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De Gruyter Studies in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Herausgegeben von: John Bessant

ISSN: 2570-169X

e-ISSN 2570-1703

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De Gruyter Studies in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
edited by Professor John Bessant, Exeter University

De Gruyter Studies in Innovation and Entrepreneurship is a new, original and timely series of monographs that explores the relationship between the two fields of study. It serves to improve our understanding of the relationship between innovation and entrepreneurship in a range of different contexts from start-up high tech firm through to large corporation trying to reinvent itself, and across to the public and not-for-profit sectors where the concern is with creating social value.

Titles in this series communicate key research findings and offer new perspectives to aid our understanding of the dynamic nature of the relationship between innovation and entrepreneurship. The primary audience for these titles will be academic researchers in the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship incorporating academics from a wide range of disciplines including: business, management, economics, sociology, psychology, healthcare and technology.

We are looking for interesting and innovative proposals for projects; these might include:

Individual research monographs which allow ideas arising from projects to be developed at
greater length than might be possible in journal articles.
Books which draw together the findings from a larger-scale research programme involving
multiple contributors from different organizations and institutions. Such programmes might
focus on particular ‘grand challenges’ and offer a number of perspectives on a common
topical theme – for example, the role of technology in healthcare or approaches to innovation
in mature industries like automobiles.
Contributions which focus different perspectives on innovation and entrepreneurship, for example exploring key issues from the standpoint of economists, sociologists, psychologists, business researchers, technologists and beyond.

Series Editor:
If you are interested in submitting a proposal or have any questions, please contact the Series Editor:

Professor John Bessant,
Exeter Business School, UK
Email:
johnrbessant@gmail.com

VISION Envisioning the Future of Teaching and Training for Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

For more details go to:

https://www.vision-project.org

Fachgebiete

Buch Open Access 2025

The Fragility of Responsibility

Norway’s Transformative Agenda for Research, Innovation and Business

Giovanni De Grandis, Anne Blanchard

Band 9 in dieser Reihe

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Attempts to steer research, innovation and business in desirable directions have failed to meet expectations. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and responsible research and innovation (RRI) seem to be losing ground, while the challenges they sought to address remain. Despite their shortcomings, these concepts remind us of the need to take responsibility for what we as researchers and entrepreneurs bring into the world, and to keep questioning the given framework.

Drawing from the experience of the AFINO project, a unique attempt to bring together RRI and CSR and to promote networks, learning and skills building in Norway, this book contextualises and explores the practical challenges of actualising responsible practices even in the propitious Norwegian context. Readers interested in RRI, CSR, transdisciplinarity, and in the governance of research and innovation will find extensive information and insights about the challenges of steering research and business practices towards desirable ends and how to address them.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111397719
ISBN:: 9783111397719
ISBN:: 9783111399324
ISBN:: 9783111395531
Fachgebiet:: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Betriebswirtschaft
Fachgebiet:: Management, Organisation und Unternehmensführung, Grundsätze der Unternehmensführung
Fachgebiet:: Soziale Verantwortung des Unternehmens, Compliance, Unternehmensethik
Fachgebiet:: Existenzgründung, Unternehmertum
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch Open Access 2024

Meeting the Inclusion Challenge in Innovation

Giving Voice to Users

Tatiana Iakovleva, Elin M. Oftedal, John Bessant

Band 8 in dieser Reihe

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User inclusion in innovation is increasingly the target of policy rhetoric at both organizational and societal levels. And extensive research has demonstrated the potential contribution that users can make, both at the ‘front end’ of innovation with their ideas and insights and downstream, facilitating adoption and diffusion. However, translating this potential into practice remains problematic, not least because we need to understand more about how to hear user voices, amplify their insights, and provide practical channels for inclusion to ensure full co-creation of innovation. Our earlier book from 2019 (‘Responsible Innovation in Digital Health’, Edward Elgar) added to the growing body of knowledge around whether users can be involved, and this book opens up the ‘how?’ theme. Our work suggested a spectrum of user involvement ranging from those who can participate fully to those who are passive players in the innovation process, and we explore in this book different tools, techniques, and mechanisms for enabling such users to become more involved in the innovation process. We look at the concept of ‘boundary innovation spaces’ as environments in which co-creation can be enabled, drawing on experience across a wide international research network. We also explore the broader innovation environment – the specific networks of actors and their interactions which define the innovation ecosystem where user inclusion may be embedded.

This book moves the discussion beyond the question of whether users can be more effectively included throughout the innovation process to explore the ways in which this might be enabled.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111241036
ISBN:: 9783111241036
ISBN:: 9783111240572
ISBN:: 9783111241906
Fachgebiet:: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Betriebswirtschaft
Fachgebiet:: Soziale Verantwortung des Unternehmens, Compliance, Unternehmensethik
Fachgebiet:: Existenzgründung, Unternehmertum
Fachgebiet:: Medizin
Fachgebiet:: Vorklinische Medizin, Grundlagenmedizin
Fachgebiet:: Vorklinische Medizin, Grundlagenmedizin, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2024

The Evolving Innovation Space

Policy and Impact Evaluation in a Changing World

Jari Kuusisto, Martin Meyer, Stephen Flowers, Leena Kunttu, Helka Kalliomäki

Band 7 in dieser Reihe

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The book comprises a series of contributions and case studies fused together around the concept and dynamics of innovation – product, process, systems, marketing, organisation, roles, relations, norms, values and policy. The underlying theme is innovation as necessarily transformative, where the transformation is in the economic system for a better world. That better world is one that is inclusive, efficient and meets the global challenges. To that end the tools of innovation, measurement (effects vis-à-vis outcomes) and the enabling financial mechanisms are examined, evaluated and change is explored.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111188218
ISBN:: 9783111188218
ISBN:: 9783111188430
ISBN:: 9783111187617
Fachgebiet:: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Betriebswirtschaft
Fachgebiet:: Unternehmensentwicklung, Management des Wandels, Kooperationen
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2023

Learning and Innovation of Chinese Firms

Jacky Hong, Shenxue Li

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

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This edited volume explores the learning and innovation of Chinese firms. In particular, it examines the difficulties and obstacles affecting the technological collaboration between Chinese firms and foreign partners as well as some of the key organizational and institutional challenges of innovation facing Chinese firms.
Despite enjoying rapid economic growth in previous decades, learning and innovation of Chinese firms has received relatively limited attention among management and international business scholars in the past. However, some significant changes in the Chinese institutional environment have occurred in recent years. On one hand, the Chinese central government has devised a number of policy initiatives to promote and support innovative activities in China, ranging from the ‘Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation by All’ to the latest ‘Made in China 2025’. On the other hand, we have witnessed an increasing number of indigenous Chinese firms (e.g. Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, Huawei and DJI) adopting business model innovation with global inputs and impacts in different business sectors, namely electronic commerce, telecommunication network equipment, social media, mobile payment and drones.
In view of these recent developments, we aim to further our understanding about the learning and innovation processes of Chinese firms in this edited volume.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110715002
ISBN:: 9783110715002
ISBN:: 9783110715026
ISBN:: 9783110714937
Fachgebiet:: Asien- und Pazifikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Ostasien
Fachgebiet:: China
Fachgebiet:: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Volkswirtschaft
Fachgebiet:: Mikroökonomie
Fachgebiet:: Betriebswirtschaft
Fachgebiet:: Management, Organisation und Unternehmensführung, Grundsätze der Unternehmensführung
Fachgebiet:: Betriebswirtschaft, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2020

Opposites attract

How to transfer knowledge across different industry domains

Hilda Bø Lyng

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

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Cross-industry innovation introduces a dilemma for the innovation process. On one hand, there is a broad consensus in research that diversity in knowledge leads to increased levels of novelty in innovation. On the other hand, the crossing of industries boundaries is known to cause knowledge boundaries between actors. This book contributes to this end, by the development of new understanding of important aspects in cross-industry innovation.

The empirical bases for this research are case data from the Pumps & Pipes association in US and Norway (conferences and 7 Norwegian cross-industry collaborations), and cross-industry cases from the Norway Health Tech cluster.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110686616
ISBN:: 9783110686616
ISBN:: 9783110686753
ISBN:: 9783110686487
Fachgebiet:: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Betriebswirtschaft
Fachgebiet:: Betriebswirtschaft, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2020

Vigilant Innovation

Configuring search and select processes to avoid disruption

Bill Russell

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

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Drawing on over a hundred years of research into innovation and an in depth research study, the book brings to life the reality of managing established firms to secure advantage through vigilant innovation approaches in disrupting digital era markets.

Exploring how organizations manage new offering development focused innovation across a portfolio of core, adjacent and breakthrough environments, the focus is on the search and select phases of the innovation process, and how established firms identify and validate a range of opportunities.

Companies face the paradox of how to establish search and select processes for focal markets, while also setting up routines to sense and respond to disruptive innovation signals from adjacent and more peripheral markets. The book builds on research into peripheral vision, and considers how organizations manage the crucial early stages of a vigilant innovation process.

The research project at the heart of the book focused on 10 case companies in the publishing sector. The new frameworks developed by the author were informed by over 60 interviews, the innovation literature and the author’s experience as a researcher, consultant and practitioner.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110657326
ISBN:: 9783110657326
ISBN:: 9783110653342
ISBN:: 9783110653380
Fachgebiet:: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Betriebswirtschaft
Fachgebiet:: Existenzgründung, Unternehmertum
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2020

Ecopreneurship

Business practices for a sustainable future

Niels Robert Schneider

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

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This research monograph answers the question how sustainability driven entrepreneurs (ecopreneurs) deliver their sustainability goals through their business practices. The research draws on data from 12 case studies set within the food industry. The analysis takes a firm level and a supply chain level perspective and provides insights to the interconnected nature of sustainability goals within and across firms.

It provides theoretical propositions that show one approach of how to conduct business in a way that works for the planet and people in addition to shareholders. This presents an alternative understanding of organisational performance that builds the foundation for many avenues of future research into sustainable management.

The research combines the remote areas of supply chain management and entrepreneurship at the intersection of sustainability. This novel approach and the insights from the business practice exploration, offer many avenues for further research beyond entrepreneurship and supply chain management. This book will be of interest to academics in management research and also to people with an academic background that work together with sustainability driven and/ or social entrepreneurs, who could benefit from the insights into how sustainability goals are delivered through business practices and the relevant trade-offs faced by ecopreneurs.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110684636
ISBN:: 9783110684636
ISBN:: 9783110778137
ISBN:: 9783110684698
ISBN:: 9783110684582
Fachgebiet:: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Betriebswirtschaft
Fachgebiet:: Existenzgründung, Unternehmertum
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2020

Gender Differences in Technology and Innovation Management

Insights from Experimental Research

Alexander Brem, Peter M. Bican, Christine Wimschneider

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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Even though the number of working women has steadily increased over the last few years, women are still significantly under-represented in STEM activities (i.e. mathematics, informatics, science and technology).

In order to eliminate this under-representation, numerous education policies and corporate initiatives, particularly in the recent past, have been aimed at increasing women's enthusiasm for STEM activities and professions. According to the latest surveys, however, it is clear that these efforts have not yet led to the desired success. Compared to their male counterparts, women continue to do fewer STEM activities.

One possible reason for this is that relatively little is yet known about the concrete impact of the above education policies on working with innovation and technology: What are the gender differences between women and men? Is it enough to recognize these differences, or should these differences ideally not only be recognized, but also treated appropriately or even encouraged?

This anthology deals with current topics in technology and innovation management against the background of these and other gender-relevant aspects. Empirical analyses and experiments in collaboration with companies from various sectors provide a sound scientific basis on which new results and findings are presented: How do women and men deal with creativity and competition? How are technologies applied and how can differences in access to technology be deduced?

Answers to these and other questions help decision-makers in politics and business to proactively use the differences between women and men to motivate women to work in the STEM field and to strengthen them by acknowledging existing differences.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110593952
ISBN:: 9783110593952
ISBN:: 9783110590791
ISBN:: 9783110591149
Fachgebiet:: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Betriebswirtschaft
Fachgebiet:: Existenzgründung, Unternehmertum
Fachgebiet:: Technik
Fachgebiet:: Einführungen und Gesamtdarstellungen
Fachgebiet:: Technik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2020

Innovating in the Open Lab

The new potential for interactive value creation across organizational boundaries

Albrecht Fritzsche, Julia M. Jonas, Angela Roth, Kathrin M. Möslein

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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Open labs provide spaces for interaction across organizational boundaries. They create a huge potential to advance innovation processes. Making use of this potential, however, is not an easy task. It requires diligence, sophistication and perseverance from everyone involved in the implementation and the management of the lab.

This book brings together contributions from leading experts in engineering, design, strategy, foresight and marketing research as well as policy makers and practitioners from an open lab. It explores from different perspectives how open labs can be used to facilitate innovation and what needs to be done to make the operation of an open lab successful. The topics addressed in the book include: interaction patterns and mediation in open labs, innovation technology, resource management, ecosystem and platform design, cultural translation, productivity, multi-channel communication, and more.

The first part of the book is dedicated to the study of JOSEPHS^®, an open lab in Germany. It gives insight in the practical challenges of running an open lab and its role in the local business ecosystem. The other parts of the book discuss the phenomenon of open labs in general and its significance in different contexts all around the world.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110633665
ISBN:: 9783110633665
ISBN:: 9783110628210
ISBN:: 9783110629972
Fachgebiet:: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Betriebswirtschaft
Fachgebiet:: Unternehmensentwicklung, Management des Wandels, Kooperationen
Fachgebiet:: Betriebswirtschaft, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg