Absorptive capacity for radical innovation: A case study in the semiconductor industry

Masson, Pascal Le; Cogez, Patrick; Felk, Yacine; Weil, Benoît

doi:10.1109/itmc.2011.5996032

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“…It is established that creativity and the capacity to imagine can also produce innovations. Thinking out of the box is helpful in avoiding so-called fixations (Agogué et al, 2011;Hatchuel et al, 2011;Jansson & Smith, 1991), so today, it is a critical capacity for radical innovation, a new form of absorptive capacity (Le Masson et al, 2012aMasson et al, , 2012b. Moreover, knowledge sharing is often critically linked to confidentiality or IP issues; sharing questions and unsolved problems is paradoxically easier.…”

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Explicating the role of innovation intermediaries in the “unknown”: a contingency approach

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Innovation intermediaries have become key actors in open innovation contexts. Research has improved our understanding of the managerial challenges inherent to intermediation in situations in which problems are rather well-defined. Yet, in some open innovation situations, the relevant actor networks may not be known, there may be no clear common interest, or severe problems may exist with no legitimate common place where they can be discussed. This paper contributes to the research on innovation intermediaries by showing how intermediaries address managerial challenges related to a high degree of unknown. We draw upon the extant literature to highlight the common core functions of different types of intermediaries. We then introduce the "degree of unknown" as a new contingency variable for the analysis of the role of intermediaries for each of these core functions. We illustrate the importance of this new variable with four empirical case studies in in different industries and countries in which intermediaries are experiencing situations of high level of unknown. We highlight the specific managerial principles that the four intermediaries applied in creating an environment for collective innovation. Therefore, we clarify what intermediation in the unknown may entail.

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Explicating the role of innovation intermediaries in the “unknown”: a contingency approach

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Multiple Forms of Applications and Impacts of a Design Theory: 10 Years of Industrial Applications of C-K Theory

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Impact of Design Research on Industrial Practice

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C-K theory has been developed by Armand Hatchuel and Benoit Weil and then by other researchers since 1990s. In this paper we show that its very abstract nature and its high degree of universality actually supported a large variety of industrial applications. We distinguish three types of applications: 1) C-K theory provides a new language, that supports new analysis and descriptive capacity and new teachable individual models of thoughts; 2) C-K theory provides a very general framework to better characterize the validity domain and the performance conditions of existing methods, leading to potential improvement of these methods; 3) C-K theory is the conceptual model at the root of new design methods that are today largely used in the industry. To this end, we build on the work done by (Agogué and Kazakçi 2013). We gathered all the publications in blind peer-reviewed journals, as well as books, thesis, book chapters, conference papers with peer-reviews on abstracts and/or full papers and we analyzed the material regarding the four dimensions mentioned above. In this paper we don"t want to describe all this material but we shall favor some cases where we were directly involved and for which we are more competent. We completed our data collection with interviews and feedbacks from students and practitioners who applied C-K methodologies and tools.

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Designing the Innovative Design Regime—C-K Based Organizations

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Absorptive capacity for radical innovation: A case study in the semiconductor industry

Cited by 4 publications

References 47 publications

Explicating the role of innovation intermediaries in the “unknown”: a contingency approach

Explicating the role of innovation intermediaries in the “unknown”: a contingency approach

Multiple Forms of Applications and Impacts of a Design Theory: 10 Years of Industrial Applications of C-K Theory

Designing the Innovative Design Regime—C-K Based Organizations

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