Innovation Management Perspective Research Articles

Research on high-end disruptive innovations - Analysis and insights from the video conferencing systems market

This paper provides a chronological overview of product, service, technology, and business trends related to the videoconferencing systems market from the 1980s to 2022, and analyses and discusses how the product architecture and business models of videoconferencing systems changed over this period. From previous studies related to disruptive innovation, the paper analyzes, discusses, and clarifies that the emergence of cloud videoconferencing services is a “high-end disruptive innovation” - a phenomenon that revolutionized the market for traditional hardware videoconferencing systems and opened and drove not only the existing videoconferencing market but also new markets.The paper then presents new insights into the mechanisms of high-end disruptive innovation, which are different from the “low-end disruption” and “new market disruption” asserted by Christensen, from the perspective of innovation management and strategic management theory, including product architecture, business models, and dynamic capabilities.

From use cases to business cases: I-GReta use cases portfolio analysis from innovation management and digital entrepreneurship models perspectives

This study provides a detailed exploration of how innovation management and digital entrepreneurship models can help transform technical use cases in smart grid contexts into viable business cases, thereby bridging the gap between technical potential and market application in the field of energy informatics. It focuses on the I-GReta project Use Cases (UCs). The study employs methodologies like Use Case Analysis, Portfolio Mapping of Innovation Level, Innovation Readiness Level, and the Tech Solution Business Model Canvas (TSBMC) to analyse and transition from technical use cases to viable business cases. This approach aligns technological solutions with market demands and regulatory frameworks, leveraging digital entrepreneurship models to navigate market challenges and foster energy management, sustainability, and digitalization.

Reconceptualising innovation failure

This study examines the concept of innovation failure. It is a problematic subject without an accepted definition. For different stakeholders the same innovation can be both a success and a failure at the same time. The academic literature has concentrated on the determinants of innovation success. Yet, there is a notable lack of academic literature that deals with innovation failure as a topic in its own right. As a result, there is limited attention to, and little consensus on, the meaning of innovation failure. Existing definitions imply a highly contingent conceptualisation of innovation failure informed by the different theoretical framings and disciplinary interests of the researchers. We adopt a systematic literature review methodology that examines the concept of innovation failure at the level of the firm and from an innovation management perspective. The findings of this review are based on a total of 69 peer-reviewed articles from 1977 to 2021. We find the concept is widely used yet poorly defined and frequently lacks any theoretical underpinning. By means of a theory-building inductive synthesis our findings contribute to research by reconceptualising the concept of innovation failure along three processual dimensions: failure-as-experimentation; −judgement and -event.

Comparative Analysis on the Integration of Strategic Environments in the Retail Sector from the Perspective of Innovation Management

The changes in the consumer profile make more and more retailers incorporate innovative strategies to boost and maintain high performance in the market. With this focus, this work seeks to answer the following research question: Would it be possible to identify which innovations are adopted by the two largest retailers in Brazil in order to enable implementation in small and medium-sized companies? The objective is to comparatively analyze the integration of strategic environments in the retail sector of these two retailers from the perspective of innovation management, specifically to describe the innovations implemented, analyzed and compared from the perspective of Innovation Management and Strategic Management. As a methodology, it was adopted as a strategy to carry out a systematic literature review in order to create a solid scientific theoretical basis and a case study of two retail chains analyzing and comparing the innovations that were implemented. The results showed the importance that retail has for consumers, companies, society and the country's economy and showed an increase in sales through the online system in billing, reduction in operations and diversification in the commercialization of products, contributing to the management of the chain. supply and sustainability.

Health assessment of innovative ecological rainforest in pharmaceutical industry: Case study of Zhejiang, China.

Based on the perspective of ecology and innovation management, this paper selects seven elements from two aspects, innovation subject and innovation environment, to construct the evaluation index system for the health of pharmaceutical innovation ecological rainforest in Zhejiang from 2011 to 2019, together with the entropy weighted TOPSIS method and the obstacle factor diagnosis model. We find that the health of the pharmaceutical industry in Zhejiang can be measured as three stages: stagnation period, recovery period and development period. There is a relative balance between the development of innovation subject and innovation environment. The resilience of innovation subjects, followed by economic and cultural environment, is the key factor hindering the innovation of pharmaceutical industry in Zhejiang. Finally, we propose four countermeasures, including "deploying high-level service chains, broadening investment and financing channels for enterprises, building a reservoir of global talents, and creating an inclusive and open soft environment".

Smart city governance from an innovation management perspective: Theoretical framing, review of current practices, and future research agenda

Smart city transitions are a fast-proliferating example of urban innovation processes, and generating the insight required to support their unfolding should be a key priority for innovation scholars. However, after decades of research, governance mechanisms remain among the most undertheorized and relatively overlooked dimensions of smart city transitions. To address this problem, we conduct a systematic literature review that connects the fragmented knowledge accumulated through the observation of smart city transition dynamics in 6 continents, 43 countries, and 146 cities and regions. Our empirical work is instrumental in achieving a threefold objective. First, we assemble an overarching governance framework that expands the theoretical foundations of smart city transitions from an innovation management perspective. Second, we elaborate on this framework by providing a thorough overview of documented governance practices. This overview highlights the strengths and weaknesses in the current approaches to the governance of smart city transitions, leading to evidence-based strategic recommendations. Third, we identify and address critical knowledge gaps in a future research agenda. In linking innovation theory and urban scholarship, this agenda suggests leveraging promising cross-disciplinary connections to support more intense research efforts probing the interaction patterns between institutional contexts, urban digital innovation, and urban innovation ecosystems.

Towards a Comprehensive Conceptualization of Relational Capabilities: an Innovation Management Perspective

Relational capabilities (RC) draw upon the relational view incorporated into different approaches in competing ways. To provide a clarification of concepts to identify trends, perspectives, and future research opportunities, we conducted a literature review through a bibliometric analysis from 1979 to 2021 publications. Additionally, we highlight the most influential papers that extensively discuss RC and its influences and variations to manage innovation. Findings identify some descriptive insights about publications and the turning point article in the literature that influenced the evolution of RC under the innovation management perspective. RC intertwines into various aspects of innovation management, such as knowledge-based co-creation, learning value, collaborative strategy, innovative ecosystems, strategic management, managing partners, and organizational growth. Therefore, the stream of innovation management leads us to conceptualize RC, highlighting opportunities for further research to solidify RC’s significance. By reviewing and identifying the most influential papers and their authors and systematizing existing knowledge on RC, this research produces theoretical contributions for dynamic capabilities and innovation theory. From a practitioner standpoint, managers likely look at relational resources and strategies towards innovativeness from a new perspective understanding that relational rents exist.

Research on Collaborative Innovation Mode of Enterprise Group from the Perspective of Comprehensive Innovation Management

At present, collaborative innovation has become an integral part of corporate group strategy. However, there are few collaborative innovation research pieces focusing on corporate groups. This article takes Tus-Holdings, a model enterprise in the field of science and technology services, as the research object, uses case study methods, and systematically analyzes the corporate group’s strategy, customers, R&D, management, finance, talent, and other factors from the strategic, business, and support levels under the framework of total innovation management research on the collaborative innovation model of management and the form of cooperative surplus. The research found that the collaborative innovation model is an important support for enterprise groups to build a comprehensive, collaborative innovation system; the internal collaborative innovation model of enterprise groups shows nonlinearity and diversity; collaborative surplus performance is closely related to the collaborative innovation mode, and different collaborative innovation modes will produce a different collaborative surplus. These research results have important theoretical value and practical significance for modern enterprise groups to correctly implement collaborative innovation strategy and improve the efficiency of collaborative innovation.

Understanding open data business models from innovation and knowledge management perspectives

PurposeThis paper aims to analyse the open data business models (ODBMs) as a source of knowledge and innovation to generate economic and social value. A framework for understanding ODBMs is presented. First, the knowledge structure of the ODBMs literature is identified. Second, a conceptual model for analysing the ODBMs is proposed. And finally, the future trends in ODBMs research are discussed.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, co-word analysis is performed to identify the topics related with ODBMs.FindingsThe ODBMs structure of knowledge is articulated in five themes: business model, smart city, business ecosystem, decision-making and innovation. Based on these results, a five-step model for analysing ODBMs is proposed. Finally, a discussion of the future trends of ODBMs focussed on a knowledge management perspective, open data ecosystems and business intelligence is presented.Originality/valueThe paper presents a picture of what, where, for whom and for what ODBMs have been studied and develops a new model to explain the value creation process of ODBMs. Taking a step further, applying the principles and models of knowledge management and business intelligence to ODBMs is also recommended in order to transfer and transform open data into valuable knowledge that can be used for developing apps. In that context, the importance of encouraging collaboration between different agents in the so-called open data ecosystem is presented.

Setting the P-Start for digital entrepreneurship: an idea-to-company process model integrated with innovation management tools

The relevance of Digital Entrepreneurship is increasingly growing, especially in the context of Innovation Ecosystems. However, little attention has been paid to product/service and business levels of analysis, despite the complex managerial and technological skills required in startup generation processes. Based on technology entrepreneurship and innovation management perspectives, we propose the P-Start approach: an idea-to-company process model integrated with innovation m

Impact of Digitalization on Entrepreneurship Development in the Context of Business Innovation Management

The article discusses current digitalization trends from the perspective of business innovation management, the relevance of which has increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The relationship between the innovative and digital profile indicators and the level of entrepreneurship development is analysed and substantiated based on the world and European experience in general and Azerbaijan in particular. The study's main goal is empirical confirmation, formalization, and evaluation of digitalization's impact on entrepreneurship development in Azerbaijan, some European and Asian countries to improve public policy in the areas under study. For achieving the study goals, scientific methods of statistical, analytical, graphical, correlation and regression analysis, and economic and mathematical modelling using Excel and Stata software products were applied. The information base of the study is formed from scientific papers and publications in the field of innovation management, digital economy, and entrepreneurship, as well as World Bank data for a sample of 14 countries in Europe and Asia (Azerbaijan, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Slovak Republic, and Ukraine) for 2006-2020. The author characterized trends in the total number of new firms, the overall density of business and the density of new business in the countries included in the sample, and indicators of the relative cost of procedures and the time to start a business in the studied countries. Particular attention is paid to the export and import of ICT goods, communication and computer services. A panel data regression model with fixed effects has been built to determine the influence of digitalization parameters on the business sector's development parameters. Evaluating the impact of digitalization on entrepreneurship development in Azerbaijan and other European and Asian countries could be useful to scientists, researchers, public authorities and local governments, business structures, and entrepreneurs.

Niche level investment challenges for European Green Deal financing in Europe: lessons from and for the agri-food climate transition

Green New Deal (GND) policies are proposed to tackle the climate emergency. These policies focus on driving climate innovation through unprecedented financial policy levers. However, while the macro-level financing dynamics are clear, the influence of niche level dynamics of sustainable innovation financing remain unexplored within these policy settings. Through the context of the European Green Deal and a focus on the agri-tech start-up sector in the Netherlands, we identify factors likely to reduce the efficacy of these policies from an innovation management perspective—such as project matching issues, socio-ethical factors or the characteristics of agri-food climate innovations. We go on to conceptualise that these challenges represent a range of asymmetries—from classic information asymmetries to less common value and objective asymmetries—between climate innovators and private investors and financers. Many remedies for asymmetries involve costs, likely to further inhibit the efficacy of the European Green Deal and similar policies. A partnering approach is proposed, where the non-financial resources of incumbent actors are harnessed and leveraged to enhance climate innovation performance.

Mapping Value Co-creation Literature in the Technology and Innovation Management Field: A Bibliographic Coupling Analysis.

Value co-creation has become a very important topic in several disciplines. It is observed that value co-creation has been analyzed mainly from a perspective of marketing or services. The interest of studying value co-creation in relation to innovation is growing but there are no previous literature reviews that focus on the literature that studies value co-creation from a technology and innovation management perspective. The present research aims to close this gap. This research has two aims. First, we make a descriptive analysis of the evolution of documents published from 2004 to 2020. We analyze the main journals and identify the most prolific authors. In addition, we observe collaborative behavior at three different levels – country, institution, and author. Second, we determine the content structure of this literature through a bibliographic coupling analysis, and characterize the resulting groups. As a result of this analysis, we describe eleven thematic groups and characterize them through different metrics. Based on these metrics and the previous analysis, we classify and explain the studies about co-creation in the technology and innovation management field. We obtained three research streams: open innovation, consumer-centric analysis, and service ecosystem and service innovation, and two new trends: servitization and the sharing economy.

The impact of corporate governance on social and environmental engagement: what effect on firm performance in the food industry?

PurposeThis paper aims to provide new evidence on firm-specific determinants and effects of corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) in the food industry.Design/methodology/approachThe current study is designed to empirically answer dual related research questions. First, we investigate the extent to which effective corporate governance (CG) mechanisms foster CSER. Second, we analyse the impact of CSER engagement on corporate financial performance (CFP). Consistent with the research design, to avoid sample selection bias, the authors employed Heckman two-step model (1979) to a worldwide sample of 324 food firms between 2011 and 2017.FindingsThe findings of the study reveal that effective board characteristics foster CSER engagement. Furthermore, CSER engagement is a positive predictor of improved profitability and also reduces the cost of debt (COD).Originality/valueThis article has elements of originality regarding the research questions, the context and the method. First, the authors demonstrate that CSER is a “missing link” between CG and CFP in the food industry. The authors’ contribution complements the debate on CSER and CFP through the stakeholder theory, the resource-based view and the innovation management perspective. They disentangle the effect of CG from the impact of social and environmental responsibility after correcting for endogeneity bias. The implications of the study contribute to a win-win scenario for companies investing in CG that result in higher CSER engagement, better profits and lower cost of capital.

Encouraging and enabling action research in innovation management

Although action research offers great advantages of connecting academia and practice, it is surprisingly underutilised in innovation management. This paper, therefore, focuses on how innovation management research and researchers can more effectively and efficiently apply action research to their domain. The analysis commences with the rationale for aligning action research and innovation management before assessing the strengths and limitations of existing interdisciplinary action research approaches from an innovation management perspective. Combining and enhancing the strengths of these approaches, a new Action Innovation Management Research (AIM‐R) framework is developed to assist in resolving the increasing demand for action‐orientation in innovation management. AIM‐R offers a structured research process for systematically applying action research as a way of encouraging rigorous research processes, while also importantly stimulating relevant practical outcomes. AIM‐R specifically considers different change levels (individual, team, organisational) and objects (e.g. outcome, process, capability) critical for the multi‐faceted character of innovation management. A real‐world example towards the end of the article illustrates how AIM‐R has been applied to a complex problem‐solution space. This example adds important insights for readers wanting to apply this more engaged, but currently underutilised, innovation management research technique.

Research on Performance Improvement of Resource and Energy Enterprises Based on the Perspective of Female Executive Compensation Innovation Management

Today, with the rapid development of economy and culture, women have broken through the shackles of “workplace bias” and actively participate in the economic activities of energy-based enterprises. In resource-energy-based enterprises, the effect of female executives on the performance improvement of energy-based enterprises is irreplaceable. Few scholars in resource-energy-based enterprises have focused on the performance improvement of energy-based enterprises by female executives, and there are few studies on the salary and treatment of female executives and the performance of energy-based enterprises. To this end, the thesis takes female executives as the research background, explores the mechanism of female executives’ performance on energy-based enterprises, and promotes the performance of female executives on the performance of energy-based enterprises through innovative compensation management methods. The author uses this research to help resource and energy-based enterprises to develop more suitable programs for women’s executive management and development, and hopes to benefit the development of energy-based enterprises in the industry.

The cathedral’s ivory tower and the open education bazaar – catalyzing innovation in the higher education sector

ABSTRACT Will open education replace traditional higher education, or augment it? Digital innovation in the higher education sector is fuelling speculation about the transformation of higher education and the future role of universities. Much of the speculation makes questionable implicit assumptions about current and future business models in the higher education sector. This conceptual paper applies an innovation management perspective to critically examine the use and misuse of the business model concept in the context of digital innovation in the higher education sector. Using Raymond’s metaphor of the cathedral and the bazaar which contrasted traditional commercial software development (the cathedral) with open source software development (the bazaar). We analogise this relationship with the relationship between ‘cathedral-type’ business models in traditional higher education (e.g. universities) and ‘bazaar-type’ business models in open education (e.g. open educational resource publishers). Using the historical perspective we now have on the software industry’s evolution we critique the ubiquitous replacement narrative of destruction and disruption of the sector, and propose an alternative narrative of interdependence and mutual innovative catalysis. We predict that higher education ecosystems will be based on synergistic relationships between organisations that represent many gradations on the continuum between ‘cathedral-type’ and ‘bazaar-type’ organisations.

Open innovation and the evaluation of internet-enabled public services in smart cities

This article is focused on public service innovation from an innovation management perspective. It presents research experience gained from a European project for managing social and technological innovation in the production and evaluation of citizen-centred internet-enabled services in the public sector. It is based on six urban pilot initiatives, which sought to operationalise a new approach to co-producing and co-evaluating civic services in smart cities – commonly referred to as open innovation for smart city services. Research suggests that the evidence base underpinning this approach is not sufficiently robust to support claims being made about its effectiveness. Instead evaluation research of citizen-centred internet-enabled urban services is in its infancy and there are no tested methods or tools in the literature for supporting this approach. The paper reports on the development and trialing of a novel Co-evaluation Framework, indicators and reporting categories, used to support the co-production of smart city services in an EU-funded project. Our point of departure is that innovation of services is a sub-set of innovation management that requires effective integration of technological with social innovation, supported by the right skills and capacities. The main skills sets needed for effective co-evaluation of open innovation services are the integration of stakeholder management with evaluation capacities.

Shipping innovation orientation and capabilities in the digital era

In our paper, we develop a conceptual model that investigates the innovation orientation, capabilities and practices, in the shipping sector. We examine a number of intertwined shipping management components and innovation management perspectives, considering both the firm-level diversity and sectoral regularities, so as to survey shipping companies' approach to innovation related business activities. We present a set of shipping innovation observations, articulated as hypotheses/propositions, comprising a combined perspective of strategic, organisational, institutional and technological determinant factors of the innovation process. The purpose of this paper is to develop a contemporary framework of innovation in shipping, addressing pertinent managerial and research implications.

Shipping innovation orientation and capabilities in the digital era

In our paper, we develop a conceptual model that investigates the innovation orientation, capabilities and practices, in the shipping sector. We examine a number of intertwined shipping management components and innovation management perspectives, considering both the firm-level diversity and sectoral regularities, so as to survey shipping companies' approach to innovation related business activities. We present a set of shipping innovation observations, articulated as hypotheses/propositions, comprising a combined perspective of strategic, organisational, institutional and technological determinant factors of the innovation process. The purpose of this paper is to develop a contemporary framework of innovation in shipping, addressing pertinent managerial and research implications.