Innovation
Thoughts on AI, deep tech and data — plus weekly reads from the innovation and technology management literature.
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Weekly Reads (Oct 8)
How industry projects can stimulate academic engagement: an experimental study among U.S. engineering professors - one current research interest in our group is how to incentivize researchers to engage in industry collaborations. This study is a perfect example of what we want to do in…
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Weekly Reads (Sept 17)
The long-term consequences of entrepreneurship: Earnings trajectories of former entrepreneurs - Former entrepreneurs earn 27% less when they return to typical wage work. This can be mainly attributed to their tendency to work less number of hours and to a lesser extent, employers paying them…
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Weekly Reads (Sep 3)
Mitigating not-invented-here and not-sold-here problems: The role of corporate innovation hubs - Fascinating study on the NIH and NSH syndrome. As its name suggests, NIH refers to the negative attitude researchers tend to have when they work with externally generated knowledge. On the other hand…
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Trade-offs (Weekly Reads - Aug 27)
The myth of the flat start-up: Reconsidering the organizational structure of start-ups - hierarchy is not automatically a bad thing. It depends on what you are trying to optimize for: is it creative or commercial success? The two may not generally be the same. Asymmetries…
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Weekly Reads (Aug 15)
In the past few weeks, there have just been tons of interesting articles published in technology management. Instead of giving a summary for each article, I'll just dump all these fascinating articles I've seen. I might revise this blog post in the future and write…
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What I wish I knew earlier as a management academic
It's my second Academy of Management conference. My first time attending in 2019 in Boston, I went to a lot of workshops but I didn't really absorb a lot of the things. As a PhD student back then specializing in innovations in drug discovery, I…
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Finding myself in management academia
This is a different post from my usual one reviewing the academic literature. It's the academy of management conference this week and it made me reflect a bit about my research identity and intellectual journey so far. I'll be joining the junior faculty consortium for…
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Supporting risky innovations (Weekly Reads - 23 July)
“Baby, you can drive my car”: Psychological antecedents that drive consumers’ adoption of AI-powered autonomous vehicles - straightforward study on psychological factors related to potential adoption of autonomous vehicles. They looked at the following factors: effort expectancy, social recognition, hedonism, technology security and privacy concerns…
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Weekly Reads (July 16)
Artificial intelligence in information systems research: A systematic literature review and research agenda - a systematic review of AI research in IS. They propose the following problems that can be addressed for future studies: lack of consensus around the definition of AI, overemphasis on the…
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Weekly Reads - Jul 2
The Economist's What ifs? Currently, I'm teaching a class on the business of life science. One of our modules is about the future trends in the life sciences and this week's edition of the Economist explored various future scenarios: If biohackers injected themselves with mRNA…
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