Developing an approach to measure innovation performance in collaborative networks

Abstract

Innovation is often addressed to be the result of collaborative network settings. Yet it remains difficult to provide proof in hard measurement data. Mainly motivated by practicability of data collection the paper proposes the "innovation alley" as a measurement approach. We discuss its conceptual and theoretical assumptions, first with a view on the network or mezo-Ievel of analysis, second by presenting a longitudinal process basic structure which is well in line with existing product development management knowledge. We then elicit conceptual links to entrepreneurship for methodological reasons of measuring innovation performance. The "innovation alley" model is structured as a theoretical process of six steps with indicators at every stage to collect data on innovation performance. We include very specific network agents such as the ESNC and the concept of Living Labs in our model to evaluate their role and performance in the overall innovation process.

The Impact of Living Lab Methodology on Open Innovation Contributions and Outcomes

“…However, only very few studies try to assess the impact of the methodological design of living lab projects (Veeckman et al, 2013). For living labs, there generally is a gap in measurement systems; as Katzy and Turgut (2010) state, a valid research methodology still 9 www.timreview.ca…”