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This is a panel discussion with three innovators-entrepreneurs who are based in Leipzig. The place where we had this discussion, and where they all do their work, is SpinLab, previously a textile factory that is now devoted to innovation for individuals who are starting new companies. They were in a discussion with six academics who are affiliated with the Global Urban Competitiveness Project. We were in Leipzig to hold a research workshop on the subject of ‘City Innovation in a Time of Crisis’, that is, what cities must do to recover from the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. We all enjoyed the conversation and benefited from it as well, and we hope the reader will too.
A gamification approach for enhancing older adults' technology adoption and knowledge transfer
(2024)
Technology is assumed to be important for enhancing older adults' life quality and for ameliorating age-related problems, but older adults nevertheless typically exhibit lower technology adoption rates than young people. Gamification has the potential to address this problem by motivating older adults, but its value for the elderly has thus far been undermined through gamification design biases favoring young people. This study addressed this problem by developing a purpose-built gamified learning system, based on a popular mobile payment platform, to test the potential of employing a gamification-and-learning approach to the design of gamification systems for enhancing knowledge transfer and technology adoption by older adults. The research employed structural equation modeling, incorporating user knowledge and gamification-related constructs, drawing upon the established Technology Acceptance Model. Data were collected from older adults in Hong Kong with an appropriate demographic and market profile, following a one-group pretest–posttest research design. The results revealed notable gamification-induced improvements in the knowledge and technology adoption intentions of older adults, and significant positive relationships between gamification effectiveness and technology adoption constructs. The research demonstrates the significant positive effects which gamification may have on the acceptance and usage of technology by older adults and evokes policy implications for the silver-hair market.
This publication-based dissertation explores how complex technological organizations strategically manage their intellectual property (IP), how their IP capabilities, as dynamic capabilities, change over time, and how the dynamic capability of an IP function and that of a technology function within the same organization coevolve. This dissertation comprises four independent research papers prepared for publication in academic journals with a double-blind peer review process. It consists of six chapters. Chapter 1 is an introduction to the knowledge gap in the field of strategic IP management in the context of complex technological organizations, provides an overview of the four research papers, and outlines their current publication status. Chapter 2 presents the first research paper, which involves a systematic literature review and empirical insights from practitioners. It is focusing on the IP capability in business development and operations. Its key finding is contextual factors and strategic approaches for patent licensing provisions in bilateral collaboration agreements between a technological organization and its collaborator. Chapter 3 presents the second research paper, which is an empirical study based on public patent data analysis of Airbus and Boeing. It is related to the IP capability in the legal domain. Its main result is our hypothesized generic evolutionary patent application strategy schema tested by patenting behaviors of the two major competing firms in the commercial aircraft industry. Chapter 4 presents the third research paper which is a single longitudinal case study of Airbus. Its primary findings are a method of taxonomizing and visually presenting dynamic organizational IP capabilities based on a case study of Airbus, and a framework of four generic IP strategies based on the main approach an organization appropriates value from its IP assets. Chapter 5 presents the fourth research paper, which is also an empirical case study of Airbus. Its main results are the IP function's roles, capabilities, interactions with the Technology function, and their three coevolutionary phases. Lastly, Chapter 6 provides a summary of the research theoretical and practical outcomes and contributions, discusses limitations, and suggests potential areas for future research.
Les niches technologiques
(2023)
How can Business Schools create and appropriate value in university-based technological innovation?
(2023)
Discussion in the scholarly literature about partnerships between entrepreneurs and universities for the creation of technological spinouts, and for helping universities to extract more value from their technology-related intellectual property (IP), is lively. However, the literature exhibits a gap in understanding how business schools may participate in the process of technology commercialization by facilitating the creation of intellectual property rights. In this conceptual paper, we seek to fill this gap in three ways. First, we offer some novel conceptual insights by studying the partnership between technical universities and entrepreneurs using a multi-level approach, incorporating a phenomenological research method, through the lenses of several established theoretical perspectives from the domains of economics, social science, and management: the division of labor, motivation, the nature of the firm, organization, and IP. Second, we develop a working hypothesis focused on learning reinforcement through multiple organizational levels that predicts how business schools may play a prominent role in technology commercialization, together with the theoretical conditions under which they may do so. Third, we offer an IP management model under which business schools, as such, may create and appropriate financial value by generating innovation-related IP that may be transferred to enterprises. Our research reveals a misalignment between promising approaches to university-based technological innovation suggested by normative theory and typical approaches associated with extant practice; and it also highlights a strategic issue, which is that the performance of most universities in the domain of technology transfer is disappointing. We suggest a way to address this misalignment, and this strategic issue, which is through the establishment of what we label as "Technology Innovation Laboratories" in business schools-analogous to technical laboratories usually associated with technical universities-that could generate various types of product- or service-related IP. This type of intellectual property-typically different from invention IP, and which we label here as "business IP"-could be exchanged for equity in spinouts or royalties from licensing, similar to the manner in which the invention IP of technical universities is usually commercialized.
Innovation-focused co-creation between companies and individual external contributors is accompanied by the challenge of managing intellectual property (IP). The existing literature presents scattered evidence of various elements of the arrangements adopted by companies to manage their IP (such as a high or low degree of IP control, monetary or non-monetary compensation, non-disclosure agreements, additional agreements and the waiver option) in different co-creation settings (including crowdsourcing contests, virtual communities, single expert sessions and lead user workshops). However, the existing literature exhibits little understanding of how particular IP arrangements influence co-creation project performance in specific settings. Drawing upon contingency theory and configurational theory, we provide a framework that explains both the effectiveness of different IP configurations and the moderating role that co-creation settings may have on the relationship between IP arrangements and project performance. By the means of fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) on a sample of 116 co-creation projects, we determine the impact of various IP arrangements on project performance in different co-creation settings, and we show how this effect differs across those settings. Our study also demonstrates that IP matters for success in co-creation, while highlighting the interdependence of multiple elements of IP arrangements and their joint influence on co-creation project performance. Our study thus fills the gap in the literature where previous research failed to embrace the context-dependent and multidimensional effect of IP arrangements on co-creation project performance. Additionally, this study offers best-practice guidelines for managers for designing IP arrangements to meet the specific characteristics of their co-creation projects and to ensure their success.
In this work we elucidate international trends in the field of quantum technology (QT) by analysing a global patent database built from an operational definition of QT that was generated through the curated application of artificial intelligence (AI). In doing so, we demonstrate how the sophisticated use of intellectual property information, enhanced by the artful deployment of AI techniques, may produce more reliable and useful revelations for policymakers and managers about global innovation in emerging fields of technology than is possible through conventional methods of data collection and analysis. We also demonstrate the utility of this approach for reliably characterising the evolving constituent sub-fields of QT. By adopting a hybrid human-AI approach to both the definition and the analysis of QT, we have produced some novel insights about global innovation and national organisational profiles in the QT field, particularly concerning dynamic competition between the USA and China.
Herausforderungen annehmen
(2022)
“Technological innovation” has become a catch phrase of contemporary policy making for governments, corporations and academic organizations. For many it has become an article of faith that technological innovation is the key to solving economic, social and environmental problems, but the formula for success is not obvious. The phrase “science and technology” rolls off the tongues of policy makers, managers and researchers spontaneously, as if this is the natural order of things, but why is the converse phrase “technology and science” so rarely encountered? The orthodox view appears to be that technology is applied science, or that technological change flows naturally from scientific progress. However, what if popular preconceptions about the relationship between science and technology are misplaced? This paper addresses the question of the fundamental relationship between technology and science by first reviewing pertinent literature from the field of science, technology and society (STS) studies and by then investigating empirically the nature of the relationship in the field of energy conversion technology. It draws policy-making implications for investment in technology and science. We propose the theory of technology-conditioned science as a plausible and credible counterweight to extant commonplace presumptions that science is the precursor of technology.