Assessment of the advancement of market-upstream innovations and of the performance of research and innovation projects

Klessova, Svetlana; Engell, Sebastian; Thomas, Catherine

doi:10.1016/j.technovation.2022.102495

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“…This research is part of a larger study that takes a deep dive into multi-actor R&D projects (Klessova et al, 2020(Klessova et al, , 2022a(Klessova et al, , 2022b. The research design is an exploratory multiple case study (Eisenhardt, 1989).…”

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“…The increase of the challenges, as described in Sections 5.1, strongly affected the resources that are necessary to raise the maturity level (TRL), as described in (Klessova et al, 2022b), the time needed for the advancement, leading to the need to cope with business decisions of the end-users and thus with prioritisation of developments.…”

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“…when going to higher TRL (Mankins, 2009; Olechowski et al, 2020). For the same targeted TRL, the relative increase of the efforts is comparable across different technologies in similar domains (Klessova et al, 2022b). Maturation implies changes in the implementation environment but also a decrease of the technological risk (Mankins, 2009), an increase of the time needed for maturation (Kenley and El‐Khoury, 2012), the need for user involvement (Bogers and Horst, 2013), an increasing dependency on the socio‐technical infrastructure, markets, policies and regulations (Nakamura et al, 2012) and leads to a different balance of cost and risks (Cooper and Kleinschmidt, 2007; Héder, 2017; Webster and Gardner, 2019).…”

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“…Maturation implies changes in the implementation environment but also a decrease of the technological risk (Mankins, 2009), an increase of the time needed for maturation (Kenley and El‐Khoury, 2012), the need for user involvement (Bogers and Horst, 2013), an increasing dependency on the socio‐technical infrastructure, markets, policies and regulations (Nakamura et al, 2012) and leads to a different balance of cost and risks (Cooper and Kleinschmidt, 2007; Héder, 2017; Webster and Gardner, 2019). It usually is more complex to ‘push’ a physical and digital technology towards higher levels of maturity compared to developing a purely digital one (Klessova et al, 2022b).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Extant literature investigated the role of contextual conditions in R&D processes across different settings (Daniel and Klein, 2014), but it has not yet been analysed yet how, why, and to which extent the advancement of the degree of technological maturity, which is usually measured by the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) scale (Mankins, 2009; Héder, 2017; Olechowski et al, 2020; Klessova et al, 2022b), interplays with the evolution of the non‐technical contextual conditions during the R&D process of the same technology involving the same organisational actors.…”

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This paper analyses the evolution of the contextual conditions during the advancement of the degree of technological maturity of innovative technical solutions and their interplay with the R&D processes in the setting of collaborative inter‐organisational publicly‐funded R&D projects. Extant literature investigated the role of contextual conditions for the development process of technologies across different settings, but the evolution of their role has not yet been analysed in detail during the same development process over different levels of maturity. It has also not been investigated how the inter‐organisational collaboration is affected by this interplay. To address this gap, we put in place exploratory qualitative research in the empirical setting of collaborative inter‐organisational R&D projects that were funded by the EU's Research and Innovation Framework Programmes. Such projects often advance the maturity of several new technical solutions in different constellations of partners within the same project and therefore provide rich data for our analysis. The research design is a comparative multiple case study. We studied 5 projects that developed 49 innovative technical solutions, adopting a grounded theory approach, through the analysis of the project documentation and semi‐structured interviews. The evolution of the non‐technical contextual conditions and their interplay with the R&D processes and the inter‐organisational collaboration were found to be similar across different technologies, but their role was significantly different at different stages of the advancement of maturity. Medium TRLs constituted a watershed for inter‐organisational cooperation, whereas when going to higher TRLs, the role of the intra‐organisational context became dominant. As a consequence, the changes of the contextual conditions should be anticipated by project planners and project managers to avoid that the R&D processes get stuck at medium technology readiness levels. We also discuss the implications for policy interventions when reaching higher TRLs is intended.

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