Which One Triggers the Other? Technological or Social Innovation

Bulut, Çağrı; Eren, Hakan; Halaç, Duygu Seçkin

doi:10.1080/10400419.2013.843358

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“…Recently, Bulut et al (2013) examined the causal relationship between technological and social innovation, establishing a close relationship between the two concepts. Recently, Bulut et al (2013) examined the causal relationship between technological and social innovation, establishing a close relationship between the two concepts.…”

Section: Social Innovation and Innovation Typology Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite the prominence that social innovation is gaining, there are still only a very limited number of studies linking innovation typology and characteristics with this new approach. Recently, Bulut et al (2013) examined the causal relationship between technological and social innovation, establishing a close relationship between the two concepts. The well-known innovation classification developed by the Oslo Manual (2005) has received most academic attention, while the boundaries of social innovation are yet to be established.…”

Section: Social Innovation and Innovation Typology Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Testing the Social Innovation Construct: An Empirical Approach to Align Socially Oriented Objectives, Stakeholder Engagement, and Environmental Sustainability

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Peiró-Signes

Garrigós

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Innovation is not just an economic and or technological tool; it is also a social phenomenon. This paper draws together the concepts of creating shared value, the stakeholder theory, and socially oriented innovation to research companies' decisions on asserting socially related objectives when innovating. We examine the extent to which this decision process is bounded by constraints related to information and the characteristics of innovation. To perform this study we used a dataset that monitors the innovation activities of companies. This study offers an empirical analysis of the influence on firms' social innovation orientation. The empirical analysis supports the theoretical framework and identifies the firm's community links as key factors in developing new innovations, process and product-oriented, which have an impact on the social-innovation orientation of the firm. Additionally, it shows how the setting up of social goals when innovating is affected by the information source and the innovation mode being developed.There is a relationship between the creation process (represented by the product and process orientation) and the human-centered focus, represented by the social innovation construct, as highlighted by Brown and Wyatt (2010), confirming the first and second hypotheses.Specifically, the research findings show that the social innovation orientation within a company is influenced by two types of innovation-oriented activities: process-and product-oriented, and that the source of ideas for process and product innovation can be traced to information sources related to the firms' close environment, including clients and customers, their staff, and competitors and firms from the same industry, and the firm's local and close links. This explains how looking for the benefits of the close environment will also benefit the company and vice versa, as the main idea of the stakeholders theory claims (Freeman, 1984).This social innovation construct is based on six objectives: health, safety, employment, sustainability, growth, and environmental concerns (the model was tested on more than 5900 Spanish companies). Thus, it can be expected that firms looking for costs reduction on energy or waste consumption, process improvements, etc., might also be considering increasing or maintaining their market position and therefore their employment. Similarly, companies that search for new markets and products and aim to increase their market share are trying to maintain or increase their competitive position, and consequently their employment level.Moreover, the social-innovation model considers that the internal sources and the information from customers, competitors, consultants, commercial labs, and private R&D institutes are important drivers of both process and product orientation. It can be expected that other sources of information will have a relevant impact and elucidate companies' process and product orientation when innovating. On the other hand, the higher weightings in the model for sources such as customer...

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Section: Social Innovation and Innovation Typology Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Social Innovation and Innovation Typology Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Testing the Social Innovation Construct: An Empirical Approach to Align Socially Oriented Objectives, Stakeholder Engagement, and Environmental Sustainability

Segarra‐Oña

Peiró-Signes

Garrigós

et al. 2016

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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“…Uygulama alanında ortaya koyduğu değişikliklerle uyumlu olarak yenilik, söz konusu dört sınıflamanın detaylandırılması ve çeşitlendirilmesi (sosyal, yönetsel vb.) ile farklı şekillerde de sınıflandırılabilmektedir (Bulut, Eren ve Halaç, 2013). Camisón ve Villar-López (2014), teknolojik yeniliğin, ürün ve süreç yeniliklerini, teknolojik olmayan yeniliklerin ise pazarlama ve organizasyonel yenilikleri kapsadığını vurgulamaktadır.…”

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Fi̇rma İçi̇ Ve Dişi Kaynaklarin Organi̇zasyonel Yeni̇li̇k Geli̇şti̇rmedeki̇ Etki̇leri̇

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2015

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Öz Firmaların değer ve rekabet avantajı yaratma çabaları için yenilik çok önemlidir. Yeniliğin faydalarından istifade etmeyi ve başka yenilikler yapılmasını teşvik eden bir koruma aracı olan patentin firmaların ekonomik performansları üzerine bir etkisi olup olmadığı Türkiye'deki firmaların verileri üzerinden analiz edilmiştir. Patent sayısı ile firmaların istihdam artırma becerileri ve ihracat arasında istatistiksel olarak güçlü bir ilişki bulunmuştur. Firmaların kısa vadede olumsuz finansal performansı noktasında ise belli faktörler sebebi ile gecikmeli bir etkinin olabileceği düşünülmektedir. Abstract: Innovation is very important for companies to create value and competitive advantage. Whether there is an effect on the economic performance of firms the effect of patent, which is a safeguard tool that helps to benefit from innovations and encourages making other innovations, has been analyzed through the data of companies in Turkey. A statistically significant relationship was found between the number of patents and the firms' ability to increase employment and exports. In terms of negative financial performance in the short term, it is thought that firms may have a delayed effect due to certain factors.

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“…An extensive debate is emerging in the literature about the meaning of Social Innovation (SI), while empirical studies are relatively few (Caulier-Grice et al, 2012;Bulut et al, 2013;Howaldt and Schwarz, 2010). Nowadays, a large percentage of innovative solutions come from information technology (IT) applications and tools.…”

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“…Nowadays, a large percentage of innovative solutions come from information technology (IT) applications and tools. Bulut et al (2013) investigate the emergence of SI from a social perspective and examine the causal relationships between SI and technological innovation. Moreover, they shed light on the "relativity" of SI, and the fact that it is oblique to different geographical and socio-economic activities (which suggests it is important to understand how SI initiatives develop and grow based on cross-industry flows of opportunities and cross-scale processes).…”

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Digital Technologies for Social Innovation: An Empirical Recognition on the New Enablers

Maiolini

Marra

Baldassarri³

et al. 2016

Journal of Technology Management & Innovation

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Even though scholars' attention has been placed on Social Innovation (SI), little evidence has been provided with regards to which tools are actually used to address social needs and foster Social Innovation initiatives. The purpose of the article is twofold. Firstly, the article offers empirical recognition to SI by investigating, on a large-scale, social and innovative activities conducted by start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the world between 2001 and 2014. Secondly, the article intends to capture SI core businesses and underlying complementarities between products, markets, and technologies and show in which way digital media and IT are essentially tracing innovation trajectories over a multitude of industries, leading the current industrial patterns of SI, and continually fostering its cross-industry nature.

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Which One Triggers the Other? Technological or Social Innovation

Cited by 27 publications

References 43 publications

Testing the Social Innovation Construct: An Empirical Approach to Align Socially Oriented Objectives, Stakeholder Engagement, and Environmental Sustainability

Testing the Social Innovation Construct: An Empirical Approach to Align Socially Oriented Objectives, Stakeholder Engagement, and Environmental Sustainability

Fi̇rma İçi̇ Ve Dişi Kaynaklarin Organi̇zasyonel Yeni̇li̇k Geli̇şti̇rmedeki̇ Etki̇leri̇

Digital Technologies for Social Innovation: An Empirical Recognition on the New Enablers

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