Sustainable Innovation: A Competitive Advantage for Innovation Ecosystems

Innovation Ecosystem for Sustainable Business Model Development: Practical Insights

“…By their meaning the sustainable innovations work as catalysts for cleaner production, meeting societal challenges in both the short and future, encompassing economic and environmental targets in local and global dimensions. These innovations underpin sustainable development integrating the system approach and relying upon the local and specialized networks, local communities, and company sustainability index (Oksanen, 2015;Adner, 2006). Therefore, it can be stated that the innovation ecosystem is a network of relationships combining actors and objects that establish connections, both complementary and substitute reinforcing the importance of the institutions and also the environment, providing information and knowledge flows through systems important to ensure co-creation and enhance sustainability (Adner, 2006).…”

Education Reforms for Equity and Quality: An Analysis from an Educational Ecosystem Perspective with Reference to Finnish Educational Transformations

“…The ecosystem concept has emerged in many disciplines, such as medicine and healthcare (Kahn et al, 2012;Walpole et al, 2016) and the social sciences (Oksanen & Hautamäki, 2015;Schwind et al, 2016), as well as in educational discussions (Niemi, 2016(Niemi, , 2021aNiemi et al, 2014). Ecosystems have also been used in technological contexts to describe the importance of different partners working together (Moore, 2006).…”

Orchestrating Innovation Ecosystems: A Qualitative Analysis of Ecosystem Positioning Strategies

“…Thus, the borders of innovation ecosystem are even fuzzier than the borders of business ecosystem given that they are more dynamic, with actors, roles, and interlinkages changing constantly (Valkokari et al, 2016). Hence, the most recent innovation studies point out that discussions about closed national innovation systems are rather factitious: new innovations are actually generated in global settings (Viitanen, 2016;Oksanen & Hautamäki, 2015). If an innovation ecosystem is to be defined more extensively -by more than business relationships or national borders -one of the key challenges is determine how it can be formed through shared sense-making and by the cognitive construction of the ecosystem participants, (in line with the cognitive model of strategic groups introduced by Reger and Huff (1993).…”