Editorial PrEfacE i As you would expect from its title, the International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation (IJANTTI) covers two areas: • Actor-Network Theory and • Technological Innovation. ANT itself, of course, has a good deal to say about technological innovation through Innovation Translation, but it does not have a monopoly of theorising innovation. This issue c...

The identification of technologically innovating firms is related to the development of indicators of their innovation activity. In this study, we carry out a review of indicators of firms’ technological innovation activity and then classify them according to whether they are based on inputs or outputs of the innovation process, and to the sources of the information they consider, whether prima...

International new ventures (INVs) that pursue rapid internationalisation have received a growing amount of attention worldwide. This study, therefore, examined characteristics of INVs, and hence investigated empirically the relationships among the technological characteristics of INVs, the characteristics of their chief executive officers (CEOs) (i.e., global orientation), and their internation...

We examine the view that the success of emerging technologies may be understood using a technological innovation systems analysis, drawing on a system functions approach. This is done in the context of a case study of the successful diffusion of biomass digestion technology in Germany. We show that that all system functions that are claimed to be important within the innovation systems approach...

Using patent data, we propose a new quantitative analysis to investigate the integration type and degree of leading edge technologies in order to examine the research & development (R&D) status, efficiency and strategies of companies. Defining three types of categorization based on IPC (International Patent Classification) and CO-IPC of patents, the concept of “innovation position” is introduce...

This paper analyzes the status of technological innovation management, made a complete concept of technological innovation audit, and sets up a conceptual model of technical innovation audit using systems engineering method. We puts forward an integrity concept of stakeholders at all levels, established a concept model of technological innovation audit and presents the workflow and common metho...

In this paper we draw from the knowledge-based view of the firm and dynamic capabilities theory to examine the effects of IT competencies on the innovation outcomes in firms. We argue that IT competencies impact product innovation by enhancing component knowledge such as technological and market knowledge of the firm. We are also posit that IT competencies allow firms to develop combinative cap...