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- Arena, Lise, et al.
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"A propos du développement de deux business Schools d'élite au Royaume-Uni : Une comparaison entre Cambridge et Oxford (1900-2000)"
- 2011
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In: Entreprise et Histoire. ; :65
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- (With first author: Lise Arena, University of Nice, GREDEG-CNRS, France) This research aims to identify a set of generative mechanisms which are shared by business schools’ process of development in their search for strategic comparative advantage. We use a processual approach (Pettigrew, 1997) based on two detailed historical studies supported by unexplored archival data and interviews: the case of the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and the case of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge (1990s – 2000s). Preliminary results indicate a complex process of emergence, development and institutionalisation which was neither a conscious desire expressed by existing academic institutions nor the result of a clear vision provided by academic leaders at the time. This research confirms Weick’s idea that business schools are loose couple systems that do not systematically express plans and intentional selection of means that get them to agree upon goals set a priori (Weick, 1976). Last but not least, our research shows that the nature of business schools’ organisational change combines a series of exogenous and endogenous generative mechanisms, through disjointed clusters of events. It is from this combination of exogenous and endogenous generative mechanisms inherited from the past that future business schools’ strategies might be considered.
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- Blasini, Bettina, et al.
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The Role of Communicators in Innovation Clusters
- 2013
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In: Strategy and Communication for Innovation, 2nd edition. - Berlin : Springer. - 9783642414794
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Innovation clusters continue to be an important focus of economic development policies in many nations. Leading innovation clusters demonstrate that regional concentration strengthens the innovative capability and can lead to successful competitiveness on a global level, as demonstrated by regions such as Silicon Valley (US), Cambridge (UK) and Sophia Antipolis (France). However the successful creation of clusters still presents a challenge to policy makers as efforts to do so regularly fail. The development of innovation clusters has therefore received much academic and policymaker attention. While past research has examined a variety of factors as drivers for clustering effects, the role of communication within the cluster - and, specifically, the role of key individual communicators - in underpinning successful cluster development has received almost no academic attention. In this chapter, we will draw upon the relevant literature to develop a conceptual framework that will underpin research on this important topic by investigating the role of communicators in innovation clusters. Building on communication theories, the framework suggests that there are four influence-levels that shape and impact the role of communications in innovation clusters: the Individual Level, the Organizational Level, the Cluster Level and the Context. The interdisciplinary view on clustering effects contributes valuable insight to both communication studies and cluster theories. The framework developed within this chapter provides a structure to aid future research on the role of communicators within innovation clusters.
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- Dang, Rani, et al.
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Creating, Maintaining and Dismantling a Hybrid Space for Sustainability Research: Exploring the practices of academic engagement in a university-industry centre
- 2019
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In: DRUID 2019 Conference Proceedings. - Copenhagen, Denmark : DRUID Society.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Drawing on a four-year qualitative field study, we explore the practise of academic engagement as institutionalized in a university-industry centre. We define this as a hybrid space, designed to allow interactions between commercial and academic logics. Our analysis identifies two phases: The first phase is creating the centre, through developing a formal organizational structure, which relies on pre-existing knowledge networks. The second phase is maintaining and dismantling the centre, which is constituted through micro-level activities. Difficulties arise with hybridizing the logics. We interpret that placing too much focus on ‘becoming an entrepreneurial university’ through a formal organizational structure can take too much time away from the on-going activities. The ‘commercial logic’ is interpreted differently by each industrial partner, which causes difficulties in deciding about research, due to the uncertain nature of science per se. We describe a new type of ‘societal engagement logic’, in this case related to sustainability.
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- Dang, Rani J., 1981, et al.
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Cluster's innovation : the role of combinative capabilities
- 2012
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In: The Conference for Organisational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC).
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper examines the mechanisms underlying territorial innovation dynamics, focusing specifically on the collaborative localised innovation projects they generate which has relevance for open innovation research. Most research on regional clusters focus on how clusters facilitate diffusion and exchange of knowledge. This paper rather focuses on how clusters facilitate the combination of knowledge among heterogeneous actors, which appears to be a critical point to foster successful local innovation collaborations. We apply a qualitative methodology (grounded theory) based on a case study research design to two high-tech clusters: one in the microelectronics sector and the other operating in the information and communication technology sector. We present a grounded emergent model explaining the mechanisms enhancing successful participation of clusters’ members into collaborative localised innovation projects. The main result of our study is the discovery of architectural knowledge at the cluster level as an important underlying mechanism affecting the territorial innovation dynamics. This study has implications on how scholars conceptualize territorial innovation by (1) enriching the concept of cluster-level architectural knowledge and (2) improving the understanding of the role of space on collaborative innovation processes.
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- Dang, Rani J., 1981, et al.
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Collaborative engineering projects and sustainability: Analysing open innovation practices for societal impact in the context of advanced engineering in university industry centres
- 2017
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In: 20th Uddevalla Symposium 2017, Trollhättan, Sweden, 15-17 June 2017.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article examines how open innovation practices (OIP) in the specific form of university-industry interactions can deliver societal impact. This article combines propositions from two streams of literature. One is that achieving societal goals through open innovation requires new advanced research and technology. Another is that when analysing university-industry interactions, there is a large difference between ‘commercialization’ and ‘academic engagement with industry’. We analyse a university-industry centre, with the dual goals of business innovation and sustainability. This article develops and uses a conceptual framework, in order to analyse and identify the main OIPs used, based upon microprocesses, in the context of collaborative engineering projects between universities and industry. Open innovation practices have been widely studied in the context of business innovation. Chesbrough & Bogers (2014, p. 17) define open innovation as “a distributed innovation process based on purposively managed knowledge flows across organizational boundaries”. Much of this literature focuses upon open innovation practices (OIP), within the context of business. Although a line of research has started to emerge, in order to understand the linkages between OIP and societal impact, including research describing government initiatives and proposing ways to measure outcomes (Chesbrough et al. 2014; Bornmann, 2013; EC 2015), two aspects have been fairly neglected: namely, universities’ role as well as the use of OIP for societal impact. Therefore, this article links the literature on OIP for societal impact with literature on university-industry interactions. Our theoretical framework is designed to analyse and identify the main OIPs used. The case study chosen is of a university-industry centre involving several engineering and science departments, large and small companies in order to gain more granular understanding of the OIP that potentially could have a societal impact. Combining multiple goals, with multiple participating organizations can lead to dilemmas, which in this case are created between business and social goals or logics. Our focus is upon how OIP are used and developed in relation to tensions that arise as different partners work towards goals, and how they find organizational solutions to handle the issues arising during distributed innovation processes. Hence, our study contributes to the literature in two ways. First, it provides a framework for better understanding how OIP work in the academic context, specifically advanced engineering involving university and firms. The study extends the framework on academic engagement with a sustainability dimension and shows its implications. Second, it examines the on-going practice that occurs, when a university-industry centre simultaneously has goals of business innovation and sustainability. The paper is structured as follows. The next section (2) grounds our work in Open Innovation Practices for societal impact and University-Industry interactions literatures, and introduces the theoretical framework on which we base our study. Next, we present the empirical context (3), then in the following section we outline our research design (4). Finally, we discuss how our findings contribute to the study of the emergence and identification of OIPs and how these OIPs work in the U-I collaboration context.
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- Dang, Rani J., 1981, et al.
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Developing A Technology Intelligence Strategy To Access Knowledge Of Innovation Clusters
- 2011
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In: in Strategies and Communications for Innovations, coord. Hülsmann M. and Pfeffermann N. (Eds) Springer-Verlag. March. - Germany : Springer-Verlag.
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Current times are characterised by a knowledge-based economy and fast technological change. In this difficult environment, companies compete to maintain a relevant position through innovation. In response to these challenges, many companies are currently adopting an open approach to innovation, pursuing innovation by combining internal and external resources. Technology intelligence (TI) activities support the implementation of open innovation with the systematic capture and delivery of information about threats and opportunities arising from new developments in science and technology. A popular choice for TI is to establish ‘listening posts’ in areas of intense innovative activities, for example in regional clusters where technical information flows are known to be particularly intensive. In fact, literature suggests that in clusters vertical interactions along the value chain and horizontal interactions between competing companies help companies to capture the regional market trends and preferences and take relevant decisions concerning their future technological focus. As companies cannot afford to setup a technology outpost in every single geographic area where innovation and technological development are intense and relevant, they need to develop a TI strategy to explore remotely the science and technology that is being developed across long geographic distances. This chapter illustrates through a detailed case study of Kodak European Research (KER), how companies can organise and implement TI activities to leverage the knowledge and existence of regional clusters. It integrates two domains of research on TI and regional clusters, giving insights into how TI activities are strongly influenced by location. Through the experience of KER, this chapter explores i) the pros and cons of becoming embedded within a cluster to take part in the ‘local buzz’; ii) the strategy to access knowledge of other clusters; iii) the communication strategy to manage the TI activity within and outside of the cluster.
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- Dang, Rani J., 1981, et al.
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Identifying actions driving and legitimizing radical innovations in a large firm A longitudinal study of the acceptance of a radical innovation in a Swedish incumbent forest firm
- 2013
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In: EURAM (European Academy of Management); 26-29 June 2013. - 9789758400355
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The core of this paper is to increase the understanding of firm selection processes of new innovation ideas that divert from the firm’s main activity: when exploring the process of developing a radical innovation within a firm. In a longitudinal study over 6 years, we follow an incumbent Swedish forest firm ́s effort in developing and commercializing a radical innovation. We find that when a radical idea lacks top management support, is not selected and the process of innovation is interrupted, lower level employees ́ action can have a defining impact on the selection and development of the idea towards commercialization. Emerging from our qualitative analysis we formalize these actions undertaken in a radical innovation process as actions of legitimacy. Applying institutional theory and the concept of legitimacy, we attempt to shed light on the firm process of selecting, developing and implementing radical ideas by proposing a grounded model. We open up the black box of actions of legitimacy, trace the effect of these actions on the selection, development and legitimacy of the radical innovation.
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- Dang, Rani J., 1981, et al.
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Innovation contexts and the dynamics of entrepreneurial opportunities
- 2014
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In: Journée Entrepreneuriat et PME: enjeux et perspectives. ; 2014:5
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper explores the impact of environmental factors upon the identification of entrepreneurial opportunities. The analysis is based upon studies of entrepreneurs in two French regions.
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- Dang, Rani J., 1981, et al.
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Knowledge management processes and the formation of entrepreneurial opportunities
- 2016
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In: Journal of Innovation Economics & Management. - : CAIRN. - 2032-5355. ; 1:19, s. 31-59
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Entrepreneurial activities are intricately linked to the discovery or creation of opportunities, in the innovation context. Many researches focus on the debate over the nature of opportunities (discovered or created) and more recently on the processes that form entrepreneurial opportunities. However little research investigates the innovation context as one of the attributes that would explain the type and the way opportunities are formed. As the success of entrepreneurial activities also depends on larger socio-cultural contexts, our particular interest in this paper is to explore the influence of specific localised innovation contexts on the opportunity formation process. We look at how an innovation context can become or fail to become an ecosystem forming or enhancing the opportunities (i.e. by providing the relevant technical and market knowledge), resulting in entrepreneurial activities. The study of two specific cases in this paper found two patterns of entrepreneurial process, as the result of two different contexts in which opportunities are in one case discovered or created in the other case.
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