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This study aims to explore how firms can enhance their innovation processes by effectively utilizing external knowledge and employing digital technologies. Specifically, it emphasizes the role of absorptive capacity (ACAP) in external knowledge acquisition and assimilation (potential ACAP), as well as transformation and exploitation (realiz...
The use of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) for the evaluation of medical devices in healthcare organisations implies the creation of new knowledge to be combined with that stored in the human, relational, and structural dimensions of their Intellectual Capital (IC).Therefore, HTA can represent a trigger for innovating the IC and this process can...
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The study aims to test the success of university-industry (U-I) collaboration in terms of innovation process efficiency. Then, this study explores the moderating role of a set of organizational routines in the U-I relationship, which can help in overcoming the issues undermining the collaboration success.
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The st...
Faced with dramatic pressures connected with COVID-19, the health systems were challenged by the need of providing care to COVID-19 patients, without jeopardising the lives of physicians. Telemedicine was a candidate solution, but just having a well-performing technology is not enough. Theoretical models on technology adoption alert that to be effe...
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This paper aims to provide a helpful tool for those who plan to implement blockchain-based solutions for the governance of the electronic medical record (EMR) in health-care settings. The goals are to identify each type of stakeholders involved in these projects and to clarify the relevance, to achieve success, of their readiness, intended...
The achievement of innovation performance by means of open innovation (OI) is not automatic and intellectual capital (IC) can play a pivotal role. In 2020, COVID-19 challenged the sanitary systems and required to rapidly introduce innovative health technologies. By unleashing multitudes of brains, OI may help. However, the pandemic introduced socia...
With the advent of the Digital Transformation, Healthcare Systems have switched from paper to electronic health records (EMR). However, there are few critical issues related to data governance (e.g., transparency of data, traceability, immutability, privacy and security) that need to be addressed in the upcoming years. Blockchain (BT) is a decentra...
Despite the benefits of the advent of Digital Transformation, and the consequent transition to the electronic medical record, there are few critical issues related to data governance, such as data transparency, traceability, immutability, privacy, and security. Blockchain is an innovative technology with the potential to address such issues. The st...
This article addresses the orchestration of scientific communities, which encompass a variety of competing and/or collaborating autonomous actors-mainly universities and researchers-which aim at developing theory. Scientific communities-which are part of more comprehensive scientific ecosystems, comprising also public and private organizations, civ...
Medical devices are introduced in the market with an ever-increasing rate, with important benefits for the whole society's health. In the greatest majority of cases, although representing the entry point for devices, healthcare local institutions/hospitals do not receive any macro-level guidance from (inter)national authorities for their assessment...
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In the past decade, in the space industry, many initiatives intended at offering open access to big data from space multiplied. Therefore, firms started adopting business models (BMs) which lever on digital technologies (e.g. cloud computing, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence), to seize these opportunities. Within this...
This article addresses the orchestration of scientific ecosystems, which encompass a variety of competing and/or collaborating autonomous actors-including researchers, universities and industrial firms-which aim at developing theory. Scientific ecosystems are a very interesting subject to be studied because some of their features-specifically data...
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The role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and digital platforms in enabling connectivity and collaboration among actors is neglected when dealing with outbound open innovation (OI). Moreover, the outbound OI process is not currently defined in a univocal way. Thus, this paper aims to outline the outbound OI phases and to...
The inbound open innovation (OI) process consists of the opening of the innovation funnel to the contribution of external partners, with the aim of tapping into their knowledge. This opportunity is particularly valuable for family firms (FFs), which often have insufficient resources. However, the literature on the OI behaviour of family firms is no...
HOW GOVERNANCE MECHANISMS IN FAMILY FIRMS IMPACT OPEN INNOVATION CHOICES: A FUZZY LOGIC APPROACH
Although there is an increased interest in studies on family firms (FFs) and open innovation (OI) the existing knowledge is rather limited. This study explores the open innovation choices in terms of partner type, their determinants and the related innovation performance in FFs with respect to non-family firms (non-FFs). By means of a European surv...
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The objective of this paper is to develop the conceptual design of an ICT platform supporting the inbound Open Innovation process within the Technological Developments business unit of Leonardo Defence Systems.
Design/methodology/approach
After a preliminary phase concerning the context analysis, methodology includes three main steps: (i...
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Intellectual Property Protection Mechanisms (IPPMs) include a variety of methods suitable for protecting valuable intangible assets of companies and it is of great relevance to study how companies use these mechanisms to ensure the appropriability of innovation, in a context in which innovation is increasingly open. Indeed, there is a tens...
Technologies are pivotal for firms' success, but also resource consuming. Therefore, managers have to assess and select technologies carefully in order to allocate resources on the most promising ones, grounding their decisions on adequate sets of criteria on which experienced people can express their opinion.This work proposes an application of Mu...
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Focusing on some relevant constructs defined by the open innovation (OI) literature (i.e. determinants of openness; openness choices operationalized in terms of collaboration depth with scientific and business partners; organizational and social context; innovation performance in terms of novelty and efficiency), this paper investigates the...
While it may be reasonably supposed that also FFs could benefit from the opening up of their innovation process, theoretical and empirical works investigating the phenomenon are still scant and they provide controversial suggestions and inconclusive results. Grounding in the socio-emotional theoretical framework and resource-based view theory and b...
This study explores the open innovation (OI) choices in terms of partner-type, their determinants and the related innovation performance in family firms (FFs) with respect to non-FFs by means of a European crosscountry survey. Results show that FFs are in general less open than non-FFs when we consider openness in terms of breadth, while they are m...
The success of the open innovation (OI) paradigm is still debated and literature is searching for its determinants. Although firms’ internal social context is crucial to explain the success or failure of OI practices, such context is still poorly investigated. The aim of the paper is to analyse whether internal social capital (SC), intended as empl...
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Open innovation (OI) literature suggests that firms can improve their innovation performance by learning from a large set of actors in the innovation process. However, the extant literature has overlooked the “who” question: which partners should be included in the different phases of the innovation funnel? How should they be selected? This...
Is opening up the innovation process a "must", or rather an opportunity? This paper discusses whether closed innovation models are still suitable in the era of increasing technological networking, or is some degree of openness actually imposed. Starting from the premises given in the enormous amount of literature on open innovation, this paper inve...
Open innovation literature suggests that firms can improve their innovation performance by learning from different actors and, among them, universities, research institutes and innovation intermediaries can play a relevant role. However, the success of such collaborations is still debated. In particular, the firms' internal organisational context s...
Opening the innovation process represents a new opportunity for small, medium and large firms to increase the internal innovative capacity and to raise their overall innovation performance. Although large firms still realised the higher amount of innovation, few studies have paid attention to open innovation (OI) in small and medium sized enterpris...
Opening the innovation process represents a new opportunity for small, medium and large firms to increase the internal innovative capacity and to raise their overall innovation performance. Although large firms still realised the higher amount of innovation, few studies have paid attention to open innovation (OI) in small and medium sized enterpris...
The success of collaboration between firms and scientific partners is still debated. Although a firm's social context seems to be crucial to explain the success or failure of such collaboration in terms of innovation performance, a deep analysis of the context role is still lacking. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to analyse whether a firm's in...
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– The purpose of this study is to shed further light on determinants of the openness degree to give a more conclusive evidence to the research in the field. In particular, the influence exerted by the technological strategy is still debated, in that evidence on the relationship between the technological strategy and openness is conflicting....
The purpose of the paper is to illuminate the costs and benefits of crossing firm boundaries in inbound open innovation (OI) by determining the relationships among partner types, knowledge content and performance. The empirical part of the study is based on a survey of OI collaborations answered by R&D managers in 415 Italian, Finnish and Swedish f...
Open firms are not equally successful. This is because, in order to benefit from external sources of knowledge, firms must be able to absorb such knowledge. The paper outlines a firm's context as a set of organizational and social features, which may be considered absorptive capacity antecedents. It explores the mediating role of such antecedents i...
The degree of openness in innovation, ranging from closed to different levels of openness, is a key strategic decisions also for family firms (FFs), and therefore it is important to investigate the underlying determinants of openness. In recent years there has been a proliferation of studies on FFs and innovation, where their technology strategy ha...
The subject of this paper is Open Innovation (OI) in the food and drink industry (FDI). Both academics and managers are pushing for improved knowledge in the practice of OI. To this end they have invited researchers to include traditional, low-tech industries in their analyses, since these have been poorly investigated (Gassmann, Enkel, and Chesbro...
Opening the innovation process represents a new opportunity for SMEs to increase the internal innovative capacity and to raise their overall innovation performances. Until today, open innovation in SMEs has been poorly studied, as certified by the high number of papers presenting case studies in large and multinational firms. This paper is aimed at...
Literature suggests that family firms are characterized by specific values and resources (i.e. risk aversion; family identity and SEW preservation; limited cognitive resources; social capital) and that these values/resources exert a role in shaping family firms’ behaviour also as concerns strategic partnering. However, literature recognizes also th...
The paper explores the concept of Open Innovation (OI) and evaluates whether, why and how it is adopted in the automotive field. The study attempts to enrich the existing empirical evidence because few studies about the topic were conducted. With this aim, we studied the experience of three well-known companies operating at different levels in the...
This chapter investigates the topic of how open innovation is actually implemented by companies, according to a conceptual approach in which open and closed models of innovation represent the two extremes of a continuum of different openness degrees; though, these are not the only two possible models. By means of a survey conducted among Italian ma...
This paper describes the experience of Eni, from the awareness of its weakness against external actors (mainly service companies) to the definition of a structured approach to partnership, i.e., Open Innovation (OI), to overcome such weakness. Implementing OI is complex, and the Majors’ position is not easy to change. In particular, the strong appe...
In this paper, the objective is to explore the relationship between intellectual property and open innovation along the innovation process. The study is based upon a literature analysis and a multiple case study involving three Italian companies which adopted an open approach to innovation. As a result, this paper proposes a framework which explain...
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Many companies claim they are adopting an open approach to innovation, but each of them with its own way. This paper aims to explore the different models for opening up the innovation process adopted in practice.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper employs an extended survey among Italian manufacturing companies; cluster analysis; and AN...
Continuous Improvement (CI) has been analysed in the literature from two different perspectives: as a set of practices and processes and as a set of competitive abilities. What is however still lacking is an overall perspective that integrates both practices and abilities and at the same time enables assessing their mutual relations as well as thei...
We could synthesise the content of our contribution by using the following metaphor: who is the best driver? The one who learned to drive with a driving-instructor or a self-taught driver? Out of metaphor: how continuous improvement (CI) should be developed? Is a company that follows a linear approach in the CI development more effective than one t...
Open Innovation (OI) is emerging as a new alternative in opposition to the closed approach: its key tenet is that not all good ideas emerge within organisations and not all good internal ideas can be successfully commercialised by the same firm. In the last years, even with an attention to OI, most researches have focused on theoretical considerati...
This chapter investigates the topic of how open innovation is actually implemented by companies, according to a conceptual approach in which open and closed models of innovation represent the two extremes of a continuum of different openness degrees; though, these are not the only two possible models. By means of a survey conducted among Italian ma...
Purpose
Many companies claim they are adopting an open approach to innovation, but each of them with its own way. This paper aims to explore the different models for opening up the innovation process adopted in practice.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper utilises an extended survey among Italian manufacturing companies, cluster analysis and AN...
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Implementing a performance measurement system (PMS) for research and new product development (R&NPD) is fundamental for supporting decision making but is a challenging task, because effort levels are not measurable and success is highly uncertain. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the design of a PMS in R&NPD in a case study based...
The concept of “Open Innovation” is often studied supposing an artificial dichotomy between closed and open approaches, whilst the idea of exploring different degrees and types of openness in a sort of continuum seems to provide a more interesting and rich avenue to investigate. In vein of these premises, we analyse different open innovation models...
One of the most frequent causes of partial or total failure of an Intranet project is certainly the undervaluation of the importance of the organizational aspects. In fact, most of the companies manage the implementation project in a purely technical perspective without systematically facing the organizational and the change management aspects.Part...
Challenged by competition pressures and the unprecedented pace of change, firms cannot choose anymore whether to concentrate on the needs of today's customers or on the anticipation of tomorrow's needs: they must be excellent at both. This requires managing two related balancing acts: on the one side, being excellent in both the exploitation and ex...
Enterprise 2.0 refers to a set of organizational and technological approaches steered to enable new organization models, based
on open involvement, emergent collaboration, knowledge sharing, internal/external social network development and exploitation.
It aims to respond to the new features and needs of people and boosts flexibility, adaptability...
This article is based on evidence from empirical research conducted by the Observatory of Intranet during 2006. Results refer to 19 case studies carried out in the Italian healthcare sector through direct interviews with the management. The article focuses on the following questions: (1) what are the intranet models (functionalities, services, proc...
Challenged by competition pressures and unprecedented pace of change, firms can no longer choose whether to concentrate on the needs of today's customers or on the anticipation of those of tomorrow: they must be excellent in both. This requires managing two related balancing acts: on the one side, being excellent in both exploitation and exploratio...
This article reports findings of the Italian part of the 2nd International Continuous Improvement (CI) survey, where 440 firms were randomly contacted and 60 responses received (response rate of 13.6%). Three research questions are investigated in this article: the CI tools and enablers adopted in Italy (RQ1); the state of the improvement activitie...
In today's global economy, many economic activities in and among firms are based on the contribution of workers that are mobile or work most of their time in geographically dispersed locations. In such environments, tools supporting Knowledge Management (KM) are essential, not only because of the advantage for business performance, but also because...
Knowledge Management (KM) has become a central theme in today's business environment and a commonly cited source of competitive advantage. In today's global economy, many economic activities in and among firms are based on the contribution of workers that are geographically dispersed and have loose contractual links with the company. Building on ev...
This paper focuses on the effectiveness of Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) in settings characterised by different task uncertainty. Drawing on Perrow's model of technology and structure, four case studies have been developed. User satisfaction is introduced as a proxy for KMS effectiveness and then as a test of the theoretical propositions devel...
Purpose
– Seeks to discuss barriers/drivers to the selection and implementation of different knowledge management configurations in the process of product innovation.
Design/methodology/approach
– Building on literature and the previous survey‐based research results, this study compares on a longitudinal perspective the approaches of two companies...
Knowledge Management (KM) is relatively new but still a very hot topic in management research and practice. Leading companies
are reshaping their organisations in order to increase their ability in managing knowledge sharing and transfer within and
across their organisational boundaries. Since the early 90s’ management literature has progressively...
Knowledge Management (KM) is becoming a growing concern in management research and practice because of its role in determining firm innovation capability and in enhancing working life quality of knowledge workers. This requires, even for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) the creation of a sustainable work organization in terms of configuration of...
Knowledge management (KM) is relatively new, but still a very hot topic in management research and practice. Leading companies are reshaping their organizations in order to increase their ability in managing knowledge sharing and transfer within and across their organizational boundaries. KM is today considered by many scholars the next arena for g...
To survive in the global economy small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have to improve their products and processes exploiting their intellectual capital in a dynamic network of knowledge-intensive relations inside and outside their borders. By erasing traditional constraints to SMEs innovation ability and leveraging their flexibility and responsiven...
In a competitive electricity market, generating companies (GENCOs)
have to sell their output by presenting bids on the market. A pure
operating costs optimization will not be enough as bidding strategies
definition requires GENCO to consider other factors such as market
structure and its interrelationships, demand forecast level and
competitor beha...
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) provide Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) with opportunities that are today in most cases largely unexploited. This paper aims at verifying and explaining this gap with a particular focus on the area of Product Innovation (PI). Patterns in the adoption and use of new ICTs are explored and explaine...
Knowledge Management (KM) has become a central theme in today's business environment and a commonly cited source of competitive advantage. This paper argues that one of the main drivers of knowledge-related organizational problems is the dispersed nature of organizational knowledge. In today's global economy, much of economic activity in and betwee...