Trust trigger and knowledge elicitor: The role of epistemic objects in coordinating the fragmentation and heterogeneity of knowledge in digital innovation networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 332-345
Author(s):  
Jiayuan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Networks ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Epistemic Objects

scholarly journals The Role of Extension and Advisory Services in Strengthening Farmers’ Innovation Networks to Adapt to Climate Extremes

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1941
Author(s):  
Md Kamruzzaman ◽  
Katherine Anne Daniell ◽  
Ataharul Chowdhury ◽  
Steven Crimp
Keyword(s):  
Information Access ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Climate Extremes ◽  
Rice Cultivation ◽  
Innovation Networks ◽  
Flash Flooding ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
Local Input ◽  
Local Weather

There is anecdotal evidence of the effectiveness of Extension and Advisory Service (EAS) agencies for strengthening innovation networks to adapt to extreme events that impact agricultural production and productivity. In Bangladesh, the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) is responsible for ensuring sustainable rice farming, which is damaged by flash flooding every year. This study investigates how EAS can strengthen farmers’ innovation networks by examining DAE’s efforts to adapt rice cultivation to flash flooding. Using surveys and interviews from farmers affiliated with DAE (DAE-farmers) and farmers independent of DAE (non-DAE farmers), the effectiveness of innovation networks was examined. One of the key findings of this paper is that DAE’s efforts to strengthen the innovation networks of farmers to adapt rice cultivation to flash flooding focused on the facilitation of the agronomic network development. The organization missed the opportunity to enable the harvesting networks’ efficacy. As the harvesting activities are highly exposed to flash flooding, the absence of adequate support from the DAE and timely updates of local weather and flash flooding information indicates that farmers are still at significant risk. This study also shows the value of including both formal (e.g., EAS agencies, research organizations) and informal actors (e.g., relatives, local input dealers) in the innovation network as a way of ensuring diversity of information access.

scholarly journals Technology transfer in innovation networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 184797901773574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanna Ferraro ◽  
Antonio Iovanella
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Network Science ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Innovation Networks ◽  
Science Approach

This article offers a network perspective on the collaborative effects of technology transfer, providing a research methodology based on the network science paradigm. We argue that such an approach is able to map and describe the set of entities acting in the technology transfer environment and their mutual relationships. We outline how the connections’ patterns shape the organization of the networks by showing the role of the members within the system. By means of a case study of a transnational initiative aiming to support the technology transfer within European countries, we analyse the application of the network science approach, giving evidence of its relative implications.

See What I Mean? Analogical Objects for Knowledge Mediation in Early Phases of Cross-Industry Innovation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilda Bø Lyng ◽  
Eric Christian Brun
Keyword(s):  
Nonverbal Communication ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Knowledge Domains ◽  
Collaborative Engagement ◽  
Epistemic Objects ◽  
Industry Sectors ◽  
Early Phases

The objective of this research is to explore the nature and role of analogies as objects for knowledge transfer in cross-industry collaborations. A case study of an organization seeking cross-industry innovation (CII) across two industry sectors was conducted, and the empirical data were analyzed qualitatively. We found that analogies used as knowledge mediation objects could be classified as explanatory or inventive, each expressed as linguistic or visual representations. Explanatory analogical objects help build prior knowledge of a foreign industry domain, thus easing later use of inventive analogical objects to identify how knowledge from one industry can be applied in another industry for innovation purposes. In these roles, the analogies serve as boundary objects. Both explanatory and inventive analogies can also serve as epistemic objects, motivating for further collaborative engagement. Visual representations of analogies help bridge the abstract with the concrete, thereby easing the process of creating analogies. They also enable nonverbal communication, thus helping bypass language barriers between knowledge domains. The reported research expands current research literature on knowledge mediation objects to the context of CII and provides added detailed understanding of the use of analogies in CII.

Digital innovation in context

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 696-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Nylén ◽  
Jonny Holmström
Keyword(s):  
Centralized Control ◽  
Church Of Sweden ◽  
Advertising Agency ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organizational Settings ◽  
Interpretive Case Study ◽  
Traditional Organization

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how digital innovation processes emerge and evolve in organizational settings, and how serendipitous and unbounded digital innovations affect organizations’ overall digital directions. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on an interpretive case study of the Church of Sweden, tracing in detail the design, deployment and governance of an interactive website for digital prayer, the Prayer Web (PW). Findings The findings show how the site came about in a serendipitous manner, created by an advertising agency as part of a marketing campaign. In turn, the unbounded nature of digital innovation was revealed as the wide and rapid adoption of the PW raised issues concerning the church’s overall digital direction linked to centralized control, as well as the nature and role of pastors, prayer and communities, as the site allowed people to post prayers and spread their messages (initially with no moderation). Originality/value The authors explore the serendipitous and unbounded ways in which digital innovation emerged and evolved in a traditional organization with a long legacy as an important societal institution. The paper contributes by generating rich insights on the role of the distinct aspects of digital technology in serendipitous and unbounded digital innovation. It particularly highlights how the editability and reprogrammability of digital artifacts triggered unexpected new behaviors and governance requirements in the organization under study. The authors encourage further research into the interrelationship between multiple unbounded and serendipitous digital innovations in an organization over time.

scholarly journals Innovation Networks: A Tool for Food-Culture Preservation and Sustainability in the Era of Globalization

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Baghdadi
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Innovation Networks ◽  
Innovation Network ◽  
Organizational Conditions ◽  
The Impact

The growing exposure to globalization, since 1990s, has initiated some significant alterations to the Lebanese economy, society, and culture. For the last two decades, it has been observed that international cuisines and eccentric menu items have been invading the local market and taking over ethnic and traditional cuisines, what threatens, if this trend continues, the identity of traditional cuisine and, consequently, the sustainability of local food culture. Departing from the case of Lebanon, this paper studies the impact of globalization on traditional cuisine and highlights the role of networks in sustaining local food culture. The findings of our empirical study revealed the necessity to modernize the traditional cuisine through a coordinated set of heterogeneous and professional actors who collectively take part in the process. The ability of these actors to innovate is found related to the organizational conditions of the networks to which they belong, and to the ability of these networks for innovation, what refers us to the concept of “innovation network” that we are proposing, through this study, as a solution to the dilemma of food - culture preservation and sustainability.

scholarly journals The role of the committee of the regions (Cor) to implement the Green Deal at the local level: an overview of Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-622
Author(s):  
Giovanni Messina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Ambitious Program ◽  
Committee Of The Regions ◽  
Climate Neutrality ◽  
Critical Overview

<abstract> <p>The contribution focuses on the role of cities in the implementation of the so-called Green Deal, the ambitious program proposed by the European Commission, in accordance with the objectives set by the Paris Agreements, to implement the use of clean energy resources, favour the circular economy, restore biodiversity and reduce pollution. The Plan, which for the seven-year period 2021-2027 has a budget of economic resources of 100 billion Euro, aims to involve in transcalar perspective all territorial and administrative levels of the Member States and thus contribute to the achievement, in 2050, of climate neutrality. The main objective of the work is then to concentrate, with descriptive intent, on the policies that, in Italy, are being activated at local level in coherence with the European perspectives. In particular, reference will be made to the initiatives proposed and sponsored in Italy by the Committee of the Regions of which a critical overview is proposed. A further reflection will be dedicated to how digital innovation is called to support the macro-policies of energy transition in the EU.</p> </abstract>

scholarly journals La innovación en el sector rural de México: el papel del gestor sistémico

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Roldán-Suárez ◽  
Roberto Rendón-Medel ◽  
Tania Carolina Camacho-Villa ◽  
Jorge Aguilar-Ávila ◽  
José Toledo
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Networks ◽  
Rural Sector ◽  
The Creation

We analyzed the role of broker of three cases of innovation promotion in the rural sector. Their profile, their position in the network and the context in which they operate were considered. It was found that the greater the tendency to allow the participation of local or exogenous actors to the territory, their influence decreases and the relationships in the network increase. This tendency is influenced by the broker’s profile and the context in which they operate. Identifying these elements is relevant for the sustainability of initiatives that promote the creation of innovation networks.

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