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A journey through time: the story behind ‘eight decades of changes in occupational tasks, computerization and the gender pay gap’ Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Leo Schmallenbach
In this interview article, we embark on a fascinating journey through time alongside the winners of the 2023 DRUID Best Paper Award. DRUID, an annual research conference renowned as the hub of cutt...
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Searching wide or staying close: the relative use of distinct organisational learning types in high and low novelty innovations Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Russell Seidle
Despite the acknowledged importance of organisational learning for new product development, there is a dearth of research into the relative use of distinct learning types as the innovation process ...
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Hampered by creation: the unintended consequences of COVID-19 policies on creative firms Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Louis-Etienne Dubois, Emmanuel Bochud
The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly interrupted operations for many industries, but in particular the live entertainment sector that was effectively forced into a global shutdown. In response, governmen...
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Innovation under constraints: the role of open innovation in Ghana Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Xiaolan Fu, Giacomo Zanello, Carmen Contreras, Xuechen Ding
This paper analyses Low-Income Country (LICs) firms’ use of open innovation (OI) in overcoming various innovation constraints. We disaggregate local and foreign sources of innovation using a new me...
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Open knowledge disclosure and firm value: a signalling theory perspective Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Ziyu Liu, Yushen Du, Enrico Pennings
A growing number of firms are openly disclosing knowledge through academic journals and conferences; however, the impact of this practice on their market value needs further research. From a signal...
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Overcoming the liability of patenting in early-stage ventures with market orientation Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Li-Wei Chen, Miranda J. Welbourne Eleazar, Soo-Hoon Lee, Habib A. Islam
Early-stage ventures often face bounded rationality from a lack of experience as well as limited resources. A strategic choice to patent a firm’s innovations to prevent competitor infringement invo...
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Can we win the “names game”? tactics for large-scale demographic research in entrepreneurship and innovation Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Matt Marx
Scholars of entrepreneurship and innovation are eager to understand the role of demographics: characterising the representation of women and minorities in publishing, patenting, and startups. Yet p...
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Industrial path development in the UK space sector: processes of legitimacy building in the establishment of Space 2.0 Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Chloe A. Billing, John R. Bryson, Anastasios Kitsos
This paper explores the processes behind legitimacy building and its role in new path creation and the path transformation or the ‘de-locking’ of an established industry. We use a mixed-methods app...
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Open social innovation: taking stock and moving forward* Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Thomas Gegenhuber, Johanna Mair
Open forms of organising innovation bear great potential to address societal challenges, such as the climate crisis. Existing approaches to open social innovation (OSI) draw on a corporate and orga...
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Grand innovation challenges: celebrating 30 years of Industry and Innovation with a special issue Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Alessandra Perri, Vera Rocha
Published in Industry and Innovation (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2024)
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Building synthetic worlds: lessons from the excessive infatuation and oversold disillusionment with the metaverse Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Michael G. Jacobides, Francois Candelon, Lisa Krayer, Katie Round, Winson Chen
The metaverse comprises a range of technologies offering shared digital experiences based on immersive virtual worlds or decentralised economies. Brands, Big Tech, and investors made huge investmen...
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Unlocking innovation for net zero: constraints, enablers, and firm-level transition strategies Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Jonatan Pinkse, Pelin Demirel, Alba Marino
Transition pathways for net zero encompass seemingly insurmountable innovation challenges for the scaling of less mature technological solutions such as hydrogen, materials substitution, and electr...
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On the resilience of innovation systems Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Adriaan van der Loos, Koen Frenken, Marko Hekkert, Simona Negro
Mission-oriented innovation policies address urgent societal challenges, often through rapid technological upscaling. However, upscaling may endanger the resilience of an innovation system by limit...
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Corporation–start-up collaboration: how can the tensions stemming from asymmetries be managed? Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Charlotte Chappert, Anne-Sophie Fernandez, Antoine Pierre
Corporation-start-up collaboration (CSC) generates strategic and managerial challenges. Building on resource dependence theory (RDT), this study examines these challenges through the lenses of asym...
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Correction Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-12-23
Published in Industry and Innovation (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Helping start-ups and public organisations to align: Co-producing the co-creation context in a public hospital Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Margaux Manent, Patrick Cohendet, Laurent Simon
Incubation facilitates innovation performance and knowledge production for large organisations, while allowing start-ups to connect with potential users who hold valuable information. However, alig...
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Randomisation as a tool for organisational decision-making: a debatable or debilitating proposition? Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Gary Dushnitsky, J.P. Eggers, Chiara Franzoni, Florenta Teodoridis
The role of experts has been called into question recently. Scholarly works debate whether expert judgement is given excessive reliance on innovation, science, and entrepreneurial decision-making. ...
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Behind the scenes of “Peripheral visions: the film and television industry in Galway, Ireland” Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Gianluca Biggi
In commemoration of its 30th anniversary, Industry and Innovation renewed the tradition of awarding a ‘Best Paper Prize.’ This prize aims to honour the best article published in the journal each ye...
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When opposites attract: a review and synthesis of corporate-startup collaboration Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Ajlin Dizdarevic, Vareska van de Vrande, Justin Jansen
Research on corporate-startup coll aboration has accelerated during the last two decades, and scholars have started to distinguish underlying drivers and challenges when these two types of partners...
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Innovation dynamics in the age of artificial intelligence: introduction to the special issue Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Jacob R. Holm, Daniel S. Hain, Roman Jurowetzki, Edward Lorenz
In this paper, we discuss the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on innovation dynamics and argue that AI has affected innovation dynamics in at least two distinct ways. First, innovation using...
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R&D subsidy and corporate innovation: an integrated view of resource allocation and resource utilisation Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Yeyao Ren, Wenhong Zhao, Liang Zhang, Tianyu Hou
This study develops an integrated framework taking both resource allocation and utilisation into account to argue that R&D subsidy effectiveness depends on both the way subsidy is allocated by gove...
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The impact of the EU General data protection regulation on product innovation Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Knut Blind, Crispin Niebel, Christian Rammer
In May 2018, a new regulation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), on data protection came in the European Union into force. It requires firms to update their data protection strategy an...
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The emergence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem: the interplay between early entrepreneurial activity and public policy in the Korean online gaming industry Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Steven Casper, Marcela Miozzo, Cornelia Storz
As drivers of economic growth, entrepreneurial ecosystems are an important focus of research. We propose a new theoretical perspective, in which the formation of entrepreneurial ecosystems can be t...
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Pay incentives, intangibles, and gender wage inequality Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Cristiano Perugini, Fabrizio Pompei
This research focuses on the effects of incentive pay schemes (IPSs) on the within-establishment gender wage gap and explores whether the intensity of intangible capital at the industry level moder...
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Introduction to the special issue on “the twin (digital and green) transition: handling the economic and social challenges” Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Bram Timmermans, Dario Diodato, Elena Huergo, Francesco Rentocchini, Pietro Moncada-Paternò-Castello
In an era of increasing global challenges, two paradigmatic shifts – the digital and green transitions – have gained traction due to their potential impacts on industrial ecosystems and societal in...
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How do changing institutional logics affect innovation? The cases of Online Electric Vehicle and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle in Korea Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Dongin Kang, Jae-Yong Choung
Published in Industry and Innovation (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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What drives project success in online labour markets? A bilateral perspective on freelancers and clients Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Mareike Seifried, Tobias Kretschmer, Pooyan Khashabi, Jörg Claussen
Despite some advantages over traditional (offline) labour markets – such as lower search costs, better matching and improved monitoring – online labour markets (OLMs) have not taken off as initiall...
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An emergent grounded theory of AI-driven digital transformation: Canadian SMEs’ perspectives Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Amir Taherizadeh, Catherine Beaudry
Artificial intelligence (AI) empowers traditional firms to transform into Industry 4.0, enabling them to compete in an era of rapid technological advancements. However, AI adoption remains limited ...
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Founder Personality and Start-up Subsidies Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Gary Chapman, Hanna Hottenrott
Start-up subsidies play an important role in supporting start-up innovation and performance. However, what characteristics help and hinder start-ups to seek public subsidies remains unclear. We stu...
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Productivity and HGEs: resilience and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Mercedes Teruel, Sofia Amaral-Garcia, Peter Bauer, Alex Coad, Clemens Domnick, Peter Harasztosi, Rozália Pál
The impact of crises on firm performance has been studied widely. This paper explores the relationship between firms’ reaction to COVID-19 (in employment) and the adoption of digital technologies, ...
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On the road to regional ‘Competitive Environmental Sustainability’: the role of the European structural funds Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Anabela Santos, Javier Barbero, Simone Salotti, Olga Diukanova, Dimitrios Pontikakis
We construct a novel indicator of regional competitive sustainability based on the movements over time of employment sectoral shares across all the regions of the European Union. The indicator acco...
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Crisis-induced innovation and crisis-induced innovators Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Lasse Lien, Bram Timmermans
The literature on the persistence of innovation focuses on whether firms reduce, increase, or maintain their innovation activity over time, and in particular through cyclical downturns and crisis p...
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Knowing brown and inventing green? Incremental and radical innovative activities in the automotive sector Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Julia Mazzei, Tommaso Rughi, Maria Enrica Virgillito
ABSTRACT The development of low emission vehicles (LEVs) represents a typical case of technological competition between two green trajectories. On the one hand, the incremental trajectory aims at improving the efficiency of the dominant design, greening the internal combustion engine (ICEG). On the other hand, the radical trajectory targets the progress of hybrid, electric and fuel cell vehicles (HEF)
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Advanced digitalisation and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: firm-level evidence from developing and emerging economies Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Elisa Calza, Alejandro Lavopa, Ligia Zagato
Advanced digital production technologies – often clustered under the label of ‘Industry 4.0’– are reshaping industrial production. Using novel firm-level data collected by UNIDO this paper investig...
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Venture Capital Financing and Green Patenting Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Andrea Bellucci, Serena Fatica, Aliki Georgakaki, Gianluca Gucciardi, Simon Letout, Francesco Pasimeni
This paper explores the role of green innovation in attracting venture capital (VC) financing. We use a unique dataset that matches information on equity transactions, companies’ balance sheet vari...
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Open innovation during the 2008 financial crisis Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Konstantinos Trantopoulos, Martin Woerter, Georg von Krogh
We examine how firms adjusted their open innovation strategy in response to the 2008 global financial crisis. While previous research has analysed the advantages, drawbacks, and methods of open inn...
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E-skills and income inequality within European regions Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Davide Consoli, Fulvio Castellacci, Artur Santoalha
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the relationship between digital skills of the workforce and income inequalities within regions. By combining three databases – EU-LFS, EU-SILC and ESCO – the analysis studies the relationships between digital skills and income inequalities for an unbalanced panel of 103 European regions for the period 2003–13. The results show that the relationship between digital
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Imitation or innovation? New ventures’ NPD strategies in emerging markets Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Jinxin Liu, Xiangyu Yang, Shibin Sheng
New product development (NPD) plays a pivotal role in the survival, growth, and performance of new ventures; existing studies, however, have paid scant attention to new ventures’ trade-offs between...
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Set skilled workers free: the mobility of workers and innovation in Brazil Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-06-03 Ariana Ribeiro Costa, Renato Garcia, José Eduardo Roselino, José César Cruz Júnior
Skilled workers mobility is an important means by which knowledge can be transferred across regions, leading to positive effects on innovation and interactive learning. In this paper, we aim to ana...
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Digital technologies and eco-innovation. Evidence of the twin transition from Italian firms Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Sandro Montresor, Antonio Vezzani
This paper investigates how the twin transition (digital & green) unfolds within firms by relating investments in digital technologies to the propensity of eco-innovating production processes and m...
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Patent assertion entities and follow-on innovation. Evidence from patent acquisitions at the USPTO Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Gianluca Orsatti, Valerio Sterzi
ABSTRACT Patent monetisation is an important source of revenues worldwide. This activity is increasingly carried out by patent assertion entities (PAE), which are at the origin of about 40% of infringement actions filed in the United States. This paper uses an original database of US patents reporting PAE patent acquisitions. We document two key empirical facts about the presence of PAEs in the market
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Opening the black box of artificial intelligence technologies: unveiling the influence exerted by type of organisations and collaborative dynamics Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, Gianluca Murgia, Adele Parmentola
Until now, the management literature on Artificial Intelligence (AI) focuses mostly on the diverse applications of this technology, while its development has attracted only limited attention. To pa...
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Managing start-up – incumbent digital solution co-creation: a four-phase process for intermediation in innovative contexts Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Patricia Carolina Garcia Martin, David Sjödin, Sujith Nair, Vinit Parida
ABSTRACT As incumbents strive to collaborate with start-ups in the pursuit of cutting-edge digital solutions, the complexities posed by disparate partners and their innovative endeavours often lead to intricate tensions. Our research underscores the critical role of innovation intermediaries in enabling a successful digital co-creation, yet a deeper understanding of this novel and evolving context
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Overcoming innovation barriers through collaboration in emerging countries: the case of Colombian manufacturing firms Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Juan Carlos Salazar-Elena, Yury Yohana Castillo, Isabel Álvarez
ABSTRACT There has been a growing interest in open innovation strategy as a mechanism to face obstacles in innovative projects in the last three decades. These studies reveal that companies perceiving knowledge and skill shortages prioritise collaboration with universities and public research institutions rather than with other partners. However, most studies addressing the link between collaboration
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Artefacts, routines, and co-production: a pioneering case of artificial intelligence-based health services in Argentina Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Leandro Lepratte, Gabriel Yoguel
The article presents innovation in artificial intelligence (AI)-based health services as a co-production process between actors and digital artefacts that increase automation and augmentative routi...
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Employment externalisation in response to a temporary exogenous shock: an adjustment costs perspective Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Jonathan D. Jensen, Rahul Anand, Nicolai J. Foss
We examine the externalisation of labour as a strategic response to a temporary exogenous shock (i.e. COVID-19). Combining ideas from employment externalisation theory and the CATO framework (which...
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Intellectual property crises induced by incumbent firms and latecomer firms’ catch-up performance: evidence from different sectoral environments Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Haoyu Zhang, Jean Jinghan Chen, Kiho Kwak, Xiaobo Wu
Why and how do incumbent firms (IFs) induce crises for latecomer firms? How do latecomer firms (LCFs) manage the crises, and how does crisis management affect LCFs’ catch-up? To answer these questi...
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Platform participants hedging risk: post-alliance technology search of a platform participant and a rival platform Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Hyun Ju Jung
ABSTRACT Using Oracle’s enterprise software platform ecosystem, we demonstrate how the platform players involved in or affected by alliances adjust their post-alliance technology search behaviours to address potential competitive challenges. While both platform owners and platform participants increase searches for each other’s technology after the formation of a technology alliance, we find that the
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Corporate Venture Capital and Startup Outcomes: The Roles of Investment Timing and Multiple Corporate Investors Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Francesco Di Lorenzo, Christopher Albert Sabel
ABSTRACT The effects of corporate venture capital (CVC) investments on ventures’ revenues and innovation-related outcomes depend on the characteristics of the investors and on the dynamics of the investment process. Recently, venture financing literature has highlighted the importance of investment timing as a driver for investee ventures development and success. Building on the literatures on complementary
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Scenarios of technological progress in Italy: what can we expect? Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Jacopo Zotti, Claudio Socci, Francesca Severini, Giancarlo Infantino
The simple but deep sense of technological progress (TP) lies in the possibility of improving human life. The immediate question thereafter is clearly about the distribution of the gains from TP. W...
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Learning by exporting for marketing innovation Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Elena Golovko, Cindy Lopes-Bento, Wolfgang Sofka
ABSTRACT Exporting provides important learning opportunities for firms. Learning by exporting literature has primarily focused on general performance outcomes of learning such as productivity or technological innovation outcomes such as patents or product innovation. We use learning mechanisms from this literature and develop arguments for marketing innovation outcomes of learning by exporting. We
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Getting along with frenemies: enhancing multi-competitor coopetition governance through artificial intelligence and blockchain Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Jennifer L. Woolley
Collaborating with one competitor is difficult but collaborating with several competitors is a monumental challenge. However, multi-competitor coopetition, or cooperation between multiple competito...
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Attractiveness, ethnicity, and stage financing: exploring heuristics in venture capital staging Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Marc D. Bahlmann
ABSTRACT Understanding heuristics in stage financing is imperative, given the consequences of staging for both new venture entrepreneurs and VC investors. This study documents how entrepreneurs’ physical attractiveness affects VCs’ staging intensity during the early stages of the funding process, while taking into account the ethnic constellation of a given VC – entrepreneur dyad. Using a dataset for
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Firms and innovation in the new industrial paradigm of the digital transformation Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Elena Cefis, Riccardo Leoncini, Luigi Marengo, Sandro Montresor
ABSTRACT The unfolding of the digital transformation, often associated with the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, has been attracting increasing attention in diverse academic disciplines. The related research has already populated several special issues that represent important guideposts for future studies on the topic. However, a paper collection with an ‘Industry and Innovation’ perspective
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Directionality challenges for transformative innovation policy: lessons from implementing climate goals in the process industry Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Anna Bergek, Hans Hellsmark, Kersti Karltorp
In the new paradigm of ‘transformative’ or ‘mission-oriented’ innovation policy, which addresses broad societal challenges, policy makers are given a large responsibility for setting or shaping the...
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Digital Transformation of the Automotive Industry: An Integrating Framework to Analyse Technological Novelty and Breadth Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Henry Lopez-Vega, Jerker Moodysson
ABSTRACT Research demonstrates that digital technologies stimulate industrial transformation by enabling new interdependencies with firms outside and across firm and industry boundaries. However, we know little about the degree of novelty and breadth of digital technologies that have the potential to transform industries. Understanding the degree of novelty (spanning from radical to incremental) and
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Robots, skills and temporary jobs: evidence from six European countries Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Mirella Damiani, Fabrizio Pompei, Alfred Kleinknecht
In our analysis of the impact of robot adoption on the use of flexible contracts in six European countries, we find that control for the type of innovation model that is dominant in an industry is ...
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International breadth in coopetition and innovation performance: evidence from the Spanish biotechnology industry Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2022-12-17 Vanesa Barrales-Molina, Leopoldo Gutierrez-Gutierrez, Marta Riquelme-Medina
ABSTRACT Collaboration with competitors – coopetition – enables access to valuable knowledge and resources for innovation and is seen as common practice in some knowledge-intensive sectors. Using longitudinal data from the Spanish biotechnology sector (a total of 1605 observations), this study examines the relationship between the international breadth of coopetition – the sum of the different international
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The dominant cybersecurity industry clusters: evolution and sustainment Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Erran Carmel, Edward M. Roche
ABSTRACT Three mega-clusters dominate the cybersecurity industry: the San Francisco Bay Area, the Washington D.C. area and Israel. Together they are home to about half the influential cybersecurity firms; they have remained dominant since industry take-off in the 1990s. How have they remained dominant? We answer this question by synthesizing firm-level data, case studies, and interviews, compiling
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Doors and walls: physical barriers and knowledge sharing Ind. Innovat. (IF 3.819) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Agnieszka Nowinska, Torben Pedersen
ABSTRACT The extant literature has demonstrated that physical distance negatively affects knowledge sharing, even within the same building. Moreover, the impact of physical barriers, such as doors and walls, has been flagged as an important avenue for research. We contribute to the micro-geography literature by unpacking the effects of physical barriers on knowledge sharing and moderators of that relationship