Orchestrating digital innovation: The case of the Swedish Center for Digital Innovation

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There is increasing interest in how digital innovation is facilitated and enacted in networks of diverse actors, i.e. heterogenous networks. However, while there is considerable evidence that firms can build key capabilities through engagement with external partners, we find a dearth of studies on how digital innovation is orchestrated in situations where an academic unit plays a facilitating role in the heterogenous network. We address this question employing a dynamic capabilities approach, and focusing on experiences from a national academic initiative, the Swedish Center for Digital Innovation (SCDI). SCDI was formed in 2013 and has adopted an engaged scholarship approach and a combination of activities designed to increase digital capabilities among partner organizations. We argue that the acquisition of new knowledge through external and internal sources stimulates firms and public sector organizations engaged in digital innovation to integrate such new knowledge with existing knowledge. Specifically, we demonstrate how SCDI’s core activities create increased integrative capabilities for the involved stakeholders, as well as offer lessons-learned and recommendations for academic units that wish to orchestrate digital innovation.

Magnusson, Johan,1976Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi (GU),Department of Applied Information Technology (GU),University of Gothenburg (SE),Swedish Center for Digital Innovation, Department of Applied Information Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden(Swepub:gu)xmagjo (author)
Mähring, MagnusStockholm School of Economics,Handelshögskolan i Stockholm,Swedish Center for Digital Innovation House of Innovation, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden(Swepub:hhs)286@hhs.se (author)
Umeå universitetInstitutionen för informatik (creator_code:org_t)

In:Communications of the Association for Information Systems: Association for Information Systems48, s. 248-2641529-3181

By the author/editor: Holmström, Jonny; Magnusson, Johan ...; Mähring, Magnus

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