To achieve sustainable development, focal firms should balance two paradoxical kinds of innovation activities: exploitative and exploratory ones. Published works found that ambidexterity is an effective way to resolve paradoxical tensions, but few in-depth studies have been conducted to explore the innovation paradox of focal firms in the innovation ecosystem from an ambidextrous capability per...

Deep structural and sustained change is necessary to tackle contemporary environmental challenges. How such change emerges and can be governed has been explored through the notion of sustainable innovation journeys. To date research had conceptualised such journeys as transitions to more sustainable socio-technical systems, e.g. mobility, shelter, food and farming. However, there is a paucity o...

The paper takes its starting point in a survey from a research project on “Service Development, Internationalisation and Competence Development.” The survey was sent to 2,870 Danish service firms within 59 industries. 623 firms from 49 industries responded, corresponding to 21.7 percent of the population. In addition to this survey, the paper also refers to existing research within the field of...

The concept of an “innovation ecosystem” has been formulated as a conceptual tool to reason about the desirable interaction between the main actors of national innovation systems to become competitive and to generate growth and employment. The analysis of innovation ecosystems can be done at macro, meso or micro levels depending on the emphasis placed on policy instruments and type of activitie...

The knowledge economy is one of the cornerstones of our society. Our economic prosperity and development is derived for a large part from technical knowledge. Knowledge unlocks innovation, which in turns spawns new products or services, thereby enabling further economic growth. Hence, an information system unlocking scientific technical knowledge is an important asset for government policy and ...

Innovations are usually conceived as new technical products aimed for commercial markets. However, the interest for innovations in the public sector is increasing and accompanying this interest follows a need for deeper knowledge about public sector innovation. A co-learning program among public sector organisations has been carried out in order to enhance innovation knowledge among public admi...

Co-opetition is an important characteristic of innovation processes. We illustrate this with reference to a case: a service innovation project in Nice, named Cityzi. Cityzi is a local subprocess in the globally dispersed efforts to develop and implement services enabled by the NFC (Near Field Communication) technique that can be used for mobile communication. The project requires cooperation, a...

An innovation-diffusion model was developed with agent-based modelling (ABM); the model is used to study technical innovation and its diffusion process in China. The results are as follows: only a small fraction of firms conduct independent product-innovation, and most firms prefer imitation and/or purchases; most of the innovative firms are located in the East; approximately three or four tech...

This article argues that prizes can help stimulate medical innovation, control costs and ensure greater access to new medicines and vaccines. The authors explore four increasingly ambitious prize options to reward medical innovation, each addressing flaws in the current patent system. The first option promotes innovation through a large prize fund linked to the impact on health outcomes; the se...

Information Systems (IS) are integrated systems for providing information to support operations, processes, management analysis and decision-making functions in an organisation [1]. The IS area is characterised by rapid technical change and innovation. In recent years there has been a shift in IS from technological to managerial and organisational issues. This shift has led to increased interes...