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- Laage-Hellman, Jens, 1947, et al.
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How Networks and Sectoral Conditions Affect Commercialization in a Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurial Venture in the Medical Technology Industry: A case study of Aerocrine
- 2016
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Ingår i: Dynamics of Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship : Business Strategy and Public Policy/Edited by Franco Malerba, Yannis Caloghirou, Maureen McKelvey, Slavo Radoševic. - United Kingdom : Routledge. - 9781138025288 ; , s. 265-288
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter focuses upon the development of a KIE venture in the medical technology sector in Sweden. The case study described and analyzed in this chapter is very specific, but it also provides insights into the more general processes about developing and managing a KIE venture. So although the KIE venture is located in Sweden, the dimensions related to market, and indeed increasingly those related to finance and production, are global. In the context of this book, this chapters show how networks and specific conditions in the sectoral systems of innovation influence the development and performance of a knowledge intensive entrepreneurial (KIE) venture.
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- Lassen, Astrid Heidemann, 1975, et al.
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Digital disruptors: On the potentials and characteristics of digital knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial ventures
- 2018
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Ingår i: ISPIM Stockholm 2018 conference.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Abstract: In this paper we seek to advance the understanding of digital disruption by investigating the question: What characterizes the input, management, and performance of digital KIEs, and how does this relate to digital disruption? By exploring these issues, we propose to make two contributions to the discussion of digital disruption. First, we develop the argument that knowledge intensive entrepreneurial ventures in digital domains hold the potential to become the digital disruptors of tomorrow, why we should pay dedicated attention to such ventures when advancing the theory of digital disruption. Secondly, we suggest a methodology for researching digital KIEs and identifying distinct characteristics which relate to the capability of creating digital disruption. The results will aid innovation management researchers and practitioners in understanding what enables companies to generate digital disruption.
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- Lassen, Astrid Heidemann, 1975, et al.
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Entrepreneurship in Creative Industries as compared to High-tech and Low-tech Manufacturing
- 2017
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Ingår i: Workshop on "Co-evolution of Entrepreneurship and Artistic Innovation", 30 March 2017, Gothenburg. - : ISPIM.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Entrepreneurs in creative industries have social value at the center of the value realization, for example, community, a sense of identity, solidarity, conviviality, friendship, and so on. The implication is that the informal sphere, more generally denoted as civil society, plays a particularly crucial role for the realization of the creative values (see e.g. Bendixen, 2000; Jeffcut and Pratt, 2002; Konrad, 2013). Characteristics of creative industries are thus argued to be opposed to the more market and industrially oriented mechanisms governing other sectors, and manufacturing industries in particular. In other words, different literature assumes varieties of entrepreneurship. Up to now, knowledge intensive entrepreneurship (KIE) has most often been studied in the context of manufacturing industries in particular, including some comparisons of high-tech or low-tech industries (McKelvey and Lassen 2013a; McKelvey and Lassen 2013b; Malerba et al 2015). Important findings from these studies relate to particularly the role and importance of advanced technological knowledge and innovation across all types of sectors, and in services as well as goods. However, the initial proposal of the concept of KIE in fact transcends specific industrial domains, as has been argued from the initial launching of the concept as well as from extensive qualitative and quantitative studies. Hence, more comparative work is needed across industrial sectors, in order to develop better taxonomies in future research. Hence, in this paper we tackle a number of pertinent questions as to the exact nature and effect of KIE entrepreneurship in creative industries, and specifically how KIE should be understood in this context as compared to other sectors. We address such fundamental questions by asking whether, how and why creative entrepreneurship differs from other varieties of knowledge intensive entrepreneurship, leading to the title of ‘same, same but different’ as a rhetorical way of analyzing similarities and differences.
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- Lassen, Astrid Heidemann, 1975, et al.
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Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship in Manufacturing and Creative Industries: Same, Same, but Different
- 2018
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Ingår i: Creativity and Innovation Management. - : Wiley. - 0963-1690 .- 1467-8691. ; 27:3, s. 284-294
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To date, there is little empirical evidence on the specificities and commonalities of entrepreneurship in the creative industries relative to other sectors. This paper explores this issue by comparing knowledge‐intensive entrepreneurship (KIE) in the manufacturing and creative industries by examining their differences and similarities. Given the lack of prior studies, our comparison is exploratory and based on descriptive statistics. We use survey data that comes from a large‐scale Eurupean Union research project (AEGIS) which studied KIE firms across 10 countries and a diverse set of industries. Our analysis shows that KIE firms in creative industries resemble those in manufacturing in several dimensions, but also that there are some pronounced differences, such as (i) a higher level of knowledge intensity of KIE firms in creative industries, with higher educational attainment of both founders and employees; (ii) that personal financing plays a much larger role in creative industries; (iii) KIE in creative industries focuses more on service innovations, but introduces radical innovations to a lesser extent; and (iv) they remain smaller in terms of number of employees and turnover, but are more profitable than KIE in manufacturing relative to their size. We end the paper by pointing out directions for future research, based on our exploratory results.
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- Lassen, Astrid Heidemann, 1975, et al.
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Promoting Future Sustainable Transition by Overcoming the Openness Paradox in KIE Firms
- 2020
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 12:24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A key issue for transition to a more sustainable future is how to promote collaboration for innovation amongst multiple diverse partners. However, collaborating for innovation requires that firms overcome the paradox of openness, i.e., they need to be open to collaboration to innovate and at the same time protect their internal knowledge and intellectual assets to appropriate value from their innovations. The aim of this paper is to investigate how knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial (KIE) firms can overcome this paradox—which is an important barrier to future transitions—by choosing a combination of collaborative partners and appropriability strategies that support their ability to create more radical innovations. We analyze a sample of over 2450 KIE firms, drawing from a cross-European survey. Our results indicate how different partners, and different appropriability strategies, are more, or less, relevant to the generation of the radical innovations needed to transform society into one with a sustainable future; university collaboration and the use of formal protection mechanisms seem especially important for such new-to-the-world innovations. Our study includes important policy implications for how to support and promote future sustainable transitions and also establishes a foundation for future lines of research regarding entrepreneurship and sustainable transition.
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- Llopis-Corcoles, Oscar, et al.
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Innovation from Science: The role of network content and legitimacy ties
- 2017
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Ingår i: DRUID17, NYU Stern School of Business, New York, USA, 12-14 June 2017. - Denmark : DRUID.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although the analysis of the socio-economic benefits from publicly funded research has been a topic of extensive research in the last decades (Cohen et al., 2002; Salter and Martin, 2001), the factors that underlie innovation and technological performance from scientific activities remain a subject of open debate. This is becoming a particularly pressing topic in both science policy and innovation management literatures. On the one hand, publicly funded research is becoming increasingly accountable to demonstrate its capacity to contribute both to scientific discoveries and useful applications (EC 2016; Von Schomberg, 2013). More recently, science policies also advocate for the active involvement of stakeholders in the setting of scientific research goals and the assessment of traslational achievements and societal impacts, particularly so in the case of biomedical research (Morgan et al., 2011). On the other hand, the management literature has highlighted the inherent difficulty of reconciling innovation achievements and scientific goals since they often respond to conflicting logics (Gittelman and Kogut, 2003; Dasgupta and David, 1994) - i.e. market versus science logics - and rely upon different cognitive bases (Nightingale, 1998). Drawing on the preceding debates, this study aims to improve our understanding of the micro-level foundations of the relationship between scientific research and development of new applications. We do so by considering a relational approach to scientific research networks through the analysis of the content of network ties (Levin et al., 2015; Walter et al., 2015). This perspective is in contrast to more standard network approaches, which are grounded on structural features of networks and have received much more theoretical and empirical attention in the literature (e.g.: Balkundi et al., 2007; Burt, 2004; Tan et al., 2015). Given the crucial role that scientific collaboration networks play in knowledge creation processes (Adams, 2012; Miguélez and Moreno, 2013), we investigate the extent to which the types of social exchanges in research networks are conducive to the generation of valuable applications from scientific endeavours. More specifically, we examine a particular type of social exchange from network contacts: the specialised advice and guidance that contribute to gain credibility on research-related activities obtained through ties to network partners (Levin and Cross, 2004). Our results thus suggest that the perceived legitimacy afforded through ties within research networks play a critical role in reconciling the conflicting logics of science and innovation. Moreover, we examine two additional factors that may contribute to enhance the capacity of scientific research activities to generate valuable applications and innovations: the past scientific performance of scientists and the direct interactions of scientists with the potential beneficiaries of their research.
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- Llopis-Corcoles, Oscar, et al.
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Reaching scientific and innovation outcomes with beneficiaries and relational network content
- 2017
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Ingår i: Presentation at conference "Knowledge and Universities: Impact on science, industry and policy", IIE, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-13 September 2017.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study contributes to advance understanding on the micro-level foundations of the relationship between scientific research and innovation. We adopt a relational approach to scientific research networks through the analysis of the content of network ties, in contrast to more standard network approaches which are grounded on structural features of networks. We argue that the perceived legitimacy afforded through ties within research networks play a critical role in reconciling the conflicting logics of science and innovation. The proposed hypotheses are empirically tested in the context of the Spanish biomedical research system, drawing on a large scale survey of biomedical scientists. Our results indicate that the scientists’ acquisition of legitimacy through their research network play a critical role in the context of the translation from scientific research to technological achievements and innovations. Our findings also show that past scientific impact has a reinforcing effect on the relationship between legitimacy acquisition and technological achievements. On the contrary, we find that direct interaction with beneficiaries provides an alternative path to reconcile the conflicting logics of science and market, by compensating for the lack of acquired legitimacy from research network.
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- Llopis, O., et al.
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Navigating multiple logics: Legitimacy and the quest for societal impact in science
- 2022
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Ingår i: Technovation. - : Elsevier BV. - 0166-4972. ; 110:February 2022
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Academic scientists are encouraged to pursue research that delivers both scientific and societal impact. This may involve a search for alternative mechanisms of social approval which lead to endorsement of scientists’ research goals. We explore how scientists mobilise and accumulate different forms of legitimacy, which might favour their participation in practices related to innovation and societal impact. We propose three specific sources of scientific legitimacy: i) scientists’ social networks (research-related legitimacy ties), ii) prominence in the relevant academic community (reputation-based legitimacy); and direct contact with the primary beneficiaries of the research (beneficiary-based legitimacy). To explain scientists’ participation in activities oriented towards innovation and societal impact, we test the significance of each of these sources of legitimacy and their potential interplay empirically, using a large sample of Spanish biomedical scientists. © 2021 The Authors
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- Malerba, F, et al.
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CO-EVOLUTION IN KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE ECOSYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY OF KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE INNOVATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHP IN HORSETECH
- 2018
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Ingår i: Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum workshop on "From startup to scale-up: Entreprenuership, human capital and scaling up new businesses", Stockholm, 29-30 October 2018.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A crucial issue for entrepreneurship in general is how to better capture and explain the dynamics of growing, and specifically process of moving from idea to a project to a venture and possibly to scale-up into a growth firm (Anyadike-Danes and Hart, 2015). However, entrepreneurship literature has recognized that this is not a linear process, and concepts of ecosystems are useful. Therefore, we place our version of the concept of ecosystem, in relation to the rapidly expanding literature on innovation ecosystems and entrepreneurial ecosystems more generally, which is being used in economic geography, strategy, and innovation studies more generally (Alvedalen & Boschma 2017; Audretsch & Belitski 2017; Adner, R. 2017; Jackson 2015; Spigel, B. 2017; Stam 2015). Our focus is upon dynamic processes associated with the emerging literature on knowledge-intensive innovative entrepreneurship. Our case study focuses upon KIE entrepreneurship in horsetech, by examining the dynamics of a set of six KIE firms in horsetech in 1 European country (Sweden). This sport is the second largest in Sweden, with up to 30,00 people are employed, and 360 000 horses in a national population of 9 million. Within equestrian sports and horsetech more broadly, the case study focuses upon horsetech, with the companies analyzed Hoofstep, RideQ, Videquus, Equilab, Ridesum and Horsemeup. This represents the population of dedicated digital horse companies at the time of the study (Fall 2017-Spring 2018), based upon earlier empirical work on a broader range of topics (Berggren 2018; Hermansson 2018; Hermansson et al 2018). Our case study of KIE ventures in horsetech is based upon interviews with each founder, plus archival material, site visits, public records, and business data. Each of these KIE companies is primarily focused upon using software and IT to improve communication, training/competition, control and thereby improve safety, performance and equestrian well being. The companies are all early stage ventures, thereby with a focus upon processes from idea to project to company, with some indications of the possibilities of scale-up. The six companies are briefly presented historically, and then compared and contrasted in terms of: idea, knowledge required, what is innovation, sales/product/use and financing/revenues. In doing this analysis, the focus is upon the co-evolution between these KIE venture and the surrounding KI ecosystem. Our case study demonstrates how co-evolution plays out over time, and specifically in relation to the model proposed by Malerba and McKelvey (2018). Our focus is upon the co-evolution between knowledge and innovation, in ways which shape innovative opportunities. Specifically, we indicate how these KIE firms can use digital and new technologies, products, and services to push new consumption patterns, which in turn creates new market opportunities in the form of new goods and services. Therefore, tackling co-evolution of KIE entrepreneurship requires an understanding of what knowledge, innovation and entrepreneurship mean, also in the context of sectors such as cultural and creative sectors as well as what is studied here, namely sports in traditional sectors.
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