A conceptual approach to modelling the success of communities of innovation

Mühlhaus, Daniel; Weiber, Rolf; Kim, Jin-Suk; Hyun, Jae Hoon

doi:10.1080/14783363.2012.669543

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“…Questions asked at this stage of the research included “How does the university facilitate the formation of innovative groups and support them?” Five drivers thus identified to influence the success of CoI were corporate culture, money and time, intellectual property (IP) management, motivation, knowledge facilitators, activists and maintenance, and opportunity to interact. The drivers we identified from our research are in line with the research on innovation champions by Coakes and Smith (2007), networking by Abereijo et al (2007), interaction platform for development and communication by Muhlhaus et al (2012), leadership, social, technological and managerial practices by Agolla and Van Lill (2016). As our research involved the use of interviews we were able to contribute a deeper innovators’ perspective on these drivers of community innovation.…”

Section: Drivers Of Community Innovationsupporting

confidence: 78%

“…Research on drivers of community innovation on the macro level emphasize government policy, patent sharing and networking (Abereijo et al , 2007; Mattioli, 2012; Elia et al , 2016). Taking a more holistic approach in their study of online communities, Muhlhaus et al (2012) suggest that to have successful CoI it is important on the macro level to provide an interaction platform for development and communication and on the micro level to select and finance project leaders to promote certain projects within the CoI. Forsman and Temel (2016), in studying 708 Finnish firms with fewer than 50 employees to explore the patterns of networking benefits gained through collaboration, find that organizations should shift the focus of innovation policies from innovations to innovators.…”

Section: Drivers Of Innovation and Community Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Communities of innovation

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2019

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Purpose This paper aims to increase our understanding of the nature and role of communities within organizations with regard to innovation management, the drivers of community innovation and macro-processes of community innovation management. Design/methodology/approach The authors first use an inductive qualitative technique to analyze data gathered from a UK university to build up the concept of communities of innovation and then refine the concept of communities of innovation by contrasting it to the more established literature on communities of practice. Finally, with the aid of existing literature on collaborative innovation and the innovation processes, the authors induce from the data the drivers of community innovation and the three macro-processes of community innovation management. Findings The research findings suggest communities of innovation play a central and pivotal role in contributing to the generation of innovations within organizations. Drivers of innovation included corporate culture, money and time, intellectual property management, motivation, knowledge facilitators, activists and maintenance and opportunities to interact. The three macro-processes of community innovation management are identified as divergence management, gateway management and convergence management. Research limitations/implications As this is an exploratory research into communities of innovation, all the 11 communities of innovation analyzed belong to ABC University. It is necessary to expand on this research within the education industry, as well as into other industries to further test the reliability of the findings in this paper. Practical implications Business executives who have a better understanding of communities of innovation, the drivers of community innovation and the macro-processes of community innovation management will be better able to promote innovation within their organizations. Social implications Governments that have a better understanding of communities of innovation, the drivers of innovation and the macro-processes of community innovation management will be better able to promote innovation within their countries. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is one of the first research studies attempting to understand communities of innovation and the macro-processes of community innovation management.

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Section: Drivers Of Community Innovationsupporting

confidence: 78%

Section: Drivers Of Innovation and Community Innovationmentioning

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Communities of innovation

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2019

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“…The multilevel perspective also assumes the three levels (Figure 2) are somewhat distinguishable in group clusters either by participation, role or interest. However, we find there is no analysis of interactions and influences among these levels (Mühlhaus et al, 2012). With this understanding, we suggest that our colleagues and scholars reflect on whether lack of multilevel distinction presents more opportunity or less relevance to their research.…”

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confidence: 70%

“…The multilevel perspective presents a view of communities first as social systems of innovation. Second, it introduces a new meso level of analysis to trace influences of innovation diffusion, where alternately extant research represents micro processes and macro level outcomes (Mühlhaus et al, 2012). Lastly, it demonstrates interchange between levels in a community with open boundaries and resulting fluid interaction in groups.…”

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confidence: 99%

Emerging interstices in communities of innovation

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Their evolving independence exhibits purpose and progress of the individuals in them. However, research on community innovation is disparate, with literature enshrouded in macroperspectives of a firm's largest external source of innovation. Utilizing critical interpretive synthesis, we uncover three dominant perspectives in literature on community innovation-namely, outside-in, epistemic and competitive. We then propose a multilevel perspective of communities to explore three levels of innovation context. In closing, we examine a missing mesoperspective in literature and present four dynamic stages of exchange in communities-(i) convergence and design, (ii) interaction, (iii) interchange and (iv) productive synergy. With this final and main contribution, we apply a conceptual multilevel perspective to the same sample of 132 articles, previously used to demonstrate the three dominant macroperspectives. In doing so, we reconceptualize diversified knowledge in community literature and acknowledge the innovation context of independent individuals and groups in the community. We hope that scholars of open innovation use variations of the multilevel perspective for further theory construction as a lens into the context of innovation for individual, group and community innovation outcomes. The interconnectivity brought by these levels also creates challenges and opportunities for practitioners, wishing to engage with or design online communities to influence individual, group and community outcomes and motivations.

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Der Qualitäts-Dreisprung – Ein konzeptioneller Ansatz zur Verbesserung des Qualitätsmanagement bei Dienstleistungen durch Social Media

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2013

Dienstleistungsmanagement Und Social Media

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A conceptual approach to modelling the success of communities of innovation

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Communities of innovation

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Emerging interstices in communities of innovation

Der Qualitäts-Dreisprung – Ein konzeptioneller Ansatz zur Verbesserung des Qualitätsmanagement bei Dienstleistungen durch Social Media

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