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Accelerated innovation through repurposing
As the COVID‐19 pandemic spread across the globe in the first quarter of 2020, demand for specialised equipment in hospitals soared. As a result, firms from a variety of sectors repurposed their design and manufacturing to...
Self-Assessment Framework for Corporate Environmental Sustainability in the Era of Digitalization
The shift towards a climate-neutral economy will affect businesses in the upcoming decades. Companies will need to increase their transformation towards environmentally sustainable businesses in the following years, in...
Eduard Eisner, Cadence Hsien, Mark Mennenga, Zi-Yu Khoo, Jasmin Dönmez, Christoph Herrmann, Jonathan Sze Choong Low
Feb 19, 2022
Dynamic capabilities and economic crises
Many studies have attempted to investigate the potential benefits of open innovation. However, the long-term effects of openness have yet to be demonstrated, even if few researchers hypothesized that high openness could increase...
Unrelated diversification in latecomer contexts—The emergence of the Chinese solar photovoltaics industry
New industries emerge in increasingly complex spatial patterns that challenge existing explanations of industrial path creation. In particular, the case of latecomer regions building up industries in fields that are unrelated to...
Real-time statistical modelling of data generated from self-sensing bridges
Instrumentation of infrastructure is changing the way engineers design, construct, monitor and maintain structures such as roads, bridges and underground structures. Data gathered from these instruments have changed the...
Big data and machine learning
Abstract Industry 4.0 aims to transform chemical and biochemical processes into intelligent systems via the integration of digital components with the actual physical units involved. This process...
Bogdan Dorneanu, Sushen Zhang, Hang Ruan, Mohamed Heshmat, Ruijuan Chen, Vassilios S Vassiliadis, Harvey Arellano-Garcia
Dec 16, 2022
Promoting cooperation in innovation ecosystems
Abstract: We investigate whether public support for innovation increases the propensity of SMEs in traditional manufacturing industries to cooperate for innovation—in particular, for incremental innovation—with other firms and...
Understanding the human side of openness
In small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), where typically the decision-making process is highly centralised, important decisions, such as open innovation (OI) adoption, will be strongly influenced by the characteristics of...
Expert views - and disagreements - about the potential of energy technology R&D
Mitigating climate change will require innovation in energy technologies. Policy makers are faced with the question of how to promote this innovation, and whether to focus on a few technologies or to spread their bets. We...
Linking business ecosystem and natural ecosystem together-a sustainable pathway for future industrialization
China has emerged as the second largest economy in the world during the globalization in the last forty years. However, in the last decade, Chinese manufacturing has also demonstrated its dark side causing wide range of...
Strategic suppliers' technical contributions to new product advantage
Current theory lacks clarity on how different kinds of resources contribute to new product advantage, or how firms can combine different resources to achieve a new product advantage. While several studies have identified...