Exaptation dynamics and entrepreneurial performance: evidence from the internet video industry

Ching, Kenny

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“…The literature on disruption tends to focus on established ecosystems, such as that of semiconductor technologies, over several generations (Adner and Kapoor, 2016). While disruption may create uncharted markets and form new innovation ecosystems, little is known about how such ecosystems form and what role exaptation can play in them (Bonifati, 2010;Ching, 2016). To address this gap, we examine the ecosystem that has formed around three-dimensional printing (3DP) -a digital innovation.…”

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Exaptation in a digital innovation ecosystem: The disruptive impacts of 3D printing

2020

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This research investigates disruptive innovation through the under-explored relationship between two ecological concepts, exaptation and ecosystems. Exaptation-driven innovation involves exploiting unintended latent functions of pre-existing technologies. Digital innovation ecosystems account for industry-spanning co-operative and competitive dynamics among firms related to innovations that combine physical and digital elements, such as 3D printing. In this work the evolution of the 3D printing ecosystem is traced over four decades, from the first patents-presented as exaptation-driven innovations-to the present threat of disruption to established manufacturing. Through a longitudinal narrative study of the formation and growth of this ecosystem, a four-phase process model is developed. This addresses gaps in the exaptation and disruptive innovation literatures with respect to innovation ecosystems. The implications for theory are that disruption requires an appropriate supporting ecosystem, but ecosystems take on a life of their own, so cultivating a healthy ecosystem means sowing the seeds of disruption within that ecosystem. For practice, this research highlights the managerial challenges of predicting disruption by exaptation-driven innovations and the constant competition for niches within ecosystems. For policy, it outlines implications concerning how best to support new innovation ecosystems and cultivate exaptation opportunities.

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2020

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“…Moreover, our approach gives scholars a base to assess the importance of exaptation in innovation. With a few exceptions (Cattani 2005, Ching 2016, Mastrogiorgio and Gilsing 2016, the research methods utilized so far are mostly qualitative and rely on anecdotal examples. They are therefore unable to provide a scale of the phenomenon.…”

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Measuring Exaptation and Its Impact on Innovation, Search, and Problem Solving

Andriani

Ali

Mastrogiorgio

2017

Organization Science

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“…Such practices make families and communities less exclusively reliant on the main farming activity, while providing new avenues for income as a hedge against cyclical pressure on the core farming business ( Alsos et al, 2014 ; Carter, 1998 , 2001 ). Processes of bricolage and exaptation are central to these well-documented processes ( Gaddefors et al, 2020 ; Garud et al, 2018 ); yet, unlike exaptation in the technological domain ( Andriani and Cattani, 2016 ; Ching, 2016 ; Dew and Sarasvathy, 2016 ; Garud et al, 2016 ), diversification in the rural context provides the means to establish resilience in the local economy wherein the value is determined as much by system-level resilience as by profitability or the resource-use efficiency of entrepreneurial enterprises. While rural contexts are uniquely informative on these points, there are similar contextual anecdotes emanating from urban areas that provide similarly compelling insights (see Hunt et al, 2019 ), though they are often more difficult to translate to resource-constrained and infrastructure-poor locales.…”

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COVID-19 and the importance of space in entrepreneurship research and policy

Korsgaard

Hunt²,

Townsend

et al. 2020

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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Given the COVID-19 crisis, the importance of space in the global economic system has emerged as critical in a hitherto unprecedented way. Even as large-scale, globally operating digital platform enterprises find new ways to thrive in the midst of a crisis, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) nestled in local economies have proven to be fragile to shocks, causing countless local economies to unravel in the face of severe challenges to survival. Here, we discuss the role of entrepreneurship in re-building local economies that are more resilient. Specifically, we take a spatial perspective and highlight how the COVID-19 crisis has uncovered problems in the current tendency for thin contextualisation and promotion of globalisation. Based on this critique, we outline new perspectives for thinking about the relationship between entrepreneurship, resilience and local economies. Here, a particular emphasis is given to resilience building through deeply contextualised policies and research, localised flows of products and labour, and the diversification of local economies.

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Exaptation dynamics and entrepreneurial performance: evidence from the internet video industry

Abstract: This paper explores entrepreneurial strategy by analyzing the Internet video industry.

Cited by 18 publications

References 32 publications

Exaptation in a digital innovation ecosystem: The disruptive impacts of 3D printing

Exaptation in a digital innovation ecosystem: The disruptive impacts of 3D printing

Measuring Exaptation and Its Impact on Innovation, Search, and Problem Solving

COVID-19 and the importance of space in entrepreneurship research and policy

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