The Inclusion of Business and Nonbusiness Actors in Innovation Networks

• The paper aims to examine why innovations through networks emerge and how such innovations are configured. To address this, we examine two cases of IoT (internet of things) technologies applied on public services, i.e., Smart City development in Brazil. We demonstrate that innovation networks emerge because multinational enterprises (MNEs) in their constant need for innovation have limitations to pursuit and integrate complex knowledge on their own and for that reason cooperation with other actors becomes crucial. We describe and analyze a dynamic and complex process in which the MNEs’ searching-acting-convincing on an opportunity requires the inclusion of many actors. In particular the findings show that innovation is not limited to the traditional businessto business relationships but it can also arise from non-business actors such as NGOs and local government in both the development and implementation phase

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Företagsekonomi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business -- Business Administration (hsv//eng)

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Business Studies

Företagsekonomi

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