Innovation
Thoughts on AI, deep tech and data — plus weekly reads from the innovation and technology management literature.
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Experimentation (Weekly Reads)
Last week, we organized at ESADE the socioeconomic impact projects for ATTRACT. The main message from the workshop is the need for researchers to experiment and try other methods for impact evaluation, beyond traditional measures. In line with this, let me go through some interesting…
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Research Impacts (Weekly Reads)
Although I read through the new publications every week, I have not posted on my blog for quite a while. Nonetheless, hope to resume again this week. Let me restart by focusing on research impacts. Two weeks ago, I was lucky to visit Bologna and…
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Making sense of hype (Weekly Reads)
Strategic framing of enabling technologies: Insights from firms digitizing smell and taste - explores the phases in the framing of enabling technologies. "General and novel" - communicate about novelty, universality and broad applications of a new technology. “Specific and familiar” - focus on flagship application…
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Acceptance of Novel Technologies
Technology Legitimation: A Product-Level Examination Across the Technology Lifecycle - explores legitimacy of products across the lifecycle of a technology. The study distinguishes between the firms' legitimation behavior and the customers' legitimation emphasis. These were the stages explored (adding to Utterback and Abernathy's famous model)…
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Corporate Entrepreneurship (Weekly Reads - Jan 14)
Corporate entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review and future research agenda - a straightforward review of corporate entrepreneurship, exploring its antecedents, dimensions and consequences Inside-Out, Outside-In, or All-in-One? The Role of Network Sequencing in the Elaboration of Ideas - introduces the concept of inside-out network sequencing…
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Scaling New Ventures (Weekly Reads)
Hyperspecialization and Hyperscaling: A Resource-based Theory of the Digital Firm - puts forward a theory of scalability, which describes "how the value derived from a firm’s resource bundle in a focal activity changes as the size of the bundle increases." A firm’s resource bundle is…
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Theory, theory, theory (Weekly Reads - 21 Nov)
Phenomenon-Based Theorizing - where do ideas from phenomenon-driven papers come from? The authors mention personal experience, curious observation, data complication, facilitating conversations and uncovering examples. Achieving Fit and Avoiding Misfit in Qualitative Research - one of the biggest challenges with qualitative research is connecting the…
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Pursuing Ideas (Weekly Reads - Nov 12)
Sowing the seeds of failure: Organizational identity dynamics in new venture pivoting - pivoting when you are still establishing an identity can be difficult. This study identifies co-development of business model with the investors, professionalization of recruitment and implementation of routines based on the planned…
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Business Research Meta (Weekly reads - Oct 29)
Are FT50 journals really leading? A comment on Fassin - The FT50 list which reflects the journals that business schools value has its own faults. As this editorial mentions: these journals have too many reviews and the citations of these journals can be gamed following…
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Deep Tech Paper Development Workshop
We are hosting a paper development workshop at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) to be held in Austin, Texas this December. The title of the workshop is DEEP TECH: EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES IN INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP . Deep technologies, usually referred to as technologies…
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