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Laursen, Keld

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“…It involves a resource-intensive search to find new combinations of knowledge or technology to exploit. This, however, demands that firms work with and draw data from many actors outside their organization (Hargadon and Sutton 1997;Laursen 2012;Laursen and Salter 2014). In a similar way, political scientists discuss the effectiveness of polycentric or nested collaborations between institutions that can better respond to collective action problems or manage public goods because they involve a heterogeneity of actors cutting across scales and sectors (Andersson and Ostrom 2008;Ostrom 2010).…”

Section: Open and Closed Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Navigating the “paradox of openness” in energy and transport innovation: Insights from eight corporate clean technology research and development case studies

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Abstract:Using an inductive case study approach drawn from original interview data, this article investigates the innovation approaches among a sample of international energy companies, or corporate firms. It first presents a conceptual framework synthesized from the business studies, entrepreneurship, evolutionary economics, innovation studies, management science, organization studies, political science, and sociology literature. This framework suggests that corporate approaches to clean technology innovation will cut across the four dimensions of organizational multiplicity and stakeholder involvement, information sharing, coordination and control, and market orientation. It then explores how eight firms-the Algal Carbon Conversion Flagship and Aurora Algae (biofuel), DONG and Statoil (carbon capture and storage), Tesla and Volkswagen (electric vehicles), and Siemens and Vestas (offshore wind turbines)-approach clean technology development with "open innovation" attributes mixed with "closed" attributes. Although the study finds striking similarities among the particular approaches embraced by each corporate actor, it also notes that approaches are technology and firm specific, and the potential for different permutations leads to an almost endless number of possible stylistic combinations. The innovation profiles depicted also reveal conflict and competition among various stakeholders, the implication being that corporate innovation in the energy sector remains a conflicted, disjointed, and messy process.

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Section: Open and Closed Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Wilson et al (2012: 781) go so far as to write that "directed innovation efforts are strikingly misaligned with the needs of an emissions-constrained world." Gallagher et al (2012) and Sovacool (2009;2012; have echoed similar sentiments criticizing existing patterns of innovation among energy systems and transportation technologies.…”

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Navigating the “paradox of openness” in energy and transport innovation: Insights from eight corporate clean technology research and development case studies

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“…Outra razão é a dificuldade envolvida na transformação de tecnologias em produtos rentáveis pelo fato de abrangerem muitas tecnologias distintas 1 (PATEL; PAVITT, 1997). Como resultado, as firmas utilizam a busca local em detrimento da exploratória (não-local) por ser uma estratégia mais eficiente e vantajosa, além de apresentar custos relativamente mais baixos (LAURSEN, 2012).…”

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“…Essa literatura posterior, ainda que reconheça o fato de que os processos de busca permaneçam predominantemente locais, procura analisar como firmas podem evitar a armadilha da busca local e equilibrar esse modo de busca com a busca exploratória (FLEMING;SORENSON, 2004;LAURSEN, 2012). A mudança de ênfase parte do questionamento da conveniência da busca local em todos os contextos, tanto numa perspectiva teórica quanto empírica, e tende a afirmar que a dependência da busca local pode levar prejuízos às firmas, ou ainda à sua própria extinção.…”

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Mudanças Climáticas Como Um Fator Exógeno Que Afeta O Comportamento De Busca Tecnológica

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2017

Blucher Engineering Proceedings

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ResumoEste artigo tem como objetivo examinar o processo de mudanças climáticas globais como um fator exógeno que modifica o grau e a direção do comportamento de busca tecnológica das firmas. A análise organiza a literatura principal em três níveis principais, da firma, dado o esgotamento tecnológico e a expansão para além de mercados nacionais, do mercado, diante de condições específicas da sua evolução que afetam o seu funcionamento e a distribuição de incentivos, e do sistema, que reflete os estímulos para realização de atividades inovativas a partir de diferentes condições de oportunidade tecnológica. Procura-se demonstrar, a partir da literatura subjacente, que as transformações no ambiente tecnológico promovidas pelas mudanças climáticas constituem um importante fator exógeno capaz de alterar a forma como as firmas conduzem sua atividade de busca tecnológica. Nesse sentido, a contribuição do artigo consiste em relacionar essas transformações em três níveis principais, de forma a extrapolar os limites setoriais, tecnológicos e geográficos dos estudos existentes.Palavras-chave: Mudanças climáticas; busca tecnológica; exploração e explotação. CLIMATE CHANGE AS AN EXOGENOUS TRIGGERS AFFECTING THE TECHNOLOGICAL SEARCH BEHAVIOR AbstractThis paper aims to examine the process of global climate change as an exogenous trigger that modifies the level and direction of the firms' technological search behavior. The analysis organizes the main literature on three main levels, the firm, given the technological exhaustion and expansion beyond national markets, the market, given specific conditions of its evolution affecting its operation and the distribution of incentives, and the system, which reflects the stimuli for carrying out innovative activities from different technological opportunity conditions. The paper seeks to demonstrate, from the underlying literature, that the transformations in the technological environment promoted by the climatic changes are an important exogenous factor capable of changing the way in which companies lead their technological search activity. In this sense, the contribution of the article is to relate these transformations to three main levels, in order to extrapolate the sectorial, technological and geographical limits of the existing studies.

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“…Broadly, innovative search can be considered search for knowledge that will support new product or service development. It derives from the behavioural theory of the firm (Cyert & March 1963) and later, evolutionary economics (Nelson & Winter 1982), which has made search a prominent theoretical explanation of how the innovation processes of firms unfold (Laursen, 2012). There are three classic types of search.…”

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confidence: 99%

Novel product innovation in project-based firms: explaining innovation where interdependent firms deliver complex system-level outcomes

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Project-based firms (PBFs) are an increasingly important firm type in today's projectdriven world. Over the next two decades, PBFs will transform nearly $60 trillion into complex product systems (CoPS) that comprise the communication, energy, and transportation infrastructure of our modern global economy. In the process, they will participate in a collective technological development process that is iterative, intensely interorganisational, and dominated by their participation in large industry projects. In this environment, PBFs will deliver components, subsystems, and CoPS, some being novel products that are new to the world. These are called CoPS-related novel products.However, the current understanding of how PBFs introduce CoPS-related novel products is lacking. In general, the existing innovation literature does not provide an adequate inter-organisational perspective, which is necessary to explain the development of new The CoPS innovation literature itself remains too focused on the role of large system integrators, and not on the broader network of firms that support innovation. This leaves unscrutinised rest of the 'project-based productive network' of firms delivering products (components, technologies, and subsystems) into the higher-level CoPS. Taken together, the current literature inadequately addresses many factors that are important to novel product innovation in PBFs. Therefore, the central research question this thesis aims to answer is: What factors facilitate PBFs' ability to introduce novel product innovations in environments where interdependent firms deliver complex system-level outcomes?Three specific challenges are imperative to understanding novel product introduction in PBFs. The first relates to the project-based nature of organising, which means that PBFs have contingent opportunities for novel product innovation, depending upon the circumstances of the projects they conduct. This is called the contingent opportunities problem. The second challenge is that PBFs have to ensure that their innovations are compatible with our technologies in their environment. This is called the technological interdependencies problem. The third challenge is that PBFs have enduring interorganisational commitments that extend across the projects they conduct. This is called the enduring relationships problem.ii Novel product innovation in project-based firms Three research studies were designed and conducted to address the three specific challenges. The research is based on survey data collected from PBFs in the Australian upstream oil and gas industry. Study 1 investigates capabilities that PBFs use to overcome the contingent opportunities problems. This study finds that firms use an adaptive problemsolving capability to recognise opportunities within projects, and are reliant on networking capabilities to bring about novel product innovations. Study 2 investigates how PBFs use both inbound and outbound non-pecuniary open innovation practices to resolve technological interdependencies. This stud...

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Keep searching and you'll find: what do we know about variety creation through firms' search activities for innovation?

Cited by 240 publications

References 158 publications

Navigating the “paradox of openness” in energy and transport innovation: Insights from eight corporate clean technology research and development case studies

Navigating the “paradox of openness” in energy and transport innovation: Insights from eight corporate clean technology research and development case studies

Mudanças Climáticas Como Um Fator Exógeno Que Afeta O Comportamento De Busca Tecnológica

Novel product innovation in project-based firms: explaining innovation where interdependent firms deliver complex system-level outcomes

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