researchers and ordinary citizens is the Smart Law Innovation Information and Communication Platform, developed by the Research Institute of Legal Support of Innovative Development of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Although the platform is still under development, the analysis of competitive proposals allows you to see a number of advantages over this development.

Legal Security of State Support of Innovative Activities

Legal Security of State Support of Innovative Activities

How does industrial intelligence affect regional innovation efficiency? Evidence from panel data of China's provinces.

Innovation efficiency is an important manifestation of regional innovation capacity, and how to improve regional innovation efficiency is crucial to regional development. This study empirically explores the impact of industrial intelligence on regional innovation efficiency and the possible influence of approaches and mechanisms. The empirical results revealed the following. First, the development level of industrial intelligence can positively affect regional innovation efficiency, while beyond a certain level, its role in promoting regional innovation efficiency will weaken, exhibiting an inverted U-shaped effect. Second, compared with the application research by enterprises, industrial intelligence plays a stronger role in promoting the innovation efficiency of basic research by scientific research institutes. Third, human capital situation, financial development level, and industrial structure upgrading are three significant channels for industrial intelligence to promote regional innovation efficiency. Therefore, accelerating the development of industrial intelligence, formulating individualized policies for different innovative entities, and rationally allocating resources related to the development of industrial intelligence are needed to be taken to improve regional innovation.