Researching ecosystems in innovation contexts

Service Innovation in Industrial Contexts

Both academics and practitioners emphasize the importance for product firms of pursuing service innovation. Despite a strategic focus on service-led growth, however, many firms struggle to succeed with their service innovation initiatives. In order to increase our understanding of the nature of service innovation in product firms, this chapter discusses the specificities in, and dynamics of, se...

Researching “construction Client and Innovation”: Methodological Perspective

It is generally accepted that innovation is the implementation of significantly new processes, products or management approaches in order to increase efficiency. Clients or users of products, processes or services are being identified as potential sources of innovation in research conducted in various sectors (e.g. IT, aviation, and laboratory equipment). At present there is concern regarding t...

Icts in Contexts: Reporting Research from Researching Researchers' Reports

Orality and literacy Orality and literacy Orality and literacy Orality and literacy In Walter Ong's classic study Orality and Literacy, he shows how writing is not just a tool but a way of life. I suppose the primary aim of the book is to describe the nature of oral societies, but I have always seen it as the story of how we – in our modern literal societies-have become what we are. I have cont...

Social Media and Innovation Ecosystems

Growth and Innovation in Platform Ecosystems

A large and growing portion of the economy transpires within software platforms. These environments are bounded high growth economies that embed many novel features: the platform owner sets rules for participation; R&D occurs rapidly, with generations of innovations building on one another; there are profit and adoption tradeoffs in open versus closed code. This paper introduces and develops a ...