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An Overview of Innovation
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The process of innovation must be viewed as a series of changes in a complete system not only of hardware, but also of market environment, production facilities and knowledge, and the social contexts of the innovation organization as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
Models that depict innovation as a smooth, well-behaved linear process badly misspecify the nature and direction of the causal factors at work. Innovation is complex, uncertain, somewhat disorderly, and subject to changes of many sorts. Innovation is also difficult to measure and demands close coordination of adequate technical knowledge and excellent market judgment in order to satisfy economic, technological, and other types of constraints—all simultaneously. The process of innovation must be viewed as a series of changes in a complete system not only of hardware, but also of market environment, production facilities and knowledge, and the social contexts of the innovation organization.read more
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Competition between first and second generation technologies: Lessons from the formation of a biofuels innovation system in the Netherlands
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take the historical development of biofuels in the Netherlands as the topic of study and apply a Technological Innovation System perspective to analyse the strategies followed and their effects.
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The Brazilian sugarcane innovation system
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the key aspects of the innovation system built around the Brazilian sugarcane industry, based on the national innovation systems approach according to which innovation results from the interaction of different institutional actors.
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Exploring the Multiple Roles of Lund University in Strengthening Scania's Regional Innovation System: Towards Institutional Learning?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider how various forms of technological learning intersecting within Lund University around three distinct sectoral engagement efforts have been built up and how this created new structural regional innovation capacity.
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Combining Knowledge from Different Sources, Channels and Geographical Scales
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how innovative firms combine knowledge provided by different sources, accessed at different spatial scales and acquired through different channels, and conclude that it is, indeed, combinations of knowledge sourced from different partners located at different scales and acquiring through different channel that are relevant.
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The spatial organisation of innovation: open innovation, external knowledge relations and urban structure
Peter Teirlinck,André Spithoven +1 more
TL;DR: Teirlinck et al. as discussed by the authors argue that both the organization of innovation as well as the use of external knowledge depends on the physical, socio-economic and cultural environment, and the outcome of the analysis supports the idea that (open) innovation is spatially organized.
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National Innovation Systems: Analytical Concept and Development Tool
TL;DR: In this article, a core of the innovation system is defined and it is illustrated that it is necessary both to understand micro-behaviour in the core and understand the wider setting within which the core operates.
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Leveraging External Sources of Innovation: A Review of Research on Open Innovation
TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of prior research on how firms leverage external sources of innovation is presented, which suggests a four-phase model in which a linear process of obtaining, integrating, integrating and commercializing external innovations is combined with interaction between the firm and its collaborators.
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University–industry relationships and open innovation: Towards a research agenda
Markus Perkmann,Kathryn Walsh +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the diffusion and characteristics of collaborative relationships between universities and industry are explored, and a research agenda informed by an open innovation perspective is developed. But the authors focus on the effects of university-industry links on innovation-specific variables, such as patents or firm innovativeness, and the dynamics of these relationships remain under-researched.
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'Mode 3' and 'Quadruple Helix': toward a 21st century fractal innovation ecosystem
TL;DR: The 'Quadruple Helix' emphasises the importance of also integrating the perspective of the media-based and culture-based public, and results is an emerging fractal knowledge and innovation ecosystem, well-configured for the knowledge economy and society.
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The importance of diverse collaborative networks for the novelty of product innovation
María J. Nieto,Lluís Santamaría +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the role of different types of collaborative networks in achieving product innovations and their degree of novelty was theoretically and empirically analyzed, using data from a longitudinal sample of Spanish manufacturing firms.