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This article analyzes the impact of revealed barriers - those challenges faced by firms during their innovation endeavors - on the firms' innovation outcomes. The central hypothesis of this study proposes that this impact varies depending on the level of novelty associated with the innovation developed. To accomplish this objective, probit regression models are employed using data sourced from the Sixth Survey of Innovation and Technological Development in the Service and Commerce Sectors (EDITS VI) conducted by the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) of Colombia for the period 2016-2017. The obtained results demonstrate that innovation barriers exert distinct impacts on the attainment of innovations of varying degrees of novelty (radical innovation versus incremental innovation). Based on these findings, the discussion delves into recommendations for policy design and managerial implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• We reinterpreted Hall and Soskice, 2001 by adopting State-permeated capitalism. • A model with factor of state influence in the market for innovation is proposed. • Econometric analysis with continuous factors in an expanded framework is suggested. • We identify which factors of VoC affect innovation and to what extent they do so. • Empirical results in Hall and Soskice, 2001 are reexamined based on the recent data. Hall and Soskice's (2001) Varieties of Capitalism provides a background for explaining institutional benefits for specific types of innovation. Extensive research has been conducted to verify their claims, but controversy remains because the criteria of radical innovation are ambiguous. In this study, the numerous indicators for radical innovation presented in previous research are comprehensively verified. In addition, the expanded framework, including the concept of state capitalism, is used to reflect real-world economic circumstances in which state involvement in the market drives economic growth and innovation. By expressing the components that serve as the basis for clusters of market economy types as continuous variables, we identified which factors affect innovation and to what extent they do so. The results of a patent analysis support Hall and Soskice's (2001) claims, while those based on a trade analysis show conflicting results. A trade-off exists between state involvement in the market and innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Radical innovation is crucial for continuous improvement in energy efficiency. This paper explores the backward driving effect of downstream customers on upstream suppliers' radical innovation from the perspective of supply chain vertical linkages. Using supply chain data from Chinese listed companies, this paper examines the impact of downstream customers' energy efficiency retrofits on upstream suppliers' radical innovation. We find that: (1) Downstream customers' energy efficiency retrofits significantly promote upstream suppliers' radical innovation, while suppliers' energy efficiency retrofits have a crowding-out effect on their radical innovation. (2) Heterogeneity analysis reveals that the backward driving effect of downstream customers on upstream suppliers' radical innovation is more pronounced in supply chains where the supplier has strong market influence and the customer has weak market influence. (3) The effect in the supply chain is only effective for radical innovation, with insignificant impact on incremental innovation and no green innovation bias. The findings provide a new perspective and empirical reference for actively cultivating radical innovation capabilities and deeply understanding the pathways to improving energy efficiency. • The driving effect of energy efficiency retrofits in the supply chain is explored. • Customers' energy efficiency retrofits promote suppliers' radical innovation. • The driving effect is ineffective for incremental innovation and no green bias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To address the challenges of energy transition necessary for sustainable development, incumbents must implement innovations, some of which are radical compared with their current competence-base or market solutions. This requires a thorough understanding of the prerequisites for implementing innovation. The literature on the factors influencing incumbents' implementation is vast and dispersed across multiple fields, with sometimes contradictory findings. As a result, it is difficult to get a clear picture what influences innovation implementation. This study explores the factors that condition the propensity of incumbent firms to implement radical innovations relevant to the energy transition and examines how these factors influence. A systematic literature review was conducted, covering 43 articles. The study identifies and explains the influence of 20 such factors on implementation. Nine factors are firm-external and relate to the themes of socioeconomic-political pressure, innovation conditions and industry conditions. Eleven factors are firm-internal and relate the themes of organisational properties, absorptive capacity, and internal alignment with the innovation. Causal relationships between these internal and external factors were discovered, as well as complementary influences on implementation. Potential future research venues are proposed, including scarcely recognized factors that merit further attention, factor complementarity and interdependency, and empirical gaps in terms of geographic context. It also offers policy and management implications, concluding that to gain a thorough understanding of the prerequisites for implementation, it is necessary to simultaneously consider a wide range of factors and their interconnectedness. [Display omitted] • Innovation implementation by energy incumbents is conditioned by various factors. • 9 firm-external and 11 firm-internal factors are identified through a review. • External factors: socioeconomic-political, innovation, and industry conditions. • Internal factors: organizational properties, absorptive capacity, and alignment. • Complex interdependence between internal and external factors is identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Biopharmaceutical companies today view R&D innovation as crucial for gaining a competitive edge. Consequently, achieving radical innovation in biotechnology has become a major concern. While researchers have identified various drivers of radical innovation within firms, they often overlook the significant role that heterogeneous resources in network alliances play. This study addresses this gap by examining industry association embeddedness through the lens of social networking. Focusing on China's listed pharmaceutical manufacturing companies from Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share markets between 2007 and 2021, we find a positive relationship between industry-association embeddedness and radical innovation. Our findings indicate that this positive effect is significantly enhanced by firms' absorptive capacity. Moreover, increased digital investment further strengthens the effect of absorptive capacity on the relationship between industry-association embeddedness and radical innovation. This study offers theoretical insights into the role of intermediary bodies, such as industry associations, in fostering radical innovation. It also provides valuable lessons for biopharmaceutical companies in transitioning economies seeking to explore innovative pathways. • It provides the critical role of heterogeneous resources embedded in network alliances. • It attempts to fill the aforementioned research gap by introducing industry association embeddedness. • It provides the theoretical support for objectively evaluating the effects of intermediary bodies. • It offers lessons for the exploration of innovation pathways for biopharmaceutical enterprises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The automotive industry is the world's largest manufacturing activity, characterized by complex production processes and some energy-intense processes which use a significant quantity of raw materials. The production processes responsible for the highest energy end-use take place in the paint shop. Depending on the type of paint-shop processes, the energy use can account for up to 75 % of the plant's total energy end-use. This study aims to contribute to an enhanced understanding of the complexity of adopting decarbonization measures and to provide support for planning and decision-making in practice. By adopting a bottom-up perspective, a longitudinal case study was conducted on a state-of-the-art automotive paint-shop between November 2019 and March 2023. To achieve the study's aim, a bottom-up methodology was developed comprising several steps: i) analysis of decarbonization measures, ii) mapping of process energy use and CO 2 emissions, and iii) economic analysis. The data-based methodology is flexible and can be applied in different automotive paint-shops. Main findings show that i) incremental energy efficiency measures have the fastest adoption level, with relatively high savings potential, and most of these are cost effective; ii) radical process innovation measures have a higher savings potential, but long-term adoption levels due to the radical innovations required in the supply chain, and the highly specialized knowledge needed in the pre-treatment process; and iii) the primary drivers for implementing the measures are to achieve the climate targets and establish a leading position in the sector, rather than focusing primarily on the cost-effectiveness of the measures. [Display omitted] • Allocation of energy use and CO 2 emissions per processes supports decision-making. • CSCs and MACCs enables development of strategies and pathways for decarbonization. • Incremental energy efficiency measures are cost-effective with high energy savings. • Radical process innovation demands supply chain innovation and process knowledge. • Achieving climate goals is one of the main drivers for Paint Shop decarbonization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Innovation managers constantly seek to improve manufacturing systems using continuous improvement as a core process. On the other hand, significant technological advances promise to improve manufacturing systems' performance radically. Therefore, manufacturing units must be able to deal with complex and volatile environments and at the same time act explorative and exploitative to produce both incremental and radical innovations. The organizational ability to achieve this balanced target state is called ambidexterity. The challenge of continuously increasing efficiency while at the same time developing and integrating radical innovation into the manufacturing system has grown enormously in recent years. Consequently, a severe challenge is imposed on the innovation management of the manufacturing unit. This implies ambidexterity management in manufacturing, encouraging organizational research to identify relevant design dimensions and describe concrete managerial implementation measures in a manufacturing context. Therefore, this paper presents an approach to enable ambidextrous innovation management in manufacturing, fostering radical innovation. Relevant organizational dimensions and their interconnections are identified using scientific literature and expert interviews. In addition, examples of concrete managerial implications for implementing ambidexterity in manufacturing are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study is to compare the effect of strategic entrepreneurship through different innovation approach between two leading digital multi-sided platform (MSP) e-commerce startups, Bukalapak, that use incremental innovation approach, and Shopee that use radical innovation approach to face the business challenge during Covid-19 pandemic. Using structural equation modeling (SEM) with the partial least squares method, the researchers use an extended expectation confirmation model (ECM) from a customer point of view to analyze the effect of the innovation efforts. A questionnaire was distributed to people who purchased a Bukalapak or Shopee online shopping application during the covid pandemic with the purposive sampling method. Finally, the analysis was performed with a total of 300 samples from Bukalapak and Shopee users. The results show that confirmation positively impacts perceived enjoyment, satisfaction, and customer engagement in both Bukalapak and Shopee cases. The results also show that perceived enjoyment and satisfaction engagement positively impact continuance intention as the manifestation of innovation. However, in the Bukalapak case that performs incremental innovation, the customer engagement is insignificant on continuance intention, while it is significant in the Shopee case that performs radical innovation. This study suggests enabling the customers to engage more in an e-commerce platform through a radical innovation approach by providing services beyond e-commerce scope (ex: mini-game, gamification activities, etc.) will likely lead to favorable responses and lasting relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper empirically examines how sustainability-oriented social responsibility influences corporate innovation quantity and radical innovation from the perspectives of environment- and employee-oriented social responsibility. Both forms of social responsibility are found to contribute significantly to corporate innovation. Corporate environment-oriented responsibility increases innovation by increasing R&D. Employee-oriented responsibility increases innovation by helping firms retain talent; by motivating employees, employee-oriented social responsibility promotes both innovation quantity and radical innovation. Furthermore, both environment- and employee-oriented responsibility can alleviate financing constraints, and the positive effects of environment- and employee-oriented responsibility on radical innovation and innovation quantity, respectively, increase total factor productivity. Following sustainable development theory, this paper analyzes the heterogeneous mechanisms of the influences of environment- and employee-oriented social responsibility on corporate innovation and provides empirical evidence of high-quality, innovation-driven corporate development through social responsibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering the universal competitive pressures, it is imperative for the organizations to be more dynamic and innovative. The viability of companies is dependent on innovation and organizational culture is regarded as an important component in realizing the objective of product innovation. The study examines the association between ambidextrous organizational culture and product innovation outcomes through mediation of contextual ambidexterity. By pursuing the snowball sampling technique, pre-established structural questionnaires were distributed among the top management of IT and Telecom sector, 125 valid questionnaires were considered for data analysis purpose. The collected data was analyzed using Smart PLS software and measurement model was assessed with respect to reliability and validity. Structural model was assessed for hypothesis testing using bootstrapping technique. Results indicated that organizational diversity significantly and positively affect new product innovation outcomes i.e., incremental, radical product innovation, and speed to market, whereas shared vision positively affect incremental product innovation. Indirect effects results indicated that significant positive partial mediation of contextual ambidexterity exists between organizational diversity and new product innovation outcomes, i.e., radical innovation and speed to market. Whereas full and significant positive mediation role of contextual ambidexterity exists between shared vision and new product innovation outcomes i.e., radical innovation outcomes and speed to market. At last, no significant mediation role of contextual ambidexterity exists between organizational diversity and incremental innovation outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digtalization is leading to wide-ranging changes for the economy and is considered as one of the main drivers of innovation. Ever-shorter innovation cycles, high volatility and increased cost pressure are just some of the effects that companies have to face as a result of digitalization. In order to remain competitive in the long term, companies not only have to continuously develop existing products and services, but also exploit the innovation potential of new technologies. This poses new challenges for innovation management, since the company must work on the development of radical or even disruptive innovations in addition to the popular development of incremental innovations. The simultaneous promotion of incremental and radical innovations is also known as ambidexterity. The development of incremental innovations has been established for years in most companies. However, many companies do not have the required know-how about the development of radical innovations and the realization of ambidexterity. One important step on the way to an ambidextrous innovation management is the analysis of the initial situation in the company. Often there is uncertainty about which areas and tasks have to be considered and should be designed in the sense of ambidexterity. Therefore, this paper develops a maturity model for an ambidextrous innovation management. For this purpose, a systematic literature analysis of existing maturity models in innovation management will be conducted and its understanding of innovation will be compared. Since most maturity models do not explicitly differentiate between radical innovations or primarily consider incremental innovations, requirements for the innovation management of radical innovations and ambidexterity were derived in the course of a further systematic literature analysis. Based on this database, a maturity model for an ambidextrous innovation management could be derived, which is subdivided into 26 tasks with 5 different levels each. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Failure is neglected in transitions scholarship. • Four core biases can explain this relative neglect. • Nine relevant perspectives offer possible building blocks. • Three families of perspectives are distinguished. • Four suggestions for research and governance emerge. In this paper, we offer a comprehensive and interdisciplinary review of 'failure' in transitions research. What is meant by failure, and is the community biased against it? How is failure explained through different perspectives? How can failures be addressed more appropriately in transitions studies? We synthesize a large body of evidence spanning transitions studies, innovation studies, science and technology studies, organisation and management studies, policy studies and the history of technology to probe and sharpen these questions. We examine within these literatures the instances and possibilities of success with transitions and discuss why this may be problematic, organising our analysis around four types of bias (selection, cognitive, interpretive, and prescription). In addition, we review three 'families' of framings of failure put forward in and around the socio-technical transitions literature, notably discrete failure events, systemic failings and processual accounts of failure, and discuss how they can be constructively put to work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• The significance of radical innovations for sustainability is elucidated from the perspective of diverse discourses. • Grassroots innovation (GI) as a radical innovation paradigm with unconventional agents, goals and practices. • A research gap in the systematic analysis and assessment of the sustainability of GIs persists. • A meta-theoretical framework for assessing the sustainability of radical innovation and GI is proposed. • It integrates the culture and tools of diverse discourses and takes a systems thinking view on the evaluation of innovation. Diverse discourses converge into the importance of broadening the focus of sustainability innovations from merely cleaner technologies to more radical, paradigmatic innovations. Here, we focus on grassroots innovation (GI) as a radical innovation paradigm whose agents, goals and practices are fundamentally different from conventional innovation. Researchers typically attribute GIs the potential to influence the transition toward more sustainable production and consumption. Through a systematic literature review, we find that a research gap in the systematic analysis of GIs' sustainability persists. We thus propose a meta-theoretical framework to systematise the sustainability assessment of GIs across three system levels: product, organisational model and socio-technical system. Our framework delineates how the theory and tools from sustainability assessment and sustainable business models may enrich sustainability transitions studies in the analysis of grassroots, and more broadly, radical innovation, providing a systems thinking view and increasing the credibility and reflexivity of sustainability arguments in transition studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Understanding changing consumer needs is crucial for a company's survival. Particularly in the context of vehicle autonomy, customer insights lay a significant foundation for strategic decision-making of organizations in the automotive industry. This paper outlines how a German car manufacturer explored customer needs in the context of highly automated vehicles (AVs). 1 1 Highly automated vehicles (SAE level 3) = highly AVs. by implementing corporate foresight research with visionary customers and how the findings supported the strategic decision-making process of the firm. A qualitative pilot study with 29 visionary, trend-receiving customers from Germany, the USA and China identified three innovative use cases for premium highly AVs. A subsequent quantitative online survey with 733 participants from the same three markets confirms the relevance of the use cases for mainstream and innovative consumers. The findings underline that highly AVs are a game changer, transforming future cars into extended living and office spaces, with several implications for practitioners. The findings helped to adapt the organization's business model and branding strategy, provided valuable insights for follow-up studies and shaped corporate communication. The contribution of the paper is threefold: It introduces the concept of strategic customer foresight, outlines specifically how organizations can implement customer foresight research as well as how such research benefits the decision-making process of companies. Further, the paper discloses future customer needs in the context of premium highly AVs. • Visionary, trend-receiving customers improve corporate foresight by providing consumer perspective to foresight research. • Customer foresight research supports strategic decision-making process of companies. • Strategic customer foresight provides managers with arguments to convince leaders of trends and emerging consumer needs. • Consumers expect new use cases and activities in highly automated vehicles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Increasing globalization and great rivalry among national and international destinations imply that radical innovation has become a critical factor for the competitiveness of firms in the tourism industry. Radical innovation relies on knowledge shared through interorganizational relationships that connect firms within and between destinations. This paper analyzes the mediating role of explorative knowledge in the association between interorganizational relationships and radical innovation of firms located in tourism destinations. The empirical analysis uses original data collected from a sample of 215 firms located in World Heritage Cities in Spain. The results reveal that firms that take advantage of the variety of interorganizational relationships to achieve knowledge exploration develop more radical innovations. It is recommended that clustered firms build their network with a great diversity of relationships to obtain knowledge exploration since this is critical for developing radical innovation. Moreover, tourism destination institutions should foster variety in their relationships in social networks to contribute to tourism destination sustainability. Highlights • Antecedents of radical innovation in tourism firms are analyzed. • There is a positive effect of diversity of relationships on radical innovation. • Knowledge exploration mediates this relationship. • Firms should maintain diversity of relationships to trigger knowledge exploration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Strategic niche management and transition management have been promoted as useful avenues to pursue in order to achieve both specific product or process changes and system transformation by focusing on technology development through evolutionary and co-evolutionary processes, guided by government and relevant stakeholders. However, these processes are acknowledged to require decades to achieve their intended changes, a timeframe that is too long to adequately address many of the environmental and social issues many industrialized and industrializing nations are facing. An approach that involves incumbents and does not consider targets that look beyond reasonably foreseeable technology is likely to advance a model where incumbents evolve rather than being replaced or displaced . On the other hand, approaches that focus on creating new entrants could nurture niche development or deployment of disruptive technologies, but those technologies may only be marginally better than the technologies they replace. Either approach may take a long time to achieve their goals. Sustainable development requires both radical disruptive technological and institutional changes, the latter including stringent regulation, the integration of disparate goals, and changes in incentives to enable new voices to contribute to new systems and solutions. This paper outlines options for a strong governmental role in setting future sustainability goals and the pathways for achieving them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highlights • Application of innovation theory to study food waste in the foodservice sector. • Foodservice professionals implement incremental and radical food waste innovations. • Introduction of different innovations is based on financial cost/benefit analysis. • Professionals approach innovations from an experience-based learning perspective. • Professionals lack systematic implementation of waste reduction strategies. Abstract There is growing evidence that a significant share of global food is thrown away, with concomitant detrimental repercussions for sustainability. Reducing food waste is a key sustainability challenge for the food service industry. Despite the significance of this issue to the global foodservice industry, the link between innovation practices and food waste management has received limited attention in the academic literature. This paper uses innovation management and social constructionism to investigate interrelationships of food service provisions and innovations in waste management. It is based on the evaluation of food waste solutions and innovations that combine strategic dimensions of waste management with practice-driven initiatives, including incremental (processes and technologies) and radical innovations. The paper presents a range of waste management initiatives, showing that their implementation in the foodservice sector varies depending on management's beliefs, knowledge, goals and actions. The concepts discussed here could help practitioners to become more aware of the factors that drive the adoption of food waste innovations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The importance of breakthrough innovation as a source of organizational value creation has attracted considerable interest among scholars and practitioners alike. Despite the prevalent use of the term breakthrough, we still lack an understanding of its core definition, structure, and integrative connection with other forms of technological innovation. Breakthrough is often defined and synonymously used with radical, disruptive, or discontinuous innovation. This creates misconceptions in comprehending how various innovations should be conceptualized. Using 86 research articles published between 1990 and 2022, we conducted a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis to uncover patterns and themes that evolved while defining breakthrough innovation. We also proposed a Configuration - Application - Performance (CAP) framework that evaluates types of innovations and their thematic linkages. This framework allows us to resolve some myths about how breakthrough innovation has been conceptualized and operationalized. It also helps practitioners and future researchers understand breakthroughs from an innovation performance perspective. Our nuanced review enables us to open new areas for future research opportunities. • Technological breakthrough innovation and its integrative connection with other forms of innovation • A bibliometric analysis is applied to identify overarching thematic clusters. • Integrative framework of Configurations, Applications and Performance are developed to project future directions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Knowledge across several segments appears to be a necessary ingredient to innovation in the case of an architectural shift. Innovative firms utilize their knowledge stock to confront the competitive market. This paper demonstrates that exploitation of accumulated knowledge leads to architectural innovation. Ironically, in the new development of products with a short life cycle, when a firm discards its accumulated knowledge, innovation can be the result. After architecture technology is fully emerged, the utilization of architectural knowledge is one of the critical innovations. Based on the findings, architectural changing from sequential rotation flip into simultaneous vibration feeding flip in Pick and Place is a result of discarding the existing accumulated knowledge. This paper enhances our understanding of how architectural innovation occurs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates how the absorptive capacity of scientific spin-offs affects the benefits and challenges of customer involvement in the development of radical innovations. We conducted 36 interviews in 3 spin-offs over 4 years to collect data regarding customer involvement in the development of radical innovations. The findings show the importance of spin-offs developing both potential and realized absorptive capacities to internalize customer knowledge and technology emergence awareness and to simultaneously offset customers' lack of technical knowledge in formulating their needs. Both market and technical knowledge appeared to be important for spin-offs, and these were available from both customers and the parent research center. The findings' main implication is spin-offs need a blending capability to balance between (1) market and technical knowledge, (2) market-pull and technology-push approaches, (3) the involvement of customers and parent research centers, and (4) potential and realized absorptive capacities. This study contributes a conceptual framework on the blending capability of customer involvement in the development of radical innovations and a set of propositions for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital innovation is increasingly mentioned as a potential key contributor to sustainability transitions. However, there has been little theoretical discussion of this topic. In this conceptual paper, the authors draw on literature on both sustainability transition studies and innovation studies to explore critically the contribution of digital innovation in sustainability transitions. They conceptualize transitions as fundamental changes in patterns of production and consumption, such as those relating to energy. Radical innovation leads to changes in the structure of socio-technical systems underlying such patterns, while incremental innovation contributes to maintaining the structure and current patterns. The authors suggest that digital innovations may contribute positively to sustainability transitions through couplings with sustainable innovations. They propose the following typology of such couplings: incremental twin innovations, sustainability supported digital innovations, digitally supported sustainable innovations, and radical twin innovations. Radical twin innovations may possess the greatest potential for sustainability transitions, as they are linked to structural change and thus open new pathways for sustainability transitions, whereas incremental twin innovations merely optimize current unsustainable systems. The typology is illustrated with examples from shipping and from electricity systems, and some of the complexities of twin transitions encountered by researchers and practitioners alike are discussed. • Typology of couplings between sustainable and digital innovation. • Couplings with sustainable innovation may contribute to sustainability transitions. • Radical twin innovations have highest potential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a lack of study examining the relationship between high-involvement HRM practice and innovation capability as mediated by knowledge sharing. So, the motivation of this paper is to study and explore potential intermediating roles of explicit and tacit knowledge sharing in linking high-involvement HRM practice and innovation capability under the possible moderator of market turbulence. Analysis of Moment Structures was used to measure validation and test the structural model based on the questionnaire surveys of 333 participators in 119 Vietnamese manufacturing and service enterprises from May to July 2021. The collected data were inspected and analyzed using SPSS and AMOS software version 22. The result advocates the proposed hypotheses relating to the intermediating role of KS in the HRM practices-innovation relationship. It spotlights the crucial character of market turbulence in driving the domination of high-involvement HRM practice on incremental and radical innovation. This paper remarkably increases the insights of the precursor role of high-involvement HRM practice, intermediating mechanism of KS activities, and the regulating influence of market turbulence in predicting and fostering radical and incremental innovation, thereby pushing forward the theory of HRM and innovation management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we unpack and examine attitudes and potential barriers of end-users towards the self-driving car. We explore whether drivers have (mental) barriers and/or show resistance towards the self-driving car and, given such barriers and resistance are identified, investigate the main underlying reasons. Further, we suggest potential strategic implications for automotive companies and avenues to overcome, or at least mitigate, drivers’ barriers. The paper contributes to a better understanding of end-users’ opinions on radical innovations such as the self-driving car and strives to add value by linking scientific insights from both psychology as well as innovation literature. Only a limited number of studies so far have dealt with the potential barriers of users towards the self-driving car; therefore, it is our intent to provide first empirical evidence to trigger further research and foster a broader discussion on this relevant topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The transition towards a bioeconomy is increasingly viewed by both policy makers and scholars as one of the primary ways to reduce our dependency on fossil resources. However, socio-economic research on the transition towards the bioeconomy at the firm-level remains scarce. Specifically, studies approaching the bioeconomy from the technology and innovation management (TIM) concepts are particularly uncommon, although the importance of knowledge generation and innovation is considered crucial to make the transition towards a greener economy. In this study, we take a first step in addressing this issue by developing a set of guiding principles for the management of innovation processes in the bioeconomy comprised in three key issues: the relevant stakeholder groups and their importance in innovation development within the bioeconomy, the innovation network strategy and management, and organizational features considered prerequisites for collaborative innovation. This called for an identification of influencing factors specific to the bioeconomy context and the establishment of basic characteristics of innovation processes in the bioeconomy. The five identified influencing factors, the basic innovation process characteristics, and the guidelines and recommendations presented in this paper are based on insights derived from a four-staged literature research of the bioeconomy and TIM literature. In particular, we focused on the Open Innovation approach because of the evident fit between this approach and the requirements for innovation in the bioeconomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A fundamental problem in the field of the product innovation management in biopharmaceutical industry is how to explain the general source of drug discovery and radical innovations that sustain the competitive advantage of firms and technological progress in medicine. The current study confronts this problem by developing a conceptual framework of problem-driven innovation . The inductive study, based on ground-breaking drugs for lung cancer treatment, shows that the perception and solution of problem is an invariant force that supports the source of radical innovation and evolution of new technology in medicine. In fact, the evolution of radical innovations, driven by the evolution of consequential problems, is one of main determinants that generates a technological change in biopharmaceutical and other industries. This finding, in a Schumpeterian world of innovation-based competition, is due to the organizational behavior of leading firms that have a strong incentive to find innovative solutions to unsolved problems in order to achieve the prospect of a (temporary) profit monopoly. The main aim of this article is therefore to clarify and to generalize whenever possible, the source and evolution of path-breaking innovations in medicine to explain the long-term technological change in society. The study here also shows the important role of data-sharing health policy in order to solve problems and promote innovation for better therapies and an efficient “healthcare ecosystem”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Short development times that are characterized by a high return on engineering (RoE) become increasingly important as a critical success factor for the realization of radical innovation. However, the high degree of complexity of modern products results in a long and costly development time when traditional sequential development processes are employed. The paper at hand describes the restraints of typical gate-oriented product development processes and builds up on recent studies recommending highly iterative innovation processes for the fast realization of physical product ideas. The suggested methodology represents an approach based on the Scrum process model from the software industry that includes the continuous integration of costumers and production engineers based on the execution of feasibility studies by the early and stepwise development of prototypes. In this context, modern ramp up and demonstration factories possessing a product lifecycle management (PLM) system, an integrated ICT infrastructure, interdisciplinary engineering teams and scalable manufacturing technologies are suggested as key enablers. The authors illustrate that these facilities, together with a sensor-based product expedition are particularly suitable for implementing an adapted Scrum process for the development of physical product ideas. A critical reflection on the basis of the development of an electric car aims to underline the suitability of the presented methodology in enabling radical innovation [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technological system has been evolving due to the impact of product market. Technological innovation includes incremental innovation, radical innovation, and disruptive innovation. These three innovations run through the process of technical systemic evolution. In the S curve evolutions, path of technique evolution can be used to predict the potential state of current technology, so as to achieve future product with current technology, thus improving the success rate of product development. But the previous technology evolution theory can be used for forecasting incremental technological innovation which is on single segment S curve only. There are many evolution bifurcations which have lots of technical opportunities during the actual process of evolution. It can achieve an effective innovation. However, the branching process of evolution routes are unable be forecasted by means of traditional technology evolution theories. This paper researches evolution route bifurcations based on technical subsystem status analysis and resource analysis as well as technical evolution theory, concludes the technological opportunities searching method on path of technique evolution route bifurcation point and then seek to realize technology evolution of bifurcation point technological forecast and pre-producing. Finally, based on the technological opportunities search method on path of technique evolution bifurcations, we use this method on the innovative design for Automatic Teller Machine, forecast several technical branch products, and then verify the effectiveness of this method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A fundamental problem in the field of the economics of innovation is how to explain the sources of path-breaking innovations that support the human development and socio-economic progress in complex societies. The study here confronts this problem by developing the theoretical framework of global leadership-driven innovation, which endeavors to explain the general sources of General-Purpose Technologies (GPTs). Evidence, based on an inductive study of some leading societies, shows that the sources of strategic GPTs are, de facto, associated to the goal of global leadership of a purposeful system in the presence of effective and/or potential environmental threats. In particular, a purposeful system ( e.g. a complex society), with high economic potential and purposeful institutions having the purpose of achieving/sustaining a global leadership, tends to engender GPTs that are spread in the long run. The conceptual framework is applied to analyze the current determinant of a vital case study: the U.S. Navy's Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), a possible next GPT. Over the centuries, the General Purpose Technologies – that support technological, social and economic change – have significantly changed, but their driving force, based on the goal of global leadership, is an invariant feature of the human development. The vital linkages between observed facts provide a general framework to explain the sources of General Purpose Technologies, which induce human development and progress in society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A fundamental question in the field of technological forecasting and foresight is how to detect likely fruitful technological trajectories in new research fields, such as nanomedicine. We confront this question by developing an approach based on trends and networks of vital variables, analyzed by bibliometrics, which endeavours to detect fruitful trajectories of nanotechnology applied to ground-breaking anti-cancer treatments. Results tend to show two main technological waves of cancer treatments by nanotechnology applications. The early technological wave in the early 2000s was embodied in some types of chemotherapy agents with a broad spectrum of application, while after 2006 the second technological wave appeared with new applications of chemotherapy agents and molecular target therapy by nanotechnology. The present study shows new directions of nanotechnology-based chemotherapy and molecular cancer therapy in new treatments for breast, lung, brain and colon cancers. A main finding of this study is the recognition that, since the late 2000s, the sharp increase of several technological trajectories of anticancer drugs applied by nanotechnology seems to be driven by high rates of mortality of some types of cancers (e.g. pancreatic and brain) in order to find more effective anticancer therapies that increase the progression-free survival of patients: the so-called technological trajectories mortality driven. The study also points out that global research leaders tend to specialize in anticancer drugs, via nanotechnology, for specific cancers (e.g. Switzerland in prostate cancer, Japan in colon cancer, China in ovarian cancer and Greece in pancreatic cancer). These ground-breaking technological trajectories are paving new directions in biomedicine and generating a revolution in clinical practice that may lead to more effective anticancer treatments in the not-too-distant future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Radical innovations have enormous impacts on organizations, industries, and societies. The success of a radical innovation requires multiple facilitators within and across organizational boundaries. In this study, we distinguished the effects of two dimensions of organizational unlearning on radical innovation; these dimensions correspond to the different levels of social relations and slack resources possessed by the organizations. We conducted the research in the context of high-technology industries, including semiconductors, telecommunications, optoelectronics, and others. In total, 279 responses were received, representing 193 sample firms. The results showed that the change dimension of unlearning positively affects radical innovation, whereas the forgetting dimension has a negative effect. In addition, slack resources strengthen the positive relationship between the change dimension of unlearning and radical innovation. The findings contribute to a better understanding of the manner in which the integration of the theoretical perspectives of organizational unlearning, organizational resources, and social networks facilitates radical innovation. Theoretical and practical implications are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Fabcreating, a highly sophisticated form of 3D printing, has become ubiquitous by 2033. We outline how digital fabrication might evolve in a science fiction prototype (SFP) and provide a 2033 use case in which consumers produce their own highly customized consumer electronics at home. It shows how consumers virtually select, customize and print mobile phones and highlights how digital fabrication impacts society at large. Our technology outlook is backed by expert interviews. Our story vignette forms a showcase to address the role of technology, creativity and context in SFP. We address the anatomy of SFP and argue that context is important in order to promote opportunity recognition and to envisage game changing technologies and their societal impact. We develop a SFP typology based on a technology prototype and context prototype perspective. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the radical innovations to treat lung cancer, which are generating a revolution in clinical practice, in order to provide fruitful health policy implications. The finding shows an allometric process of scientific growth of target therapies: disproportionate knowledge growth of the new anticancer drug (Gefitinib) in relation to the standard platinum-based chemotherapy. These ground-breaking target therapies for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) may replace standard chemotherapy approaches, which might enter into a maturity phase in the not-too-distant future. The current debate concerns some uncertainties about the efficacy, the long-term effects of these radical innovations on carcinogenesis and the high cost of these new anticancer drugs for healthcare system. Nevertheless, these innovative treatments generate several benefits in terms of higher survival and quality of life. The development of path-breaking target therapies for NSCLC and the efficiency of personalized healthcare system should be based on the understanding of cancer biology, E-health system and chemoprevention (e.g. early stage biomarkers) to improve stratification of patients and the precision of first-line target therapies: this strategy may increase the fruitful effects of new multi-inhibitors blocking agents and their cost effectiveness; in addition, it is also important a long-run systemic evaluation of costs, based on clinical and economic monitoring of patients to support a far-sighted health policy. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Technological change in medicine has complex interactions driven by demand- and supply side determinants. The epistemological position of this paper is that scientific research generates in medicine vital radical innovations (new drugs/therapies) that are associated, a posteriori, to moderate and/or severe side effects. These side effects spur feedback mechanisms, which support a co-evolution of innovation in parallel technological pathways: 1) incremental innovations with lower side effects and higher efficacy; 2) emergence of new radical innovations induced from severe side effects. Empiricist-positivist arguments support this stance and show the main role of society and healthcare in the patterns of technological innovation in medicine. Critical evidences are the foundation to state main inductive theoretical implications between observed facts. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Radical innovations prompt significant subsequent technological development and exhibit novelty and “architectural” innovation, i.e. rearranging the way design elements are put together in a system. Thus, radical innovations often serve as the foundation for new technological systems, industries or domains and are seen to involve significant conceptual breakthroughs, through either luck or genius. The much more common incremental innovations are perceived as mere improvements to existing technologies. Decreasing returns from incremental innovation are understood to motivate a search for a new radical innovation to provide a platform for more incremental innovation. However, deeper study shows that the conceptual “distance” a radical breakthrough travels is far shorter than would initially appear. On closer inspection, several innovations with undoubtedly radical effects comprise several small inventive steps that appear self-evident, even logical, to the developers. This conundrum appears to stem from conflating a radical effect with a radical development. What''s more, this view of radical innovation views inventions as isolated from the broader currents of technological development. An alternative view sees innovations as embedded in a co-evolutionary socio-technical landscape, where inventions develop in a technological environment and become building blocks for further inventions. Although only inventions adopted for use can be called innovations, “inactive” inventions can also serve as building blocks. In this view, (almost) all steps to innovation are incremental, but the system''s self-organized criticality (SOC) allows spontaneous radical effects. This work explores the importance of an evolutionary and SOC view of invention and innovation through agent based models. We develop a simple model capable of simulating the build-out of technologies in a series of simulation experiments. Although all inventions develop incrementally, the model behaviour is expected to exhibit SOC so that some inventions trigger much higher rates of subsequent development than others. Thus, the results are expected to support an evolutionary view of technological development where a radical effect is a consequence of the entire interdependent landscape rather than of the radical development of a specific innovation. The model should be of interest to several research streams concerned with simulating and studying R&D activities. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: In this study, we investigate how hospitality companies can promote incremental and radical innovation through human resource management practices (i.e., selection and training). Data from 196 independent hotels and restaurants operating in the People''s Republic of China show that hiring multi-skilled core customer-contact employees and training core customer-contact employees for multiple skills both have significant and positive effects on incremental and radical innovation among hotel and restaurant companies. The two human resource management practices are also found to have a negative joint impact on incremental but not radical innovation. The implications for promoting innovation in hospitality companies are discussed. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Literature-related discovery (LRD) is the linking of two or more previously disjoint concepts in order to produce novel, interesting, plausible, and intelligible connections (i.e., potential discovery). LRD has been used to identify potential treatments or preventative actions for challenging medical problems, among myriad other applications. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was the first pandemic of the 21st century. SARS was eventually controlled through increased hygienic measures (e.g., face mask protection, frequent hand washing, living quarter disinfection), travel restrictions, and quarantine. According to recent reviews of SARS, none of the drugs that were used during the pandemic worked. For the present paper, SARS was selected as the first application of LRD to an infectious disease. The main goal of this research was to identify non-drug non-surgical treatments that would 1) prevent the occurrence, or 2) reduce the progression rate, or 3) stop/reverse the progression of SARS. The MeSH taxonomy of Medline was used to restrict potential discoveries to selected semantic classes, and to identify potential discoveries efficiently. To enhance the volume of potential discovery, databases were used in addition to Medline. These included the Science Citation Index (SCI) and, in contrast to previous work, a full text database. Because of the richness of the full text, ‘surgical’ queries were developed that targeted the exact types of potential discovery of interest while eliminating clutter more efficiently. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Pressure on consumer goods manufacturers to develop new products with significantly less environmental impact is growing, through increased consumer awareness of environmental issues and governments setting ambitious emissions reductions targets. A strategic response to this pressure is to prepare a portfolio of innovative product ideas to meet a range of future emissions reductions targets. However, although extensive work exists on ideation (the generation of novel product ideas) and eco-design (design for reduced environmental impact), eco-ideation (generation of ideas that particularly aim to reduce environmental impacts) has had little attention. The challenge of eco-ideation is to release the creativity of a broad range of employees, only few of whom may be familiar with the drivers of environmental impact. This paper proposes a novel tool to facilitate the generation of radical product and process ideas giving step-change reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The features of products and processes that drive greenhouse gas emissions across the product life cycle were characterized with a set of indicators. A simple visual tool was created to show these indicators on a sliding scale between best and worst imaginable performance. A leading question associated with each slider was designed to stimulate lower impact ideas. The tool was iteratively refined and simplified through structured testing with individuals from across a range of roles and differing knowledge of environmental impacts. The final eco-ideation tool used 14 scales, with leading questions for each scale developed to stimulate idea generation. The tool’s effectiveness was evaluated through use in a series of 15 individual workshops and compared with the outcomes of an equal number of conventional 12-person group-brainstorming sessions. The comparison suggests that using the simple tool generally leads to a wider range of more radical ideas than emerge from group brainstorming. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: This paper explores the way in which radical innovations that offer qualitatively better performance in terms of sustainability may or may not come to pass within a large, established industry that is not usually associated with such dramatic changes. In particular, it explores the case of the development of fuel cell technology as a replacement for the internal combustion engine in the products of the automotive industry, with a focus on understanding the conditions under which incumbents with a disincentive to change may ultimately become the means by which such change is introduced. The paper identifies five potential ‘change factors’ to explain the adoption of fuel cell technology, but concludes that it is a combination of the change factors that is important. Technological progress alone seems insufficient to explain its success, while environmental regulation has been a second crucial condition for the large investments in fuel cell technology. While carmakers engage with entrepreneurs and use their technology to gain competitive advantage, market factors have played a minor role in fuel cell technology adoption and entrepreneurs have lacked the resources, the credibility and the independence to become influential in radical technological change. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: A systematic two-component approach (front-end component, back-end component) to bridging unconnected disciplines and accelerating potentially radical discovery and innovation (based wholly or partially on text mining procedures) is presented. The front-end component has similar objectives to those in the classical literature-based discovery (LBD) approach, although it is different mechanistically and operationally. The front-end component will systematically identify technical disciplines (and their associated leading experts) that are directly or indirectly-related to solving technical problems of high interest. The back-end component is actually a family of back-end techniques, only one of which shares the strictly literature-based analysis of the classical LBD approach. The non-LBD back-end techniques (literature-assisted discovery) make use of the human experts associated with the disparate literatures (disciplines) uncovered in the front-end to generate radical discovery and innovation. Specifically, in the literature-assisted discovery operational mode, these disparate discipline experts could be used as: [1.] Recipients of solicitation announcements (BAA, SBIR, MURI, journal Special Issue calls for papers, etc.), [2.] Participants in Workshops, Advisory Panels, Review Panels, Roadmaps, and War Games, [3.] Points of Contact for Field Science Advisors, Foreign Field Offices, Program Officer site visits, and potential transitions. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamics of environmental innovation using the case of Ballard Power System’s Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell technology. Many have argued that this technology offers considerable environmental benefits and may surpass the internal combustion engine as the dominant vehicular power source. However, more than a century of incremental improvements, government policy and the emergence of complementary industries have made the latter a dominant and difficult to challenge technology. The authors review the difficulties of developing and adopting a radical innovation by analysing the value chain and supporting infrastructure. They also question the environmental implications and the role of government policy with regard to such technologies. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

• Radical innovation can significantly change global value chains and redefine their geographic scope and international trade flows. • We analyze the case of a radical technological innovation – cell-based meat - as applied to the tuna global chain. • Radical innovation may also cause a shift from natural resource-intensive to technology-intensive activities. • By substituting animal-based inputs, severe environmental and animal welfare misconduct are likely to be mitigated. Organizational misconduct, defined as illegal, unethical or irresponsible organizational behavior, concerning the environment can lead to resource depletion, threats to biodiversity, animal suffering and environmental damage. Some chains have been scrutinized due to the massive depletion of environmental resources caused by illegal exploitation, such as the tuna chain. In search for solutions, regulations and product traceability have been used. Despite the urgency of the subject, less attention has been given to how radical innovations may lead to preventing animal welfare and environmental misconduct. Technological radical innovations are characterized by their uniqueness, novelty, and potential to promote significant transformations in a chain. Thus, we adopted an exploratory approach to analyze the case of a radical technological innovation – cell-based meat – which can substantially transform the meat value chain and, more specifically, mitigate overwhelming environmental and animal welfare misconduct in the tuna global chain. The case illustrates how radical innovation can significantly change global value chain's activities and redefine its geographic scope; it may also represent a shift from natural resource-intensive to technology-intensive activities. More importantly, by substituting animal-based inputs, severe environmental and animal welfare issues will be mitigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Firms' open strategies are tied to their innovation protection mechanisms. Extant theoretical and empirical research provides valuable insights, which generally conclude that stronger intellectual property protection is likely to be associated with increased openness. However, current research still has a limited understanding of the relationship between the choice of protection mechanisms and the mode of openness. We propose that firms adopt different modes of open activities when they choose corresponding effective protection mechanisms. We further investigate how these open activities affect innovation output and whether the impact of open activities on innovation output is contingent on innovation types. The empirical results from 1,202 firms in the IRC Open Innovation Survey show that firms pursue formal open activities when they incorporate legal methods to protect innovation. In contrast, firms pursue informal open activities when they incorporate strategic methods to protect innovation. We further find that formal open activities favor incremental innovation, while informal open activities favor radical one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is revolutionizing the treatment of aortic stenosis. • TAVI is substituting the technique of surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) to treat aortic stenosis. • TAVI has lower all-cause mortality and lower rate of disabling/major stroke than SAVR. • TAVI generates lower rates of in-hospital complications. • TAVI can be a dominant technology in future having high cost-effectiveness compared to SAVR. The goal of this study is to analyze the evolution of technology in artificial heart valves for solving the problem of aortic stenosis (a narrowing of the aortic valve opening) that is one of the most common valvular heart diseases in society. In particular, this study explains the evolution of new technology of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) compared to surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR). Data of Scopus (2020) based scientific products and patents that have in title, abstract or keywords the following terms: "transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)" or "surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR)". The evolution of technology is analyzed with a model, which shows how TAVI technique is substituting established technique of SAVR in cardiology. The relationships are investigated with loglinear models using ordinary least squares method for estimating the unknown parameters. Statistical analyses are performed with the Statistics Software SPSS® 26. Statistical analyses reveal that TAVI, with its growing scientific and technological production, is expected to be a dominant technology in future for the treatment of aortic stenosis in society. In fact, the scientific production of TAVI has a coefficient of growth in function of time equal to 0.39(P <.001) compared to a coefficient for SAVR that is 0.10(P <.001). Statistical analyses with patent production confirm these results. Findings hint at general properties of the evolutionary behavior of this medical technology: 1) TAVI has a disproportionate growth in scientific products and patents compared to SAVR; 2) TAVI has a growing scientific and technological production driven by major and minor technological advances to solve consequential problems to treat valvular heart diseases; 3) learning via diffusion and diffusion by learning are driving forces underlying the development and adoption of TAVI in cardiology. TAVI, introduced in 2002, is growing in terms of scientific production and innovative activity to revolutionize the management of aortic stenosis in cardiology with important implications of health management based on improved cost-effectiveness of this new technology and better efficiency in healthcare of people. Scientific and Technological evolution of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) compared to surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) [Display omitted] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although radical innovations are expected to play an increasing role in sustainable development by changing existing (unsustainable) systems, many of them do not succeed. This paper describes one such failure of innovation in the sanitation sector and offers insight into how innovators could redirect the innovation process to bring about real change. Drawing on practice theory in combination with the multilevel perspective on sustainability transitions, we identify elements of practices associated with a sanitation innovation and analyse how these interact with established practices in the sanitation sector. We establish the factors that facilitated and impeded this innovation's ability to create change. Based primarily on interviews conducted during a longitudinal case study undertaken between 2012 and 2018, our results suggest that: 1) the division of practice into elements of material, activity, competence and meaning facilitates a detailed analysis of how the innovation interacts with existing practices; 2) innovators may need to act as activists to align the meanings ascribed to the practice at hand across the regime actors, and 3) understanding the different elements of practice helps identify lock-ins that prevent niche innovations from succeeding. We conclude that it is necessary to change the practices of more resourceful actors in different parts of the regime, especially in policy, in order to move beyond experimental stages of innovation. • Dividing practice into separate elements helps in understanding how innovation interacts with existing practices. • Understanding the different elements of practice helps identify lock-ins that hinder niche innovations from succeeding. • Innovators may need to act as activists to align the meanings ascribed to a practice at hand across the regime actors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Demonstrates that managers purposefully shape the business context for radical innovation. • Shows that strategic option of developing radical innovation in collaboration with direct competitors offers opportunities otherwise unattainable. • Highlights a clear preference of managers for network coopetition, using formal governance, and based on intensive knowledge sharing. • Shows that by grouping a large number of partners and developing networks for aiming at radical innovation, firms can concentrate on own core competencies and derive benefit from the strengths of involved partners. The major premise of this study is that managers purposefully shape the business context for radical innovation. Particularly, the strategic option of developing radical innovation in collaboration with direct competitors offers opportunities otherwise unattainable. We tap into its cognitive underpinnings by running an experimental study of coopetition design for radical innovation. We have collected 5760 binary decisions from a sample of 160 managers. Their indications are used to run a choice-based conjoint analysis in order to identify utilities attributed to coopetition-shaping decisions in a radical innovation project (using a scenario of self-driving/electric cars produced by VW, Daimler or Tesla). We use Hierarchical Bayes Multinomial Logit Regression to test a set of four hypotheses, each addressing a different coopetition factor to unveil manager's preferences in coopetition design for radical innovation. Our findings pinpoint a clear preference for network coopetition, using formal governance, and being based on intensive knowledge sharing. Contrary to prior literature, market uncertainty does not appear to significantly influence coopetition design for radical innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We posit that the investments in political connections made by a firm in an emerging market will impact differently its propensity to introduce radical and incremental innovations. In addition, we argue that this effect will be moderated by alternate non-market firm strategies, such as bribery. Using a dataset of more than 9000 firms in 30 emerging economies from Eastern Europe and Central Asia we find that political connections increase the probability of radical innovation but have no significant impact on incremental innovation. Moreover, larger bribing reduces the positive impact of political connections on radical innovation. Our results confirm the importance of political connections for firm activities, but also caution firms on their heterogeneous impact on various types of innovations, and their detrimental interplay with other non-market strategies. • We investigate the effect of political connection on innovation using a dataset of 9000 firms in 30 emerging markets. • Investments in political connections have a positive impact on firm radical innovation in emerging markets. • Investments in political connections do not affect a firm's incremental innovation performance in emerging markets. • Firm bribery moderates negatively (i.e., weakens) the effect of political connection investments on radical innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Innovation scholarship identified eight product and service innovation types. • Market novelty and cost can identify a relative position of an innovative product. • Consistency in the literature and theory is important in guiding practitioners. Research conducted in the innovation field lags behind organizations' general technological development and innovativeness. Literature that previously depicted innovation types in developed markets is markedly different from progressively publicized emerging market innovation types. While capital-abundant firms tend to engage in respective pioneering and incremental innovation loops, resource-constrained firms and firms in emerging countries may partially free-ride on existing products and services through innovations such as copycat and frugal. To date, there have been no attempts to holistically consolidate product and service innovation types into one overarching typology. Using novel methods of text mining and co-citation analysis, this study systematically maps three decades of product and service innovation scholarship to provide a typology of eight major product and service innovation types. This is further supported by case study analysis to demonstrate how these innovation types fit into the cost vs market novelty matrix. This study is unique in its methodological proposition to systematically review the innovation scholarship of more than 1,400 articles through comprehensive, quantified, and objective methods that offer transparent and reproducible results. The study provides some clarity regarding the classifications and characteristics of the innovation typology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigated the relationship between open innovation and the radicalness of innovation. The balance between radical and incremental innovation is an essential part of the ambidextrous use of explorative and exploitative strategies, and this study assumed that open innovation is usually interlinked with explorative strategies and is thus related to radical innovation performance. Accordingly, following an empirical investigation, we demonstrate that the balance of open innovation firms is slightly skewed toward explorative radical innovation. Using the Korean version of the community innovation survey, we show that the relative radicalness that is projected on innovation output exhibits an inverted-U curve. Furthermore, the curve shifts based on the level of inbound open innovation. Our results suggest that there is an ambidextrous balance between radical and incremental innovation while implementing open innovation. In addition, the research results imply that firms placing greater weight on explorative radical innovations need to consider in-depth open innovation strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]