Robert Van der Have

• Doctor of Philosophy
• PostDoc Position at Aalto University

While the adoption of Social Innovation (SI) in the governance and policy domain has fueled a rapidly expanding scholarly literature, this field has become characterized by conceptual ambiguity and a diversity of definitions and research settings. This present situation inhibits the integration of findings. This paper traces the content, scope a...

Being able to launch new products internationally is critical for technology-based ventures to recoup the high costs of R&D and to exploit their innovations fully. Despite the widely recognized importance of networks within the innovation development process, there appear to be contrasting viewpoints as to whether local or foreign network partners...

There is a considerable amount of discussion, but still no consensus, about which indicator should be used to measure innovation. To participate in this debate, a unique innovation database, SFINNO, is introduced. Innovation counts from the database are used as the baseline, to which individual proxy indicators (patent- and research and development...

Paper presented at the 2010 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC). Forthcoming in: Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2010

Paper presented at the 2010 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC)

This paper investigates the development of heavy duty electric battery vehicles through analysing research papers and patents and identifies emerging technology areas by using a generative probabilistic model, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). The focus of the analysis is on literature and patents published since 2010 up to date, summing up altoge...

The speed of innovation is one central part of achieving competitive advantage. However, other than affecting the rate, type and sales of product innovations, we do not understand much of why technological search can translate into innovation performance. This paper aims to bridge this gap by considering how the exploration (breadth) and exploitati...

Roles, effectiveness, and impact of VTT Towards broad-based impact monitoring of a research and technology organisation

Service activities are important in most of today's businesses. For this reason, decision makers need to place emphasis on service-oriented development and service innovations, as well as knowledge transfer and the sharing of service business-related capabilities to increase their competitiveness. This study sheds light on the processes and dynamic...

Innovation is widely believed to play a key role for the survival and competitiveness of firms. The significance of innovation has been stressed increasingly among academics in recent decades, and policy-makers and practitioners have rather pervasively adopted the view. Nowadays, continuous renewal by firms is considered as an essential organizatio...

Research on innovations and innovative activity has been applying different sources of information to help in understanding the phenomenon and to investigate various research questions related to it. As the field of innovation studies is quite broad, incorporating various research topics which, in addition, can be approached from various perspectiv...

Apart from having a dominating share of GDP in the developed, present-day economic landscape (Preissl, 1997), services have also been highly associated with economic growth (Kravis et al., 1983). Apart from their share, services thus form an increasingly important part of economic activity for further economic advancement. Moreover, there is a grow...

VTT Working Papers 134 Task 1 of the GoReNEST project presented an analytical comprehensive framework of the system transition approach. In spite of that the system transition approach has some commonalities with innovation and energy systems and policies of Nordic countries, only few studies have applied this approach in Nordic countries. Accordin...

System transitions are complex societal co-evolutionary processes that are typically led by gradual adaptation rather than visionary management or coordination. Still, visionary coordination of policies, regulation, corporate strategies and social learning may overcome some barriers and foster new innovation efforts providing sufficient impetus tow...

This conceptual paper aims to increase our understanding of service innovation by separating and analyzing some of its basic dimensions: the target of the renewal, the nature of the renewal, and the radicalness of the renewal. Service innovations are discussed both at the product level and at the firm level. In innovation literature, the product le...

System transitions are complex societal co-evolutionary processes that are typically led by gradual adaptation rather than visionary management or coordination. Still, visionary coordination of policies, regulation, corporate strategies and social learning may overcome some barriers and foster new innovation efforts providing sufficient impetus tow...

The Sfinno database provides micro-level insight into the wider processes of industrial renewal and technological change through individual innovations and innovation processes in Finnish businesses. In particular, the goal was to identify innovative companies, innovations, and longitudinal as well as sectoral patterns of innovations. Download the...

The Sfinno database provides micro-level insight into the wider processes of industrial renewal and technological change through individual innovations and innovation processes in Finnish businesses. In particular, the goal was to identify innovative companies, innovations, and longitudinal as well as sectoral patterns of innovations.

In his pioneering writings, Schumpeter identified five different types (cases) of innovation, which in modern terms are product, process, market, input and organisational innovations. This paper discusses the applicability of these innovation types in services a sector which was not yet topical in Schumpeter's time. We use two kinds of empirical ma...

VTT Working Papers 135 This working paper is produced for the purposes of the GoReNEST project. The overall aim of the GoReNEST project is to present an analytical system transition framework as a potential tool for supporting the Nordic energy system transition, its governance and related policy-making. The MLP transition management approach was u...