Dissertations / Theses: '150307 Innovation and Technology Management'

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Wikstrom, Patrik. "Reluctantly virtual : modelling copyright industry dynamics." Thesis, Karlstad University, Sweden, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/67930/1/FULLTEXT01.pdf.

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During the evolution of the music industry, developments in the media environment have required music firms to adapt in order to survive. Changes in broadcast radio programming during the 1950s; the Compact Cassette during the 1970s; and the deregulation of media ownership during the 1990s are all examples of changes which have heavily affected the music industry. This study explores similar contemporary dynamics, examines how decision makers in the music industry perceive and make sense of the developments, and reveals how they revise their business strategies, based on their mental models of the media environment. A qualitative system dynamics model is developed in order to support the reasoning brought forward by the study. The model is empirically grounded, but is also based on previous music industry research and a theoretical platform constituted by concepts from evolutionary economics and sociology of culture. The empirical data primarily consist of 36 personal interviews with decision makers in the American, British and Swedish music industrial ecosystems. The study argues that the model which is proposed, more effectively explains contemporary music industry dynamics than music industry models presented by previous research initiatives. Supported by the model, the study is able to show how “new” media outlets make old music business models obsolete and challenge the industry’s traditional power structures. It is no longer possible to expose music at one outlet (usually broadcast radio) in the hope that it will lead to sales of the same music at another (e.g. a compact disc). The study shows that many music industry decision makers still have not embraced the new logic, and have not yet challenged their traditional mental models of the media environment. Rather, they remain focused on preserving the pivotal role held by the CD and other physical distribution technologies. Further, the study shows that while many music firms remain attached to the old models, other firms, primarily music publishers, have accepted the transformation, and have reluctantly recognised the realities of a virtualised environment.

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Bilandzic, Ana. "New approaches to developing and commercialising IP from research in universities using open innovation." Thesis, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/98400/1/thesis_ana.pdf.

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There has been increasing interest in open innovation in academic research as well as industry application since the concept was introduced in 2003. The concept got much attention because of its economic benefits and novel means for facilitating innovation. This thesis aims to adapt the concept of open innovation to the university environment, in order to foster innovation in the development process for intellectual property (IP) derived from academic research activities. It contributes to the literature on open innovation adapted to the university context, i.e. open collaboration on the development of intellectual property towards a commercial ready stage. In order to investigate the potential of open innovation in the university environment, a focus group was conducted. In addition, the business process of Quirky Inc. was analysed as an example to better understand how open innovation works in the business context. The results of the study’s data analyses inform new opportunities for interventions in universities towards fostering different approaches to IP development as research outcomes. Further, it reveals interventions that can promote open innovation approaches in the university’s context more generally.

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Casadevall, Dario. "Skunkworks Finder: A Design Study into the Diverse Ecosystem of Creativity and Innovation Spaces." Thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat München, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/122139/1/Masterthesis_DarioCasadevall%20Kopie.pdf.

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Creative people, entrepreneurs and start-up founders using innovation spaces and hubs often find themselves inside a filter bubble or echo chamber, where like-minded people tend to come up with similar ideas and recommend similar approaches to innovation. This trend towards homophily and a polarisation of like-mindedness is aggravated by algorithmic filtering and recommender systems embedded in current technology and social media platforms. Yet, genuine innovation thrives on social inclusion fostering a diversity of ideas. To provide the opportunity to escape these echo chambers, Skunkworks Finder was designed and tested – an exploratory tool that employs social network analysis to help users discover spaces of difference and otherness in their local urban innovation ecosystem. A design inclusive research approach was adapted focusing on user-centred design choices in order to verify and validate the prototype and its according premise. Results show, that an introduction of Skunkworks Finder or similar functionality is anticipated by study participants, as participants indicated individual experiences of forming filter bubbles in innovation spaces. However, changes in design would improve comprehensibility issues addressed during the user study. Additionally, an integration of such a system into an established online tool would ensure a distribution to a wider audience, than focusing only on potential users who are already affiliated with an innovation environment.

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Toft, P. N. "Management of innovation in school technology." Thesis, University of Salford, 1988. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/14795/.

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This thesis documents and evaluates two associated topics of action research in the form of case studies in school technology. Its emphasis is on the role of strategic planning in the management of innovation within this increasingly important area of the English school curriculum. The research was carried out during a period in which British industrial innovation, and its effective management, was seen to be crucial to the nation's economic well being in the face of international competition. Growing acceptance of the importance of technology in general schooling, evidenced by its inclusion in the national curriculum embodied in the 1988 Education Reform Act, is set against the interlinked cultural, epistemological and professional barriers to its acceptance as high status activity within schools. It is argued that considerable energy expenditure is required before the intentions of the Reform Act become reality, and that innovation will need to be effectively managed. The study is therefore set against a review of the literature of innovation management in three spheres: curriculum development; the diffusion of Innovations; and industrial management. The first case study examines the implementation of an innovatory interpretation of the school subject Craft, Design and Technology (CDT) within the City of Manchester Education Authority. It tests the feasibility of developing a 'concept base' approach to CDT by teachers collaborating and being supported by the authority's inspector for CDT. It concludes that the innovation in a simple form is feasible, given that certain conditions and levels of resourcing can be met, but that in a more elaborate form, the innovation is severely problematic. The turbulence and rapid change being experienced within schools in the late nineteen eighties increases the severity of these problems. The second case study describes a project carried out in the North West of England in which various local education authorities and institutions of higher education collaborated to reduce perceived severe qualitative and quantitative shortages of CDT teachers. Five project aims were tested within the research and it is concluded that under certain conditions they are achievable, but that collaboration between institutions with different goals and customs is difficult, and that the quality of management information available to CDT staffing decision makers in the region W4S insufficiently accurate or sophisticated for effective innovation to proceed. In conclusion, certain generalisations are made relating to the effective management of innovation in school technology. These include: the inevitability of transactional distortion of objectives in the journey from intention-to outcome; the need to formulate and understand objectives and defend them from this drift, albeit in flexible ways; the need for incentives and central control in such collaborative endeavours; and finally the need for simple and effective communications within innovations.

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Roxo, da Fonseca Gustavo J. C. (Gustavo José Costa) 1967. "Technology innovation in financial services industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17891.

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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-98).
Over the last few decades, we have seen an enormous evolution in the financial services industry driven by technology innovations. Indeed, we cannot imagine the current financial system without electronic fund transfers, ATMs, and Internet banking among many other innovative implementations. In fact, the financial services industry is the largest market to IT suppliers which makes the financial providers the preferred partners in many technological innovations such as mobile technologies, security devices and customer relationship management (CRM) tools. Although the importance of technology innovation is clear in transforming the financial services industry, we do not often find organizations getting sustainable competitive advantage though technology innovation. In fact, in most cases, financial providers have just been focused on being as good as the competition in terms of technology innovation, neglecting any sophisticated technology strategy that could enable them to primarily capture the value created by internal innovative ideas. The goal of this research is to evaluate the stage of technology innovation in the financial services industry, its strategic relevance to the organizations, and its governance models. Based on the information gathered through reviewing relevant literature and interviewing people involved with technology and financial services, our work will propose some technology strategies that could improve the effectiveness of innovation to different types of financial providers.
by Gustavo J.C. Roxo da Fonseca.
M.B.A.

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Della, Valle Fabio. "Blockchain technology: driving innovation in the supply chain." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672999.

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This thesis presents a study of blockchain impacts for supply chain (SC) application. By conducting explorative research, the thesis presents a grounded theory analysis based on eighteen interviews with international experts from different fields such as academics, business and institutional representatives. The study is divided into four phases: the first phase begins with the analysis and identification of the type of innovation for blockchain in SC; the second phase analyzes the effective combination between blockchain technologies and SC management processes; the third phase introduces the major influences affecting SC operations for a blockchain transition in SC; and the fourth one presents a use case. The research results show that blockchain for SC presents all features to be a sustaining innovation rather than disruptive. However, results confirmed that SCs appear to be one of the most prominent fields of application for blockchain, and a blockchain-based SC fits in supplier relationship management processes and financial business units. Lastly, to mitigate risks, the analysis also identified elements that may support digital transition procedures in SCs. The thesis concludes by merging all results found and provides suggestions for future research perspectives.
Aquesta tesi presenta un estudi de l’impacte de blockchain en las eva aplicació a les cadenes de subministrament (supply-chain o SC). Mitjançant la realització d’una recerca exploratòria la tesi presenta una anàlisi fonamentada en divuit entrevistes amb experts internacionals de diferents camps, com ara representants acadèmics, empresarials i institucionals. La recerca es divideix en quatre fases: la primera fase comença amb l’anàlisi i la identificació del tipus d’innovació per a la blockchain a SC; la segona fase analitza la combinació efectiva entre les tecnologies de blockchain i els processos de gestió de SC; la tercera fase introdueix les principals influències que afecten les operacions de SC per a una transició blockchain a SC; i el quart presenta un cas d'ús concret. Els resultats de la investigació mostren que blockchain per a SC presenta totes les característiques d’una innovació evolutiva més que disruptiva. No obstant això, els resultats van confirmar que les SC són un dels camps d’aplicació amb més projecció per a blockchain i que una SC basada en blockchain s’adapta millor als processos de gestió de relacions amb proveïdors i a les unitats de negoci financeres. Finalment, per mitigar els riscos, l’anàlisi també va identificar elements que poden donar suport als procediments de transició digital en les SC. La tesi conclou presentant els resultats trobats i proporciona suggeriments per a futures perspectives de recerca.

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Moeini, Ebrahim. "Technology management and innovation in strategic industries in Iran." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270986.

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Laegreid, Trygve 1959. "Technology strategy and innovation management in the petroleum industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8886.

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Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2001.
"June 2001."
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-69).
The petroleum industry is a mature commodity business and a high- technology business characterized by a relatively high rate of innovation. Probably the world's largest industry even today, the petroleum industry has an interesting history that has shaped the dynamic energy landscape. The petroleum industry is composed of two groups of companies: the petroleum companies and the oilfield service and sμpply companies. Through mergers and acquisitions BP has grown to the third largest petroleum company and the world's 17th largest company. Statoil is a middle tier petroleum company. Both Statoil and BP are integrated oil companies. This thesis studies the technology strategy and innovation management practices in the two petroleum companies Statoil and BP. A literature review presents the central concepts and models that have been developed in the fields of general strategy, technology strategy and innovation management. The main strategy features are alignment between business, technology and research, underpinned by processes, structures, incentives and culture, and an intelligent user strategy focused on cost reduction. The management of innovation emphasizes cooperation across organizational boundaries, a free and effective market approach to ideas, innovation and technology, and a low appropriability regime for technology. The thesis points to weaknesses and problems related to the present strategy. The present strategy is weak in competitive advantage. The free and effective market that underpins the user strategy is vulnerable. The alignment strategy can lead to strategic and organizational inertia and preclude necessary change. Alignment must be combined with adaptability to be sustainable. The strategy of internationalization through technology leverage requires an ambidextrous organization.
by Trygve Laegreid.
S.M.M.O.T.

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Ling, Yang, and Zhou Lingxi. "How to enhance innovation management in manufacturing companies." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Industrial Development, IT and Land Management, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-7614.

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This thesis aims at how to enhance innovation management in the companies. Collecting the data by surveys which we have sent to five Swedish companies. Through studying the theories and analyzing the data, then we got a new model about how to enhance innovation management. Through the survey and literatures studies, we found that innovation was the most important for an enterprise; it is a power of enterprise survival and development. To enhance the innovation capability, enterprises must strengthen their innovation management. How to enhance the innovation management effectively? With this purpose question, we have analyzed it through management idea innovation, technology innovation and culture innovation. Through the survey analysis and the theories study, there are 9 factors should be considered when the innovation management has launched .the company should know how to balance the dilemma of innovation, moreover, leader own the open views and offer a loose and free environment to the employees, then choosing a right partner and gain more support in form of fund and technology and so on. At last, we created a new model about enhancing innovation management. In conclusion, innovation management should be taken be an active state in organization operation with the management idea innovation, technology innovation and culture innovation.

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Taber, Terry R. (Terry Ray). "Innovation--keeping it alive at established technology firms." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10498.

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Qu, Zhe. "Three essays on the economics of information technology innovation." Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24777.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.
Committee Chair: Narasimhan, Sridhar; Committee Member: Li, Haizheng; Committee Member: Slaughter, Sandra; Committee Member: Thursby, Marie; Committee Member: Zhang, Han.

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Schweizer, Daniel. "Methodology to manage process technology innovation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59170.

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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division; in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, 2010.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-65).
The research conducted for this thesis was performed at "Company X", a U.S.-based engineered goods manufacturer. This project focused on the company's Advanced Manufacturing group and its process technology development methodology. The newly founded Advanced Manufacturing group started multiple innovation projects, but did not successfully implement any of them so far. Lack of organizational integration, an overall R&D strategy, as well as a defined innovation methodology negatively affected the difficult situation of that small group of engineers. This project seeks to compare the innovation methodology and process technology development of Advanced Manufacturing with best practices from similar industries as well as literature. An analysis of how to choose the right R&D projects, as well as how to execute these projects, demonstrates the differences between Company X and other organizations that are considered innovative. Case studies of a specific R&D project, in addition to an interdisciplinary workgroup of Advanced Manufacturing, highlight the positive and negative characteristics of the current innovation process. The results of this analysis provide Company X with additional insights how to use the existing innovation resources more successfully. Recommendations provided in this thesis can be used by Company X to support future technology development projects but also to help the newly founded task force that started to develop a company-wide innovation strategy (process and product innovation). Keywords: Product Development, Process Development, Advanced Manufacturing, Innovation.
by Daniel Schweizer.
S.M.
M.B.A.

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Zelten, J. Peter. "Digital photography and the dynamics of technology innovation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29174.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 96).
Companies heavily and successfully invested in traditional technologies (defenders) often find it difficult to make the transitions to new disruptive technologies, in spite of technological competence and clear opportunity to do so. The core competencies that enabled the firm to excel under the old paradigms become core rigidities when faced with the need to address technological discontinuities. Products like digital still cameras, DSCs, represent the convergence of multiple rapidly changing technologies in electronics, optics, computers, networks, and software. The emergence and adoption of digital still photography both accompanies and defines a new paradigm in the sharing of images as it attempts to both emulate and replace the previous modalities while creating new market-expanding opportunities. The emergence of digital still photography has been predicted and promised for several decades. Indeed, it has already managed to replace silver halide altogether in certain market segments previously relied upon by conventional photography firms, and is at present extending beyond the early adopter stage in the broader consumer market. It is a current example of innovation and technological discontinuity, and one that has enough history to permit analysis. It poses a real potential disruptive threat to the incumbent players, some of which have succumbed while others apparently succeeded. This thesis studies the relationships between the development of the composite technologies in digital photography, the environment in which they operate, the emergence of dominant designs, market diffusion, and the strategies for success employed by leading participants. In the process of studying patterns of entry and exit firms and a detailed look at their products, evidence of a dominant design and support in this industry for the Abernathy and Utterback model of industrial innovation is uncovered. Also revealed is a second wave of innovation in the DSC industry that is firmly established and suggests the onset of a Christiansen-style disruptive dynamic. By studying this specific technological discontinuity in the context of the broader patterns, lessons in adapting to technological change in general are learned.
by J. Peter Zelten.
S.M.

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Reddy, Harry 1963. "Global business strategy and innovation in banking." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17882.

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Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 151-152).
The banking industry is known to have certainty only about uncertainty, change is only constant in adopting the technologies for developing innovative products and services, and yet the opportunities of arbitrage are everywhere including in economical settings and business strategies. The retail banking industry will be analyzed to understand why some banks make sustainable profits while others are less successful. We will analyze what business strategies would best work for such dynamic industry even as banking appears to be a commodity business. A systematic study will be set out to model the dynamics of different positioning of Delta Model and the effect of the underlying interactions. We will walk through the analysis of why the innovation along with the customer targeting and the operational effectiveness are crucial to implement the right business strategies. We also study banking case studies relevant to the business strategies. Finally, we present the conclusions with some recommendations in order for banks to thrive in the industry for years to come during both war times and peace times.
by Harry Reddy.
S.M.M.O.T.

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Kameda, Mitsuhiro 1971. "Disruptive innovation : value change and complementary change." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17867.

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Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-93).
I expand Christensen's concept and classify two disruptive technologies, company disruptive technology and product disruptive technology. The company disruptive technology is Christensen's definition itself. The product disruptive technology is the disruptive one outside his definition, for example the digital still camera (DSC). I will discuss about some cases, such as a case of high-end disruption, in this expanded definition. Company disruption follows product disruption. Targeting "company" is useful for making strategies, but it is not enough to target only "company" disruptive innovation because the product disruption sometimes badly damages or kills companies. Complementors, such as other products, law, environment etc, are also very important when we consider the disruptive technology, because they change the value criteria of the product performance. It is very important for us to take advantage of complementors in order to grow the disruptive technology. Disruption is a process and it does not always disrupt everything. The disruption is limited in the case of value-change disruption and another disruption is usually required to disrupt a product which falls outside the immediate influence of the first disruption. The disruptions must be happen one after another to disrupt all in the case of the value-change disruption. Circumstances also limit the impact of product disruption. Therefore, it is very useful for one to check and consider a disruptive technology from the viewpoints of both the value criteria and the circumstances.
by Mitsuhiro Kameda.
S.M.M.O.T.

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Ebbvik-Neuman, Jonas, and Leo Neuman. "Innovation management inom den finansiella sektorn : Hur storbanker och fintechbolag arbetar med innovation management i Sverige." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Företagsekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-43880.

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Med en utvecklingstakt som ökar exponentiellt, där ny teknologi och globalisering ärframåtdrivande faktorer, är det inte konstigt att det har blivit viktigare för företag att förändraoch utveckla sig om de vill fortsätta vara konkurrenskraftiga. Att kontinuerligt innovera ärnumer vitalt för att långsiktigt lyckas på en marknad. Som nästan alla sektorer och branscherså har den finansiella sektorn erfarit stora förändringar. Ny teknologi har gjort det möjligt förföretag att erbjuda smarta finansiella tjänster, något som hotar de traditionella storbankernasvinster och marknadsinnehav. Innovation management är ett forskningsämne som handlar omhur organisationer strukturerat kan styra, och arbeta med, sitt innovationsarbete och viidentifierade ett forskningsgap avseende hur svenska företag, inom den finansiella sektorn,arbetar med innovation management. Genom en komparativ fallstudie, baserad på primärtsemistrukturerade intervjuer med en efterföljande tematisk analys, undersökte vi hur svenskastorbanker och fintechbolag gör detta. Den teoretiska utgångspunkten skedde i Tidd ochBessants (2018) modell över innovation management och vi identifierade både likheter ochskillnader mellan de undersökta fallen. Resultaten tyder på att samtliga undersökta företagaktivt arbetar med innovation management, i olika mån. Exempelvis återfanns det likhetermellan företagens innovationsfaser, hur de betonade vikten av kontinuerlig innovation och enbalans mellan att utforska och utnyttja. Men fintecbolagen applicerade exempelvis flermetoder för att uppnå ett högt innovationsengagemang medan storbankerna fokuserade merpå inkrementell innovation internt och hämtade mer disruptiva komponenter från den externamiljön. Flera skillnader mellan storbankerna och fintechbolagen sinsemellan identifieradesockså. Resultaten bidrar till att öka förståelsen för innovation management och bidrar såledesbåde till teorin och praktiken.

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Iguchi, Yasushi 1969. "Strategies for innovation in the Japanese banking industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17872.

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Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 132).
In this study, I identify and discuss innovation strategies for the Japanese banking industry, with special focus on the R&D process through which banks are seeking to create new e-business opportunities. Traditionally, it was thought to be difficult to undertake well-organized R&D activities in a service industry because the intangible nature of banking services made it difficult to conduct R&D in a typical laboratory setting. Therefore, many service firms did not organize formal R&D activities. Furthermore, Japanese banks faced environmental obstacles to innovation, including government regulations, non-performing loans, and legacy assets that were difficult to abandon, such as the backbone banking system supported by major mainframe architecture. Today, emerging Internet technologies are at last triggering R&D activities among Japanese banks, and they are achieving some success in this field. This thesis identifies empirical R&D methods that have become more commonly used by Japanese banks, as well as the problems encountered in the effort to generate creative and effective ideas, screen them, perform trial-and-error iterations, and manage tests on real-life situations to gain customer input. I identify four factors that can help banks achieve innovation: managing institutional matters, managing legacy assets, acquiring a better understanding of customer needs, and organizing reality tests early to obtain feedback and make appropriate responses. The thesis begins by introducing some formal, empirical R&D methods. Next, I describe the business and technology environment of the Japanese banking industry, and depict the difficult situations that hamper innovation in the industry. Then, I review various organizational issues facing
(cont.) R&D in banking, followed by an analysis of the actual R&D processes taken in actual cases undertaken by the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi.
by Yasushi Iguchi.
S.M.M.O.T.

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Nouman, Muhammad. "Low-technology innovation in a sectoral system : a critical realist perspective." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2011. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/192529/.

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This research aims to generate an in-depth understanding of the existence or nonexistence of low-technology innovation from a sectoral system of innovation (SSI) perspective. Embedded in the critical realist paradigm, this study espouses the notion of a stratified ontology. Moreover, it considers innovation to be systemic and nonsequential influenced by multiple objects and their relations. Deriving from a systematic literature review, this research addresses knowledge gaps including lack of an exclusive and all-encompassing understanding of LT innovation from the critical realist and SSI perspectives. It also addresses the lack of research on the influence of individual within firm, various sectoral elements and sectoral structure on LT innovation through use of a conceptual framework derived from systems thinking, SSI and micro-meso-macro (individual-firm-contextual) framework. Empirically rooted in the marble industry of north-west Pakistan, this research applies retroduction to explain causal mechanisms by understanding events, objects/entities, necessary and contingent relations and causal powers. Following case study approach a multiple (two) case design (embedded type 4) having two cases/sectors, Peshawar Marble Sectoral System (PeMaS) and Buner Marble Sectoral System (BuMaS) has been chosen. A case study protocol has been applied to increase reliability along with a three-phased data collection, the use of mixed methods and a two-step analysis procedure. Research outcomes reveal limited occurrences of incremental LT innovation amongst firms (events). The lack of innovation is a result of the systemic interplay of many sectoral elements identified and presented as the causal mechanisms of stasis. Moreover, the causal mechanisms that can result in LT innovation have been provided, a significant contribution that critical realism makes to the work. Seventy factors (causal powers) that explain the lack of LT innovation categorized across elements/objects and micro-meso-macro origins are discovered. These help identify the extant but latent causal powers that underlie the occurrence of LT innovation. The research makes a number of key contributions. It draws influence from critical realism to understand LT innovation and integrates its tenets with empirical work through use of mixed methods, as opposed to the predominant use of positivism and phenomenology found in previous research. It offers a unique and previously non-existent perspective of the SSI that is all-encompassing and exhaustive. Particularly, it addresses the lack of research on the sectoral elements including individual, learning processes and demand as well as the sectoral structure. Moreover, it complements the SSI approach with a first-time use of a micro-meso-macro (individual-firm-contextual) framework to offer a powerful explanation of the complex interplay within a low-tech SSI. Finally, this research addresses the lack of empirical work on LT innovation from a developing country context

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Kamtsiou, Evanthia. "Meso-level co-innovation dynamic roadmapping for managing systemic innovations." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/14270.

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The proposed research aspires to provide new insight on issues of applied Roadmapping and advance the state of the art in Roadmapping and its practice. It provides a conceptual model and an integrated process framework for the development of a Third Generation, Meso-level, Co-innovation Dynamic Roadmapping (from now on called ‘Dynamic Roadmapping’), which integrates policy, research, industry, and organisational roadmapping methodologies, in order to manage the development and adoption of systemic innovations in complex domains. It has been developed to meet the needs of increasingly complex systemic innovations where multiple organisations are involved as co-innovators and many other intermediaries and decision makers need to be included in the innovation adoption process. These types of innovations are usually driven by the interplay of multi-dimensional and cross-impacting factors derived from changes in social, market, economic, political and technology systems. Thus, the ‘Dynamic Roadmapping’ does not presuppose a single desired future for complex domains, but several futures, based on the complementary strategic perspectives of inter-dependent stakeholders, which need to be contextualised and negotiated at various sectoral, national and regional levels in order to be adopted. The ‘Dynamic Roadmapping’ approach supports the achievement of the realisation of the desired futures through two main components: a ‘co-innovation group’ and an ‘observatory function’. The co-innovation group is formed from all the necessary co-innovators, adopters, decision makers and users that are needed in order for the innovations to be developed and adopted. Their function is predominately ‘normative’ describing “what they want to happen” and “how” it will happen. The observatory function provides foresight and sense making methodologies to the co-innovation group, in order to constantly review and adapt their roadmaps in light of the emerging changes that can impact the roadmaps’ realisation and adoption. A conceptual model and its theoretical grounding have been built in order to bridge support for roadmapping activities among different innovative communities (e.g. in policy, research, industry and practice) and foster their collaboration via stakeholders’ innovation networks. The proposed conceptual model and its process framework have been evaluated in a case study in order to establish its validity in the European context and provide implications to theory and practice. A pilot of this framework is first implemented for the area of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). The impact of this research is: - Managing uncertainty in Future planning - Managing and implementing emergent Roadmaps for systemic innovations - Monitoring and adapt the produced Roadmaps according to change factors in emerging reality - Ensure their adoption in complex domain This research work has been funded by an EU Marie-Curry Fellowship grant via the DYRECT project no. 255182. The proposed integrated framework has been adopted by the EU TEL-Map project (in education sector) and EU CRe-AM project (in creative industry sector). It has been documented in many European project deliverables as well as in international conference papers, and in journal papers.

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Kollarova, Sona. "Innovation and Advanced Technology Use in the Canadian Forest Sector." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31594.

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The forest sector is traditionally viewed as stagnant and non-innovative in comparison to higher-value added industries. The sector is being challenged by environmental, market and consumer changes at home and internationally. To combat these challenges, forestry firms must undergo a transformation in their activities, including their production methods by producing innovative and sustainable products and materials. This involves investing in innovation, advanced technologies and new products. The purpose of this study is to understand the impact of adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies on firm performance in the Canadian forest sector. The study is based on data from the 2007 Survey of Advanced Technology and interviews with technology adopters. The differences between technology adopters and non-adopters in terms of capital investment, R&D, training, management practices and innovation were analyzed. The findings suggest that the adoption of advanced technologies is important for the realizations of innovations. Firms which were both innovative and adopted technology were most likely to report improvements in performance post-adoption.

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Bakry, Faridah Mustaffa. "Management innovation, radical innovation and business performance : the role of knowledge resources for high technology SMEs." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2013. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23188.

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According to the strategy, innovation, and knowledge-based literatures, the notion that SMEs can enhance their innovation ability by developing knowledge resources has become important for achieving competitive advantage and long-term survival. Building upon theoretical work on the knowledge-based view and innovation management literature, this research examines how the management innovation related to radical innovation and how knowledge resources and management innovation influences on business practices and these effects differ across context of an economy. The conceptual model was developed and aims to answer three important questions. RQ1: What is the relationship between management innovation and radical innovation? RQ2: How does this relationship mediate between the development of company resources and business performance? RQ3: What is the impact of the economic environment (developed vs. developing economy) on the relationships between resources, management innovation, rad ical innovation and performance? This study examines the four knowledge resources: humanware (employees' knowledge and learning), techware (technological skills and knowledge), infoware (information management) and orgware (organization's values and norms) that impact a firm's management innovation and radical innovation and affects the success of SMEs. The model is tested with data collected from 123 British high technology SMEs and 133 Malaysian high technology SMEs. The empirical result for the UK dataset shows that humanware and techware contributed to the development of management innovation. The result specified that management innovation is an antecedent to radical innovation. The results also found that the indirect effects of infoware and orgware on performance occur through management innovation. The Malaysian dataset shows that techware and orgware are antecedents for the management innovation, which in turn are antecedents to radical innovation and business performance. Humanware and infoware have an indirect impact on business performance by facilitating management innovation that in turn fosters business performance. The results show that management innovation is important for a developed country, meanwhile for a developing country radical innovation is important. The evidence shows that management innovation is the mediator for the developed country and not for the developing country. Therefore, this finding concludes that the innovation model in the developed country is not applicable for the developing country. This research has noteworthy implications for both researchers and practitioners by (1) Providing guidelines for high-technology SME's in developed and developing countries about knowledge resources, management innovation, radical innovation and firms' business performance, (2) The innovation literature needs to consider empirically how knowledge resources enhance radical innovation and performance when management innovation is implemented and (3) Indicating that the most important manifestation of the different knowledge resources leads to the success of management innovation for SME success in the high - technology industry. Limitations in current research may create avenues for future research in terms of number of countries, companies, methodologies, innovation types and resources.

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Zadeh, Rodan 1970. "Evolution of innovation : fiber optics and the communications industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17878.

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Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-94).
Innovations can be the single source of industry's growth. How innovations themselves grow or decline also has a direct affect on the health of the industry in which they play. This thesis looks at fiber optic technologies and their impact on the communications industry. The relative importance of the fiber optic technology is evidenced by its speed and effectiveness in shaping the communications infrastructure in a short period of the recent years. Advent of this relatively new technology, coupled with deregulation policies and the changes in the nature of the network traffic, has caused several disruptions to the communications value chain. Effects of these disruptions and their eventualities are the focus of this thesis. To study these effects, this thesis looks in detail at the interplay of various life cycle stages of innovations and industry. The innovation stages are classified as: Fluid, Transitional, and Specific. Each of these three stages affects the dynamics value chain of the industry in different ways. The characteristics of each stage are studied in detail. There are few innovations that can bring about an impact as extensive as the advent of fiber optics communications has. The review of the processes in the evolution of innovation from birth to potential re- birth provides great insights on the industry's life cycle. The study is based on current theories on the subject of management of technology applied to the communications sector. Most examples and data are based on the telecommunication networks in North America; the timeline of the study is the decade from mid 1990's to present. In closing various strategies in treading the evolution of innovation are described. The evolution life cycle
(cont.) model can be used in several other industries for managing innovation and technologies. Several related research topics are described, and citations for further suggested readings on the topic are provided.
by Rodan Zadeh.
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Jarmooka, Qabas. "An Examination of the Nexus between Innovation, Knowledge Management and Information Communication Technology." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2017. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1976.

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The purpose of this thesis is to explore how knowledge management processes (KMP) and information and communications technology (ICT) impact on the innovation performance of Australian organisations. Innovation is well established as an essential core capability for enterprises that intend to be sustainable and develop. This study brings these two areas of study together to explore what actions have the greatest utility in generating innovative performance. This thesis aims to extend the literature by bringing together ICT, KMP and innovation performance into a single study. This research specifically investigated the relationship between ICT and KMP by disaggregating these constructs to identify nuances between the components to provide a more insightful understanding of this relationship. Also, this research examined the relationship between ICT and KMP and a broad range of innovation performance that has been investigated in previous studies. This study comprehensively assessed through a broad management survey how enterprises employed specific aspects of KMP and ICT, and what impact these actions had on subsequent innovation performance in terms of innovation of products and services, innovation quality and customer satisfaction with innovation. A quantitative approach was taken in examining the roles of ICT and KMP in improving innovation performance by building on the components of ICT and KMP embedded in previous studies. The survey explored the relationship between the components of ICT and KMP as well as investigating the relationship between the independent variables of ICT with KMP and the dependent variables associated with innovation performance. Five hundred industry managers in the sectors of the business community were surveyed through internet responses and telephone interviews, with 148 completed responses from information communication and technology managers, knowledge management managers and technical managers from medium and large Australian companies. The findings indicate that overall ICT use positively affected each element of KMP: knowledge creation (KC), internal knowledge sharing and storage (IKSS), and external knowledge sharing (EKS). It was also found that the different forms of these technologies had a differential impact on KMP, with at least one component of ICT having a significant influence on each component of the KMP dimensions. In addition, the empirical evidence in this study indicated that while overall KMP positively influenced each aspect of innovation performance, only the KC component of KMP seemed to uniquely affect the three aspects of innovation performance (process, outputs and customer satisfaction with innovation). Finally, the evidence showed that each element of innovation performance was found to be positively related to overall ICT use but that only the capture technology (CaT) had a significant unique influence on all forms of innovation performance. Scholars can use these results to examine further the impact of specific elements of ICT use and KMP on the different components of innovation performance through a larger sample of managers in diverse cultures, while also exploring the rationale and approach of action through a qualitative study. Practitioners can use these findings to improve their local processes of innovation by investing in specific ICT and KM projects that are relevant to their context and are likely to impact on particular components of innovative activity. For managers and enterprises wishing to develop their innovative capability, the findings of this study provide a framework for development and action.

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Chowchuvech, Pornpratarn. "The culture difference influence on management when innovation occurs in Ericsson Company : GRADUATION PROEJCT IN INNOVATION MANAGMENT." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-12443.

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Wågström, Greta, and Gustav Meisner. "Innovation Management : Evaluation Criteria for Idea Selection." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-252750.

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Innovation outside the company’s core business is essential for any company in a fast-changing environment. Companies that want to engage in strategic innovation in order to embrace emerging opportunities need ways of managing the innovation process. There is currently limited research on how to select among and evaluate innovation proposals for emerging opportunities in the context of intrapreneurship. This master thesis investigates how an incumbent high-tech company that promote intrapreneurship uses criteria in the selection process of innovation proposals. The study conducts an embedded single-case study of the case company, referred to as Company A, by collecting qualitative data through archival documents and 19 semi-structured interviews. The study uses Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation to analyse the results. Findings show that an incumbent high-tech company uses a set of criteria that is a mix of the previous findings in the context of new product development and external investors. The criteria utilized in the selection process are within the dimensions market and value, product and technology, operations and financials, corporate alignment, and team. The conducted interviews exposed that personal considerations constitute additional informal criteria for the evaluators, and much emphasis is put on the intrapreneur’s characteristics and presentation. Findings from the interviews suggest that criteria should be utilized less strict in the beginning of the process, which is supported by previous researchers. Criteria also contribute with transparency to the innovation process and can be used as guidelines for the innovator. Christensen’s theory contradicts the use of the criteria market size, corporate alignment and to validate the innovation with a customer because of the nature of emerging markets and technologies.
Innovation utanför företagets kärnverksamhet är viktigt för alla företag på en snabbt föränderlig marknad. Företag som vill satsa på strategisk innovation för att kunna ta tillvara på nya möjligheter behöver metoder för att kunna hantera innovationsprocessen. Detta examensarbete undersöker hur ett etablerat högteknologiskt företag som främjar intraprenörskap använder kriterier i urvalsprocessen att välja mellan olika innovationsförslag. Studien genomför en fallstudie genom att studera ett bolag, benämnt företag A, och samlar in kvalitativa data genom arkivdokument och 19 semistrukturerade intervjuer. Studien använder Christensens teori om disruptiv innovation för att analysera resultaten. Resultaten visar att det studerade högteknologiska företaget använder ett antal kriterier som stöds av tidigare forskares resultat inom området produktutveckling och externa investerare. Kriterierna som identifieras i studien är inom dimensionerna marknad och värdeskapande, produkt och teknik, företagsverksamhet och ekonomi, hur väl innovationen passar företaget och team. Intervjuerna avslöjade att personliga överväganden utgör ytterligare informella kriterier för de som utvärderar, som lägger stor vikt på intraprenörens egenskaper och presentation. Resultaten tyder på att kriterierna bör användas mindre strikt i början av processen, vilket stöds av tidigare forskning. Kriterier bidrar också till insyn i innovationsprocessen och kan användas som riktlinjer för innovatören. Christensens teori stödjer inte användningen av kriterierna marknadsstorlek, hur väl innovationen passar företaget och att verifiera innovationen med en kund på grund av osäkerhet kring framväxande marknader och nya teknologier.

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Osorio, Urzúa Carlos A. (Carlos Alberto) 1968. "Architectural innovation, functional emergence diversification in engineering systems." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38530.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology, Management, and Policy Program, 2007.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 255-265).
The evolution of the architecture of long-lived complex socio-technical systems have important consequences and can happen in unexpected ways. This dissertation explores this question through the study of the architectural evolution of Municipal Electric Utilities (MEUs) and their diversification into broadband services in the United States. Our research seeks answers to questions of process (why and how did this happen?), impact (what was the economic effect of this evolution?), theory (what is the phenomenon that explains this evolution?) and method (how can we study such changes?). The number of MEUs offering broadband services increased by more than 200% between 2000 and 2005, which made MEUs one of the most important providers of fiber-based broadband services in the nation. As a result, the entry of MEUs into broadband became a heavily debated policy issue at local, state, and national levels, and many laws were proposed for restricting or broadening their role in broadband. Our research provides the first evidence about the economic impact of this phenomenon for better-informed policy making. The analysis of the architectural evolution of MEUs required appropriate methods.
(cont.) We integrated the Representation Stage of the Complex Large Interconnected Open Socio-Technical (CLIOS) Process and Object Process Methodology (OPM) under a framework for system architecture analysis, and developed the CLIOS-OPM Integrated Representation Method (COIReM). COIReM' objective is to study the architectural evolution of socio-technical systems. We applied it to the evolution of MEUs using data from case study research, documentation, field research and interviews. We find that the evolution of MEUs and their entry into broadband services resulted from a process we define as Functional Emergence (FE): the process by which a new externally delivered function emerges triggered by the combined effect of technical and contextual changes affecting internal functions of a complex socio-technical system. The diversification of MEUs into broadband shows that small technological changes related to the internal functions of the system in the presence of regulatory and organizational adaptation, can stimulate the emergence of new externally delivered functions. Especially in organizations with high absorptive capacity and dynamic capabilities, these new functions can become sources of strategic diversification. The inability to understand these dynamics can create dramatic competitive disadvantages.
(cont.) For example, in this case technical changes created significant resources that, while not being perceived as valuable by the system itself, were greatly valued and demanded by an active local customer base. The impact of this evolution was studied quantitatively using Matched Sample Estimators. Results showed that: (i) the adoption of IP-enabled services had a positive impact on the internal efficiency of MEUs, (ii) there is no evidence to support the contention advanced in some policy discussions that MEUs are subsidizing their broadband business with funds from their electric power operations, and (iii) MEUbased broadband is associated with higher growth rates in the number of local business establishments, even after adjusting for the presence of private broadband providers. These qualitative and quantitative results have important implications for policy making. We argue that the entry of MEU into broadband owes more to their nature as an electric utility than as a municipal agency. We suggest that, as result of the economies of scope between electric power and broadband services, MEUs represent a case of sustainable broadband facilities-based providers and that, given the effects in internal efficiency and local economic development, they should be exempted from state legislation preventing local governments from offering telecommunication services.
(cont.) This research makes four main contributions. First, it uncovers a new behavior of complex technological systems: small technological and contextual changes affecting internal components and functions can produce the emergence of new external functions. Second, we propose a new framework to study the architectural evolution of socio-technical systems. Third, it provided evidence that, in the case of MEUs, this behavior is observable and measurable. Finally, the thesis provides a framework with which to formulate intervening policy measures.
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Song, Rui. "Developing radical innovation in telecommunications : an R&D management perspective." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2015. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29179/.

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Radical innovation has been identified as one of the central topics of innovation management, being relevant to the development process, the categories, and the R&D department’s responsibilities for development. Based on the above three individual research conversations, this research aimed to determine, when the R&D department of a large telecommunications operator engaged in radical innovation, which capabilities they used and how the use of these capabilities was affected by different contextual factors at each stage of the radical innovation development cycle. By comparing the aim of the current research with other researchers’ findings on relevant topics, three gaps in the research were identified, and two research questions were raised, as below: • RQ1: What capabilities do the R&D department of an STO use for each separate activity during its radical innovation development process? • RQ2: Within the radical innovation development process of an STO, which contextual factors explain the differential uses of the R&D department’s capabilities? Following the above research questions and based on the philosophical views of interpretivism and social constructivism, this PhD study uses a qualitative research strategy and a case study research approach for guiding the research design. Based on the data collected from 29 interviews plus a three-month, full-time participant observation, four case studies were conducted, which are the telematics service within China Mobile, the Xi-He system within China Telecom, and 21CN and BT Fusion within British Telecom (BT). By comparing the four cases, the R&D departments’ uses of capabilities in each separate activity of its radical innovation development cycle were identified, and the reasons for the different uses of these capabilities were described in relation to six contextual factors derived from the literature. Based on the four case studies and the data analysis, from the perspective of the R&D department eight theoretical propositions were put forward for an STO to develop its radical innovation. The propositions concerned the capabilities involved at each stage of the R&D department’s radical innovation development cycle, as well as the contextual factors that played the most significant roles in affecting these capabilities at all of the radical innovation development stages. In addition to the eight theoretical propositions, practically, five guidelines were also proposed in this study, which contributes to the understanding of the R&D managers and strategy people of other Chinese and British STOs, in terms of the impacts that the contextual factor of cultural contexts would have on their radical innovation development activities.

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Nelson, Natalia (Natalia Natasha). "How companies achieve balance between technology enabled innovation and cyber-security." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104552.

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Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2016.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-120).
With increasing economic pressures and exponential growth in technological innovations, companies are increasingly relying on digital technologies to fulfill their innovation and value creation agendas. At the same time, based on the increasing levels of cyber-security breaches, it is clear that the trustworthiness of many established and new technologies is not yet well addressed or appreciated as a fundamental core value in the new digital economy. Consequently, companies are aggressively pursuing strategies to increase cybersecurity of their existing and new digital assets. Many ClOs are faced with having to deal with both of these priorities simultaneously and find them to be frequently conflicting, and creating tensions. This exploratory study first introduces a framework for evaluating these risk/reward trade-offs. Through a survey and a series of interviews, companies are positioned in different quadrants on a digital innovation and cyber-security maturity matrix. This positioning is then overlaid with the perceptual negative impact of cyber-security controls on the innovative projects. The thesis then analyzes the industry level, firm level, technology management and the technology maturity factors that affect this perception and these trade-offs. Ultimately the thesis provides a set of practical recommendations for any company to evaluate their own positioning on the innovation / cyber-security matrix, understand the underlying factors that affect that position and how to better manage these trade-offs.
by Natalia (Natasha) Nelson.
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Flores, Annabel 1977. "Implementing a new organization to manage manufacturing technology innovation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34729.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; and, (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-137).
The purpose of this research is to provide an academic, external perspective to facilitate the implementation and development of a new internal organization for Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS) with a focus on strategy and the organization. The new organization, named the Advanced Manufacturing Development Center (AMDC), is chartered to work concurrently with the design community to develop state-of-the-art manufacturing technology to compliment the next generation engineering designs. This thesis documents the efforts of a company implementing change detailing the specific challenges they faced. The principle lessons learned during the course of this project are (1) that effectively introducing change is very difficult and depends largely on thorough planning and understanding the culture and (2) that manufacturing innovation and development is a critical step to improving the manufacturing capabilities and providing a competitive advantage to a company. The defense industry is undergoing a lean transformation that focuses on "Better, Faster, Cheaper" defense systems demanding better products within a faster development timeframe at cheaper development and production costs. Defense companies have an external push to improve their manufacturing capabilities. In the context of the defense industry, adapting to change is a slow process given the industry's clockspeed and historical development. Making the challenge of effective implementation even more difficult is the lack of urgency at RMS's due to their success in the marketplace. Benchmarking and organizational studies specific to the industry and the company were conducted to identify best practices to provide a basis for the development of the AMDC. This project uses academic research to identify existing theories on manufacturing innovation and organizational change to overcome the socialization and cultural issues that ensued from implementing change and to improve the potential sustainability and impact of the AMDC. An implementation roadmap and operational model were generated that combined the best practices found in industry and academic theories that would help meet the objectives of the AMDC.
by Annabel Flores.
M.B.A.
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Willey, Richard Ellert 1966. "Many is beautiful : commoditization as a source of disruptive innovation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/16990.

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Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 44-45).
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
The expression "disruptive technology" is now firmly embedded in the modern business lexicon. The mental model summarized by this concise phrase has great explanatory power for ex-post analysis of many revolutionary changes in business. Unfortunately, this paradigm can rarely be applied prescriptively. The classic formulation of a "disruptive technology" sheds little light on potential sources of innovation. This thesis seeks to extend this analysis by suggesting that many important disruptive technologies arise from commodities. The sudden availability of a high performance factor input at a low price often enables innovation in adjacent market segments. The thesis suggests main five reasons that commodities spur innovation: ** The emergence of a commodity collapses competition to the single dimension of price. Sudden changes in factor prices create new opportunities for supply driven innovation. Low prices enable innovators to substitute quantity for quality. ** The price / performance curve of a commodity creates an attractor that promotes demand aggregation. ** Commodities emerge after the establishment of a dominant design. Commodities have defined and stable interfaces. Well developed tool sets and experienced developer communities are available to work with commodities, decreasing the price of experimentation. ** Distributed architectures based on large number of simple, redundant components offer more predictable performance. Systems based on a small number of high performance components will have a higher standard deviation for uptime than high granularity systems based on large numbers of low power components. ** Distributed architectures are much more flexible than low granularity systems. Large integrated facilities often provide cost advantages when operating at the Minimum Efficient Scale of production. However, distributed architectures that can efficiently change production levels over time may be a superior solution based on the ability to adapt to changing market demand patterns. The evolution of third generation bus architectures in personal computers provides a comprehensive example of commodity based disruption, incorporating all five forces.
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Akhlaghpour, Saeed. "Three essays on institutional and discursive drivers of information technology innovation diffusion." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=121273.

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This dissertation features three essays that constitute an integrative and multi-perspective investigation of organizational IT innovation diffusion. My proposed research builds upon diverse bodies of literature in IS, organization theory, and social movement, for proposing novel IT innovation models and theories. In particular, the studies in this dissertation take into account non-relational mechanisms of diffusion, i.e., theorization and framing, as well as normative and symbolic drivers of IT adoption decision. The three essays are situated as follows: The first essay examines the IT diffusion phenomenon from the adopters' point of view. It seeks to conciliate a number of seemingly paradoxical arguments applicable to explaining the diffusion of IT management techniques. Taking the specific case of the Capability Maturity Model diffusion into account, the paper applies a multi-perspective approach to examining the diffusion process. This research contributes to the IS field by (a) illustrating how several different theoretical perspectives (i.e., the efficient choice, forced-selection, fashion, and fad) can be used to explain the diffusion of an IT innovation, (b) identifying the specific limitations of each perspective, and (c) demonstrating how these competing perspectives can be consolidated and yield a holistic understanding of the IT innovation diffusion trajectory.The second essay is a theory-generative research synthesis. Through a review and synthesis of literature in IS and reference disciplines, a typological theory of IT innovation adoption is proposed. The theory identifies and thoroughly explains four ideal types (holistic configurations) of IT adoption, namely, IT adoption for efficiency increment, IT adoption for organizational transformation, IT adoption for compliance, and IT adoption for prestige. This theory aims at resolving a number of inconsistencies found in extant literature. It also sheds light on distinctive characteristics of IT innovation, and adds to its conceptual clarity. The third essay investigates the processes behind the social construction and diffusion of popular IT innovation waves (aka, IT fashions), and proposes a theory of IT fashion entrepreneurship. This essay is based on the argument that for a successful diffusion of an IT innovation, it has to be accompanied by a powerful rhetorical component. The role of this component is to inspire and provide legitimacy for the adoption decisions – despite all uncertainties regarding the actual realized benefits. Using an analysis of discourse associated with the rise of Enterprise 2.0 as a popular IT innovation concept, this essay generates a theory on how these rhetorical components are constructed by IT fashion entrepreneurs. Overall, the studies in this dissertation seek to go beyond the current dominant paradigm in IT diffusion stream of research, by focusing on under-explored mechanisms of IT innovation diffusion. The findings of the studies provide theoretical and pragmatic contributions for the IS field, as well as practical contributions for managers and IT vendors.
Cette thèse présente trois essais qui constituent une étude intégrative, multi-perspective et multi-méthode sur la diffusion des innovations organisationnelles en technologies de l'information (TI). Mon projet de recherche s'appuie sur diverses théories des organisations et des mouvements sociaux afin de proposer de nouveaux modèles d'innovation en TI et de suggérer certains développements théoriques. Plus particulièrement, les études qui forment cette thèse tiennent compte des mécanismes non-relationnels de diffusion, c.-à-d. théorisation et de framing, ainsi que des tenants normatifs et symboliques d'adoption de décision en TI. Les trois essais sont présentés comme suit:Le premier essai examine le phénomène de diffusion des TIs du point de vue des adoptants. Il cherche à concilier un certain nombre d'arguments en apparence paradoxaux qui visent à expliquer la diffusion des techniques de gestion des TI. En prenant le cas spécifique de la diffusion du « Capability Maturity Model », cette étude adopte une approche multi-perspective pour examiner le processus de diffusion. Cette recherche contribue au domaine des TI en (a) illustrant la façon dont plusieurs perspectives théoriques différentes (c.à.d, le choix efficace, la sélection forcée, la mode, et le fad) peuvent être utilisés pour expliquer la diffusion d'une innovation IT, (b) identifiant les limitations spécifiques de chaque point de vue, et (c) démontrant comment chacun de ces points de vue divergents peuvent être consolidés afin de donner une compréhension plus holistique de la diffusion de l'innovation informatique.Le deuxième essai propose une synthèse de la recherche sur l'innovation en TI., visant à proposer de nouveaux apports théoriques. Grâce à un examen et une synthèse de la littérature en TI et disciplines de référence, une théorie typologique de l'adoption de l'innovation IT est proposée. La théorie identifie et explique en détail les quatre types idéaux (configurations globales) de l'adoption des TI, particulièrement en ce qui a trait à l'adoption des TI pour l'augmentation de l'efficacité, la transformation organisationnelle, la conformité et le prestige. Le cadre théorique proposé vise à résoudre un certain nombre d'incohérences trouvées dans la littérature existante. Il met également en lumière des caractéristiques distinctives de l'innovation en TI, en ajoutant à sa clarté conceptuelle.Le troisième essai présente une étude des processus de la construction sociale et la diffusion d'innovations populairess de TI (IT fashion ) et propose une théorie de l'entrepreneuriat dans ce domaine. Cet essai se base sur l'argument selon lequel une bonne diffusion de l'innovation en TI doit être accompagnée d'une rhétorique puissante. Le rôle de cette rhétorique est d'inspirer et de donner une légitimité aux décisions d'adoption - malgré toutes les incertitudes concernant les bénéfices réels réalisés. En utilisant une analyse du discours sur un concept d'innovation TI populaire, à savoir la diffusion de Entreprise 2.0, cet essai génère une théorie sur la manière dont ces éléments rhétoriques sont construits et utiisés par des entrepreneurs en « IT fashion ».Globalement, les études de cette thèse visent à dépasser le paradigme dominant actuel dans le domaine de la recherche sur la diffusion des TI en mettant l'accent sur des aspects et mécanismes sous-explorés dans la recherche existante. Les conclusions de ces études fournissent des contributions théoriques et pragmatiques pour la recherche en TI, ainsi que des contributions pratiques pour les gestionnaires, les fournisseurs et les consultants en TI.

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Malik, Khaleel Ur-Rehman. "Intra-firm technology management and the innovation process in a multinational company." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488399.

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As businesses become more global, this creates particular problems of technology management and strategy formation, which are central to the process of wealth creation and the performance of UK companies. The main objective of this thesis is to investigate the process of intra-firm technology management, for companies that have multiple plants and R&D facilities in different countries, and serve different national markets. This objective is pursued by studying the management of intra-firm technology transfer practices and the innovation process within, a multinational firm environment. Five case studies are examined at BICC Cables Ltd. (UK), who had acquired a number of companies in Europe and have faced the problem of integrating their activities into a coherent technology strategy. The issue of R&D decentralisation is also explored in the context of the BICC technology organisational structure. A major outcome of this thesis is the conceptualisation of the technology transfer process in a `broadcasting model' that acts as a tool to help formulate issues, which are relevant to the `capabilities' of the transmitting and receiving organisations in a firm. The findings from this research study show that organisations are composed of different language communities and sometimes this language difference may arise from highly specific or localised technological knowledge held by individuals. Hence `people transfer' alone cannot overcome barriers to technology transfer, people need to engage with the meanings of ideas and their implications if a MNC is to develop globally. Also this study emphasises that the process of technology transfer cannot be represented as a single routine, but it is a bundle of routines.

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Möhring, Monika Maria. "Innovation in a high technology B2B context : exploring networks, processes and management." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2013. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18979.

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In the past few decades, scholars of the Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Group have been scrutinising inter-organisational network phenomena. Acknowledging a subjectively held world view of persons, groups and organisations, particular focus has been laid on the perceived relevance and choice of relational enactment of particular ties in these networks for creating a particular value. The IMP tradition has been scrutinising such relational collaborations' pivotal constituents of actors, resources, and activities and empirically covered phenomena of space and time therein. This thesis is about conducting further basic descriptive research (Möller and Svahn, 2003) in longitudinal case studies (Ford and Mouzas, 2010). With emphasis on R&D intensive customer-centric innovation, this project will further explore the roles of actors, their rationales for networking, and their subjectively perceived value systems (Ford, 2011). This work draws on interpretivism and s ocial constructionism, applying pragmatist meta-cycles of scrutiny. The research process is placed within the German R&D department of a a multinational high-technology corporation's. It emphasises cross-case longitudinal observation of innovation relationships in specific B2B networks. The aim is to exemplarily examine these networks' sense-making, networking activities and value systems by interacting with the networks' project members. The proceedings involve the translation of research constituents into mathematical formulae and instrumental scorecards. The exchange of products, services, and goodwill and further qualities of collaboration are differentiated and put forth for subsequent refinement of observation. Valuein- exchange and value-in-use are found interrelated. A particular quality of the intrinsic network value as postulated by Ford (2011) is substantiated and expressed in this dissertation's framework of formulae. Interestingly, the findings point to the need to further examine the role and gradual obsolescence of the juridical contract. Moreover, the concept of the "actor" is found to be a potentially ambiguous term to be refined in future research.

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Tao, Lan. "Developing a framework for depicting the radical innovation process in established firms." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609332.

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Yuen, Kevin Ka-Chun. "New sustainable models of open innovation to accelerate technology development in cellular agriculture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113537.

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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2017.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-103).
Cellular agriculture is an emerging field to develop in-vitro agricultural products. Despite overwhelming public attention towards the field's trajectory, there are significant research hurdles to overcome in order to validate scalable applications. These challenges, referring to the translational development of cell lines, serum-free media, cell-scaffolds, and bioreactor designs with regulatory and market assessment efforts, require new models for industry collaboration. The Open-Innovation Network Map was used to prioritize key collaboration networks to address the translational challenges of cellular agriculture, and three in-depth case studies from open-source models, big-science collaborations, and pre-competitive consortia were evaluated. Nine best practices to support open innovation across translational development were surfaced: Open-Source Models I OpenCompute Foundation, a community for open-source data center hardware designs, highlights the focus on: (1) the modularization of biological parts, equipment and protocols to encourage reproducibility, (2) the scalability of proof-of-concepts through industry participation, and (3) the self-assembly of industry clusters to initiate standardization. Big-Science Collaborations I The Human Genome Project, a large-scale collaboration to complete the sequencing of the human genome, exhibits attributes of successful research-intensive organizations, such as: (4) the centralization of leadership in distributed networks, and (5) policies to increase data-sharing frequency. Pre-competitive Consortia I SEMATECH, a semi-conductor manufacturing consortium established to address bottlenecks in the product development process, reveals that: (6) a crisis is critical for industry cohesion, (7) investment in innovation hubs increases translatability across stakeholders, (8) 'honest brokers' should be created to promote trust, and (9) feedback loops with end-users are critical to test market applications for new scientific advancements. The building of cellular agriculture's communities, channels, and technologies with appropriate open innovation models can enable stakeholders to collaborate and maintain a competitive edge. The conclusions of the thesis represent a convergence point among industry, academia and policy to discuss how to best shape and execute open innovation efforts in the future.
by Kevin Ka-Chun Yuen.
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Reichert-Facilides, Christopher 1964. "Organizing for innovation : an examination of collaborative teams in industrial design." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17886.

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Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2004.
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Why are some industrial design firms more successful than others in consistently producing high quality products and services? Do they hire more talented people, or are they organized so as to maximize the potential of their teams? I begin this thesis with an examination of literature on teamwork, the dynamics of idea propagation, and the product development process itself. This is meant to extract some insights into successful teams across a broad spectrum of activities and what they did to generate a creative output. These examples include references to historically significant teams such as Thomas Edison's Lab and the Manhattan Project. By using such extreme examples, I am seeking similarities in more common projects and organizations. I use a workgroup framework to analyze the factors involved, including the context, the people on the teams, their task requirements and formal organization, group cultures that emerge, as well as the outcomes that define the success, or otherwise of a project. I interviewed a number of professionals in the industry. These include professionals from IDEO, Design Continuum, Modo, and sevenO2design, as well as professors at the MIT School of Engineering, Media Lab, Sloan School, and Olin College of Engineering. The main focus is in analyzing the collaborative processes and methods of these sample organizations. My objective is to identify their methodology for organizing the creative process and how they maintain a high standard across projects, industries and over time.
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Ostrowski, Susan M. (Susan Marie). "Innovation in medical devices : a case study of the coronary stent." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8917.

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Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2001.
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This thesis presents a case study of introduction of the coronary stent into the percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) industry. The industry evolution is analyzed within the industrial life cycle framework developed by Utterback, Tushman and others. The coronary stent was first introduced in 1994, and has passed through all of the industry cycle stages: from a technology disruption stage to an incremental improvement. The interactions of the organization with the exterior environment and the technical development expertise, in combination, prove to be determining elements in an the stent manufacturer's likelihood for success. Relationships with the clinical personnel and practitioner are needed for design validation ( data for regulatory filings), design feedback, clinical acceptance of their products and to promote awareness of their products. Relations with clinical institutions and purchasing groups form distribution channels. This case study of the coronary stent industry provides an additional data point to compare actual industry practice against theory.
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Ubiebor, Merhedia Ricardo. "Modernisation and innovation management : developing a digital society : an investigation into public sector modernisation and innovation management in its introduction of wireless technology." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5366.

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This thesis presents an exploratory study into the development of digital societies and it examines public sector modernization and innovation from a technology management perspective. The study presents reasons why most city-wide or council-wide development of wireless broadband access networks currently end in failure or are unsustainable. It also suggests its links with wider problems of innovation management and the commercial failure of otherwise technically competent solutions It explores the modernisation of society, government, the underlying theories that influence it as well as the innovations triggered by its wake. The exercise reveals a myriad of innovations; firstly in the modernisation of the infrastructure of government and secondly in the development of societal infrastructure in the form of broadband networks.

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Ubiebor, Merhedia R. "Modernisation and Innovation Management: Developing a Digital Society. An investigation into public sector modernisation and innovation management in its introduction of wireless technology." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5366.

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This thesis presents an exploratory study into the development of digital societies and it examines public sector modernization and innovation from a technology management perspective. The study presents reasons why most city-wide or council-wide development of wireless broadband access networks currently end in failure or are unsustainable. It also suggests its links with wider problems of innovation management and the commercial failure of otherwise technically competent solutions It explores the modernisation of society, government, the underlying theories that influence it as well as the innovations triggered by its wake. The exercise reveals a myriad of innovations; firstly in the modernisation of the infrastructure of government and secondly in the development of societal infrastructure in the form of broadband networks.

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Meneses, Alvarez Fernando. "Engineering a culture that promotes innovation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117938.

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Thesis: S.M. in Management of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2018.
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In today's world, innovation has become a well-worn, sometimes over-used buzzword. Much of today's innovation is mainly linked with new technologies. Many companies talk about innovation using new metrics like "innovation premium," and they would like to be on the "Top 100 Most Innovative" list published by Forbes every year. This thesis seeks to answer the following questions: Do the CEOs of the most innovative companies create a unique environment within their organizations? Do they create an internal culture that supports employees who have ideas for innovative products or services? What can a CEO do to influence the company's shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices which in turn promote innovation? What are the main elements that influence internal culture and make it more innovative? To answer these questions, I reviewed the research literature by scholars and researchers on innovation. I also reviewed literature about the kind of organizational culture that promotes innovation. In addition, I interviewed nine leaders from several companies generally regarded as being innovative to inquire how they fostered an innovative environment. From this study, I identified three main elements that I think are key to creating a culture that promotes innovation. After determining the critical elements necessary for innovation, I interviewed 17 individuals from P-Automotive (a pseudonym). I asked them to discuss how their internal innovation culture relates to the three main elements. Based on what I learned from the research literature, the innovative leader interviews, and the case study of P-Automotive, I provide several general recommendations and several specific recommendations (for P-Automotive) for fostering an innovative organizational culture.
by Fernando Meneses Alvarez.
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Neshati, Ramin. "Participation in Technology Standards Development: A Decision Model for the Information and Communications Technology Industry." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1850.

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There is a dearth of decision-support models or frameworks to aid managers in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry in uniformly assessing the key factors in the decision to standardize innovative technologies. Making the proper decision is consequential and potentially fraught with risks for the firm such as competitive exposure, high expenditures with inadequate returns, restrictive inbound or outbound patent licensing obligations, and related complications. This study presents a framework to guide managers in the ICT industry in assessing the factors that inform the decision to participate in the development of technology standards. Using multi-criteria decision analysis and judgment data from panels of experts, a robust model is developed that comprehends the essential criteria and outcomes within the context of computer interconnect technologies. The resultant, generalizable model is validated against the case of the extant Universal Serial Bus (USB) interconnect standard and found to be congruent with the assessment of the experts. Scholarship on technology standards development is rich and multifaceted--spanning numerous streams of inquiry. This research contextualizes technology standardization within the economic, strategic, organizational, and legal perspectives. The resultant model demonstrates that strategic planning is regarded by the experts as the principal driver in the decision to participate in a technology standardization effort. Furthermore, the primacy of commitment and leadership within the standards-setting organization is unambiguously established through rigorous quantitative analysis. The proposed model verifies that the firm's desire to align its product roadmap to the emerging standard is the chief criterion in the decision to contribute to the standards development effort. Other criteria of high interest include the leveraging of network externalities to glean disruptive trends within the ecosystem, the exploration of opportunities to expand the total available market for the firm, and the availability and terms of IP licenses. Sensitivity analysis affirms the overall predictive strength and robustness of the model and its widespread applicability. Future research on model expansion and application to other technologies, as well as the development of uniform patent valuation methods will further enrich the knowledge base.

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McDougall, Heather S. "Starting the journey towards manufacturing excellence : MX Start : innovation report." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/53859/.

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Manufacturing matters. It matters because of the economic contribution it provides in terms of wealth generation, employment and exports. The manufacturing industry in the United Kingdom can be strengthened. The opportunity for improvement includes closing the productivity gap between other countries, encouraging innovation and developing the skills of the workforce, in order to be globally competitive, drive growth and to help reduce the trade deficit. Critical to exploiting these opportunities, and to the success of the industry, is the adoption of best practice. Existing support for manufacturing improvement can be costly, difficult to access or dependent on input from external experts. This support therefore is not readily accessible to every manufacturing company. There are also a number of quality and performance awards available, however these are predominantly focused on recognising success rather than on how this success can be attained. This research fulfils the gap by providing widely accessible support for manufacturing companies that is focused on helping them to improve. The support provided helps companies to identify and adopt relevant best practices. This research work adapted a product evaluation framework to develop MX Start, a process that supports manufacturing companies to start their improvement journey towards manufacturing excellence. MX Start was developed following a review of the definition of Manufacturing Excellence, a needs assessment of the opportunity, analysis of best practice dissemination strategies, comparative analysis of existing tools and a review of effective self assessment and feedback principles. MX Start provides an easy to use, free of charge, web based system that facilitates manufacturing companies to start their excellence journey. It enables manufacturers to benchmark themselves against best practice in order to gain a greater understanding of what excellence entails, and to enable improvement areas to be identified. This is then supported with a report that helps companies to prioritise the improvement opportunities and provides feedback to then help them make these improvements. The combination of the free of charge, widely accessible, self-directed system that is solely concerned with supporting and encouraging companies to improve, is the basis of the innovation of this work. MX Start has demonstrated impact to the manufacturing industry through a pilot and on-going work with the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS). As part of the pilot, over two hundred companies used the process to conduct diagnostic activities to define areas for improvement, and identify where and how they could implement best practices. As a result, MAS in the West Midlands have adopted the tool and supported further developments of this research. This has increased the opportunity for MX Start to help companies progress on their excellence journey and therefore, help support the manufacturing industry to improve. An evaluation of MX Start by companies and manufacturing experts, found that the tool was easy to understand and use, and that it helped companies to identify, and be motivated, to make improvements. The web based system lends itself to further development. In addition to the assessment and report elements of MX Start, the website contains a resource library. The resources contain more information and guidance. The opportunity for the future is to expand this library and build a comprehensive database of support. This would increase the ability of MX Start to support manufacturers to exploit the improvement opportunities to strengthen the competitiveness of the manufacturing industry.

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Van, der Walt Johanna Maria. "Technology for knowledge innovation : a realistic pluralist scientific problem solving capability." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01232006-155408.

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Bhatti, Yasser Ahmad. "Frugal innovation : social entrepreneurs' perceptions of innovation under institutional voids, resource scarcity and affordability constraints." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:17121614-7918-4e56-bccc-2806c9ecbfb3.

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Despite some understanding within the development literature about innovation in extreme contexts marked by challenges of institutional voids and resource scarcity, there exists little knowledge within organization theory and strategic management. To extend this understanding, I connect innovation in extreme contexts with research on social and purposeful innovation. But while the literature attributes social innovation to social entrepreneurs, we know little about how social entrepreneurs themselves view innovation. Questions that arise: How do social entrepreneurs conceptualize innovation broadly and specifically under extreme contexts marked by institutional voids and resource scarcity? I explore these questions using qualitative, descriptive and analytical methods by studying two communities of globally networked and formally recognized social entrepreneurs. Analysis is at meso level of innovation and value chains but observations are at micro level through document analysis, interviews, and observations. I reveal perceptions by social entrepreneurs on conceptual drivers, determinants and key features of innovation. The findings help organizational theorists to frame models of innovation to understand innovation among social entrepreneurs broadly and in extreme contexts. In contrast to social innovation presented in current literature, I find innovation among social entrepreneurs is viewed as a disparate range of understandings that stem from varied motivations, means and outcomes related to social concerns as well as user, efficiency, and challenge concerns. I further find that social entrepreneurs turn to a mix of technology, social, and institutional innovations to deal with, make use of, or overcome constraints. The varied concerns and approaches to innovation can be condensed using the construct of 'frugal innovation' which helps provide some cohesion to the seemingly disparate notions of innovation among social entrepreneurs. I build propositions from the findings and suggest models of innovation that help develop a theory of frugal innovation with implications and lessons relevant for theory, practice, policy and future research.

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Tsekouras, George. "Integration, organisation and management : investigating capability building." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263212.

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Ishii, Katsuki. "Managing technological innovation and sustaining competitive advantage in the digital imaging industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33552.

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Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2005.
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The emergence and adoption of a disruptive technology that replaces an existing industry platform not only has enormous implications to incumbent firms, but also creates business opportunities that is enabled by the newly adopted technology. Firms competing in such an evolving and dynamic industry face great management challenges in its product's technological innovation process. Furthermore, defining strategies to sustain its competitive advantage through the market evolution by transitioning to the new platform is a non-trivial management task. This thesis focuses on the digital imaging industry that consists of input/output/storage devices as well as related software and services. This thesis will -- describe the evolution, transition, and competitive/collaborative environment of the consumer photography industry, both analog and digital, by way of value chain analysis, -- identify current trends that is shaping the digital imaging industry and the challenges it faces, -- explore key factors that influence the expansion of digital imaging, focusing on two platform technologies, specifically the image data format and removable memory card format, -- discuss the strategic implications for a new format to be introduced in a fast growing industry and its diffusion strategies, and -- establish a basis to allow firms to address the industry challenges in order to sustain its competitive advantage.
by Katsuki Ishii.
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Bonsen, Joost Paul. "The Innovation Institute : from creative inquiry through real-world impact at MIT." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37141.

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Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2006.
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This document is an exploration into the past, present, and emerging future of MIT from the perspective of a participant-in and observer-of Institute life and learning, and seeks to better understand how creative inquiry at the Institute leads to real-world impact. We explore the Institute's history, mission, and creative ethos. We survey MIT's links to industry, highlight the inner-connections between the triad of research, education and extracurriculars, and explore the rich entrepreneurial ecosystem, how the Institute formally and informally educates and inspires new generations of founders, builders, and leaders. We conclude by observing how distributed initiative, inquiry, and leadership enable organizational reinvention and survey a few of MIT's emergent future frontiers.
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Cho, Yonghee. "Exploring Technology Forecasting and its Implications for Strategic Technology Planning." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4224.

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As the importance of R&D has been growing in economic growth, the accountability and effectiveness of R&D programs are highly emphasized. Especially, in times of economic downturn, the evaluation of performance in a firm is needed to justify R&D investment. In response, various attempts have been made to improve success rates of R&D projects, gain competitive advantage, and achieve a firm's growth in profitability. In particular, in industries where technological innovation is significant, strategic technology planning and R&D capabilities may be the lead ones in defining the dynamic capabilities of a firm. In addition, technology forecasting (TF) in technology planning is a crucial step to follow before developing technologies/products/processes in need. In this regard, researchers have an abiding interest in enhancing methods to forecast emerging technology, while practitioners have a considerable interest in selecting appropriate tools to apply in their field for better forecasting results. Nevertheless, so far it is not well documented how appropriately the current research responds to this need. Thus, a thorough review on TF techniques is conducted to help researchers and practitioners capture methodologies in a tangible way and identify the current trends in the TF arena. Moreover, there is still a lack of clear guidance as to where and how particular TF methods are useful in strategic planning based on technology characteristics as well as the nature of industry. The purpose of this study is to enrich the stream of research on TF activities in a firm for practitioners and researchers, a unique context where TF could lead to technological innovation. This research offers a classification of the approaches, and presents technological, industrial, methodological, and organizational aspects of TF methods that are inherent in TF activities. Furthermore, this study provides empirical evidences to support organizational and managerial implications regarding TF activities associated with technology planning in a firm. Research findings in regimes of technological change suggest insights on technological, organizational, and managerial processes within the firm. On the other hand, research on the effects on business performance of "best practices" of strategic planning, which enable firms to articulate their plans to develop, acquire, and deploy resources for accomplishing firms' financial growth, has so far ignored the roles of strategic technology planning associated with TF. In this regard, this study explores a set of indicators, discusses, and presents the findings from the literature in such a way that they become useful for researchers or managers who are in charge of measuring the R&D performance and business performance from innovation activity. Next, this research tested the hypothetical framework proposed not only to provide a current snapshot of how firms across industries implement best practices in strategic technology planning, but also to improve the effectiveness of strategic planning. The results present the positive linkages between TF, technology planning, and superior business performance. The findings in this research help policy makers, universities, research institutes/national labs, and companies to enhance their decision making process on technology development.

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Boavida, Nuno F. F. G. [Verfasser]. "The role of indicators in decisions of technology innovation / Nuno F. F. G. Boavida." Karlsruhe : KIT Scientific Publishing, 2017. http://www.ksp.kit.edu.

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Stone, Leah. "Digitization, Innovation, and Participation| Digital Conviviality of the Google Cultural Institute." Thesis, Colorado State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10824526.

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The Frightful Five—Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Alphabet, the parent company of Google—shape the way data are generated and distributed across digital space (Manjoo, 2017). Through their technologies and increase in scope and scale, these titans provide new ways for people to create, find, and share information online. And, with such control, they have continued as well as expanded their reign over information commerce, changing the way that people and technology interact. In this way, tech giants act as gatekeepers over data, as well as serve as all-mighty-creators over technologies that arguably act on humans.

To explain, debates over whether or not technologies are employing “computational agency” (Tufecki, 2015, p. 207) have developed. One of these disputes is commonly referred to as the Great Artificial Intelligence (AI) Debate, and is currently being publicly argued between two of the most prominent tech titans: Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, and Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook (Narkar, 2017). On one side of the AI argument, sits tech mogul Musk, who is crying for regulatory restrictions over AI and painting doomsday pictures of robots killing humans. Conversely, on the other side of the dispute, sits tech giant Zuckerberg, who claims AI will enhance society as it makes the world a better place.

This great AI debate underscores what Illich (1973) described as organizations that practice in convivial versus non-convivial ways. In other words, as tech titans are continuing to advance technology, it can be argued that they are operating in convivial ways as they enhance society through their participatory tools that work with humans to complete a task. Alternatively, it can be debated that technology organizations may be functioning in non-convivial ways as they manipulate society for the sake of their technologies. And, while these technologies may be participating with humans (convivial) to complete a task, they may actually be working for and/or acting on humans (non-convivial) to do an activity.

The purpose of this dissertation was to establish a unique approach to studying the conviviality of technology titans and how they organize digital space, a concept the researcher coined as digital conviviality. Digital conviviality is when a technology company operates in digital convivial ways such that it: (a) builds tools for digital communication; (b) has a value proposition that, while aimed at generating a profit, is also focused on using its technology to enhance society, instead of manipulating society for the sake of its technologies; and (c) designs technological tools that work with humans, instead of tools that work for humans or tools that act on humans, to accomplish a task. To further understand this conception of digital conviviality, an investigation was piloted into a tech titan that arguably claims to promote digital conviviality at its core: Google.

Using Illich’s (1973) notion of conviviality as a guide, an exploration into Google’s approach to convivial technologies was conducted. This study sought to understand Google’s ability to shape information in the arts and culture space. Through its Google Cultural Institute (GCI) and Google Arts & Culture (GAC) initiatives, Google focused on “democratizing access to the world’s culture” (Google CI Chromecast, 2014, 00:44). In this way, the study aimed to answer the overarching question: in what ways is the GCI considered a digital convivial company, and conversely, in what ways is it not? Based on this, an explication of the concept of digital conviviality and a framework for studying such things were developed.

Drawing from several disciplines, methodologies, and theoretical frameworks (e.g., science and technology, posthumanism, actor-network theory, design science in information systems, business models, digital methods, and convivial studies), a body of theory was gathered together, synthesized, and enhanced. Next, the collected information was used to assemble and create a new methodological strategy called digital convivial tracking with a design science (DS) approach and actor-network theory (ANT) mindset. Digital convivial tracking employs traditional qualitative methods, as well as innovative digital methods, to trace important objects throughout a digital ecosystem. Because the GCI digitizes the world’s arts and culture, the iconic The Starry Night painting by Vincent van Gogh (1889d) was selected as the object to track across the institute’s ecosystem. This process helped identify the GCI’s complex and entangled business model, as well as its technological innovations. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest.)

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