TY - JOUR
T1 - Strategies for Activating Innovation Ecosystems
T2 - Introduction of a Taxonomy
AU - Nylund, Petra A.
AU - Ferrás-Hernández, X.
AU - Brem, Alexander
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is a contribution to the Strategic Research Plan of the Czech Geological Survey (DKRVO/ČGS 2018–2022). The research was supported by the Czech Geological Survey grant No. 338600 , by Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Research Grant No. GA 19-15405S of the Czech Grant Agency. We thank the University of Heidelberg for sample analysis and V. Bláha, L. Erbanová, J. Farkaš, H. Gilíková, H. Vysoká, I. Soejono, I. J. Dvořák, M. Rajchl, O. Šnytr, J. Dvořák, T. Vorel, J. Grundloch, D. Hardekopf and F. Oulehle for assistance.
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PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - Managers need to actively drive the growth of innovation ecosystems. This paper describes the obstacles companies face when commercializing innovations and identifies strategies for overcoming these barriers through activating innovation ecosystems. We explore three ecosystems at different stages of maturity, namely San Francisco, Barcelona, and Nairobi, and derive a taxonomy of strategies for activating innovation ecosystems with regard to the maturity of the ecosystem. The paper thus contributes to the wealth of knowledge concerning the commercialization of innovations in general and within innovation ecosystems in particular. We fill a gap in the understanding of the stages of maturity of innovation ecosystems, and the corresponding actions required by managers and policy makers. Policy makers and other actors can incentivize ecosystem development through adapting initiatives to the maturity of the ecosystem in question.
AB - Managers need to actively drive the growth of innovation ecosystems. This paper describes the obstacles companies face when commercializing innovations and identifies strategies for overcoming these barriers through activating innovation ecosystems. We explore three ecosystems at different stages of maturity, namely San Francisco, Barcelona, and Nairobi, and derive a taxonomy of strategies for activating innovation ecosystems with regard to the maturity of the ecosystem. The paper thus contributes to the wealth of knowledge concerning the commercialization of innovations in general and within innovation ecosystems in particular. We fill a gap in the understanding of the stages of maturity of innovation ecosystems, and the corresponding actions required by managers and policy makers. Policy makers and other actors can incentivize ecosystem development through adapting initiatives to the maturity of the ecosystem in question.
KW - Commercialization
KW - disruptive innovation
KW - innovation
KW - innovation ecosystems
KW - strategy
KW - urban innovation
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85070366467
U2 - 10.1109/EMR.2019.2931696
DO - 10.1109/EMR.2019.2931696
M3 - Review
AN - SCOPUS:85070366467
SN - 0360-8581
VL - 47
SP - 60
EP - 66
JO - IEEE Engineering Management Review
JF - IEEE Engineering Management Review
IS - 4
M1 - 8778716
ER -