Exploring the adoption process of personal technologies: A cognitive-affective approach

The impact of cognitive and emotional factors on the customer's decision to adopt a new technology has long been at the core of innovation and marketing literature. Today, the proliferation of personal technologies makes the understanding of the adoption process of such innovations a vital issue. This article, moving from long-established technology adoption theories, integrates affective factors to propose a comprehensive framework to interpret and orient innovation and marketing approaches of companies. To do this, we review a rich literature from the domains of management, information systems, marketing and cognitive psychology, identifying six possible sources of perceived value for personal technologies, hence attitude to adopt them: functional value, monetary value, social value, entertainment value, epistemic value and aesthetic value. After defining and framing them in the extant literature, we discuss how the framework may be adopted in practice to support Companies' strategies in the surprisingly under-explored industry of personal technologies.     

生物制药产业技术创新能力系统演化的遗传算法模型与仿真研究

基于CAS理论视角,明确生物制药产业技术创新能力的定义,构建生物制药产业技术创新能力系统的概念模型图,找出组成该系统的产业技术创新流程及惯例,并阐述生物制药产业技术创新能力系统的演化机制。与此同时,构建生物制药产业技术创新能力系统演化的遗传算法模型,并通过Matlab软件仿真生物制药产业技术创新能力系统的演化。结果表明,产业技术扩散对生物制药产业技术创新能力强度有显著增强作用,而产业吸收能力作为技术创新惯例则在适应度函数的迭代计算中起到显著约束的作用。     

技术创新对区域经济发展的影响研究——以江苏省为例

针对技术创新与区域经济发展的关系问题,引入技术进步的TRIZ理论,将logistic函数引入原始CES函数,构建考虑累积专利影响的CES函数模型。以江苏省619家创新型企业的数据为基础,运用R语言软件编译分析,回归得出苏南、苏中、苏北三地区CES函数模型,分析江苏省不同区域地缘特点、产业结构及技术创新对区域经济发展趋势的影响规律,给出促进区域经济创新发展的政策建议。     

合作与创新:中小企业商业模式典型特性与其绩效间关系研究

中小企业是商业生态系统中参与合作及创新的重要主体,其商业模式在企业绩效和持续发展中起到了关键作用。为探索中小企业的商业模式特性与企业绩效间的关系,对江浙290家中小企业进行数据调研与分析。研究发现:中小企业商业模式的价值共创性和创新性对其绩效具有显著的正向作用,商业模式的难以模仿性在价值共创性、创新性与企业绩效间起到显著的中介作用。研究结论一方面深化了商业模式特性与绩效之间的作用机理,另一方面为中小企业通过改善商业模式特性提升绩效提供实践参考。     

How beneficial are relational capital and technology orientation for innovation? Evidence from Mexican SMEs

Globally, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are engines of economic growth and job creation. After the pandemic, innovation activities have become more critical than ever as a generator of competitiveness. Therefore, we need to better understand the factors that lead to innovation in SMEs. This study aims to analyze the role of relational capital and technology orientation in innovation to appreciate its final impact on firm performance. The main results reveal a strong positive effect of relational capital on innovation, but the effect is not so strong as firm performance. We also found a strong positive effect of relational capital on technology orientation. Finally, we offer some clues in the debate on technology as a source of innovation and how relational capital and technology orientation are related to a firm’s performance. The results reveal significant implications for innovation policies and relational capital strategies for SMEs.     

Modular designs and integrating practices: Managing collaboration through coordination and cooperation

Collaboration in large-scale projects introduces challenges involving both coordination (the ability to collaborate) as well as cooperation (the willingness to do so). Existing research has shown how modular designs can improve coordination by locating interdependencies within rather than between different modules. Based on an in-depth case study of collaboration in a large-scale infrastructure project, our study highlights an effect of modularity on collaboration that previously has been overlooked. Specifically, we show that while modular designs may help overcome coordination challenges by reducing interdependencies between modules, they can in turn hamper collaboration by emphasizing specialization within modules. Therefore, though existing work typically perceives modularity and integration as opposites, we clarify how they can also act as complements. In particular, we show how firms need to complement modular designs with integrating practices that stimulate cooperation. Overall, we contribute to the literature on collaboration and modularity by explaining when and how organizations can combine modularity and integration.     

More is not always better: Effects of collaboration breadth and depth on radical and incremental innovation performance at the project level

This study investigates the effect of project-level collaboration breadth (i.e., the number of collaboration partner types) and collaboration depth (i.e., the intensity of the interactions with these partners) on the incremental and radical innovation performance of innovation projects. The econometric analyses, based on a Community Innovation Study sample of 218 innovation projects conducted in German manufacturing companies, reveal inverted U-shaped relationships between collaboration breadth and radical innovation performance and between collaboration depth and incremental innovation performance. These curvilinear effects speak to the high sensitivity of innovation projects to the extent of collaborative activity, which implies that practitioners should exert caution in managing collaborative innovation projects. This study contributes to the understanding of project-level open innovation and to the overall understanding of the performance effects of innovation collaboration, which, following recent assertions in the literature, could be flawed by analyses conducted at the organizational level.     

Business optimism and the innovation-profitability nexus: Introducing the COVID-19 adaptable capacity framework

In this paper we develop a novel multi-stage integrative framework for technology foresight-planning. This framework integrates econometric analysis and a technology foresight procedure to predict: (i) the most COVID-19 resilient industries at the national level; and (ii) the most adversely affected industries (due to prior investment in innovation) that requires public support. Our econometric results show that the pandemic has induced a ‘double-edge sword’ effect of innovation on firm’s COVID-19 adaptable capacity (CAC). Costly innovation undertaken before the pandemic can be bad for firms if it compounds the problem of declining post-pandemic outbreak profit and optimism. Contrarily, firm level innovation improves firm’s CAC as the prior innovators’ profitability are found to have above-even odds of rebounding quickly post-pandemic outbreak. Our empirical analysis focuses mostly on developing economies, where firms are most likely implementing only incremental (non-frontier) innovation and thus our results should be generalized with caution.     

地方高校科技创新能力评价指标体系构建思考

地方高校在区域科技创新活动中扮演着非常重要的角色。其科技创新能力受资金和人力投入、创新软环境、基础条件、经济社会状况等的影响。在系统性、科学性、开放性、创新性和可操作性等原则指导下,地方高校科技创新评价指标包括创新基础能力、创新投入能力、创新产出能力和创新转化能力,以三级指标系统、全面地反映各个层面的基本特征。     

基于破坏性创新的比亚迪创新战略研究

破坏性创新理论作为一种非连续的技术或商业模式创新,通过低端破坏和新兴市场等独特价值进入非主流市场,建立起新的客户价值结构,改变了行业既有的竞争规则,破坏了在位企业的竞争优势基础。本文首先对破坏性创新理论进行梳理和归纳,从技术和商业层面分析了比亚迪破坏性创新的形成机理,提出了比亚迪所存在的突出优势和弱点问题,并给予一定的建议。