scholarly journals Regimes reloaded! A reappraisal of Schumpeterian patterns of innovation, 1977–2011

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Fontana ◽  
Arianna Martinelli ◽  
Alessandro Nuvolari
Keyword(s):  
Structural Properties ◽  
Technical Change ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Industrial Dynamics ◽  
Innovation Studies ◽  
Technological Regimes ◽  
Sectoral Differences ◽  
Innovation Patterns

AbstractOne of the most significant results of the empirical literature on innovation studies of the 1980s and 1990s was that innovation patterns were characterized by important inter-sectoral differences. This finding prompted a lively research agenda that: i) provided empirical characterizations of sectoral patterns of innovation by means of taxonomic exercises; ii) sought to interpret sectoral patterns of innovation as emerging properties of underlying selection and learning processes reflecting the structural properties of technical change at sectoral level (“technological regimes”). In this paper, we reconsider one of the landmark works on technological regimes (e.g., Breschi et al. 2000), reassess its findings, and perform a quasi-replication of their its exercise. Our conclusion is that the proposed distinction between Schumpeterian patterns of innovation (Mark I vs. Mark II) and their interpretation in terms of technological regimes has still the promise of yielding important insights concerning on the connection between inventive activities and industrial dynamics.

scholarly journals Total Factor Productivity of Major Crops in Southern Ethiopia: A Dis-Aggregated Analysis of the Growth Components

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3388
Author(s):  
Merihun Fikru Meja ◽  
Bamlaku Alamirew Alemu ◽  
Maru Shete
Keyword(s):  
Technical Change ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Crop Productivity ◽  
Parametric Estimation ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Southern Ethiopia ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Available Technology

(1) Background: Even though agriculture is the backbone of the Ethiopian economy, the improvements made regarding crop productivity appeared insufficient and had slow progress. Several studies suggest possible ways to identify the challenges in the productivity of the crop sub-sector. Nevertheless, there are gaps in the empirical literature in both knowledge and methods. The current study intends to identify the factors that affect growth in the productivity of teff, maize, barley, wheat, and sorghum crops. (2) Methods: Cobb-Douglass stochastic production function is estimated using a panel data set of the Living Standard Measurement Survey. To address the objectives of the study, a parametric estimation with a time-varying decay model with deterministic and stochastic components was adopted. (3) Results and Discussion: The effect of inputs on aggregate output was positive and significant at the 1% significance level, implying the presence of economies of scale. Variation in the inefficiency term explained 46.4% of the total variance in the composed error term. The average productivity of major crops was 6.19 per year. This study implied that technical change in the production of major crops increased by 22% with better use of available technology. (4) Conclusions and Policy Implication: The findings pinpoint that farmers should focus on technical change and intensification of improved agricultural inputs.

Conceptualising employee involvement in service innovation: an integrative review

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marit Engen ◽  
Lars Fuglsang ◽  
Tiina Tuominen ◽  
Jon Sundbo ◽  
Jørn Kjølseth Møller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Employee Involvement ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Innovation Studies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Innovation Activities

PurposeEmployees are considered as important contributors to service innovation, but the literature is not unanimous about what employee involvement in service innovation entails. To advance theoretical understanding of the topic, this paper develops a conceptual framework for analysing employee involvement in service innovations, reviews existing research on the topic and proposes a research agenda.Design/methodology/approachDifferent modes of employee involvement in service innovation are distinguished based on two dimensions: (1) the intensity of employee influence on service innovation and (2) the breadth of the innovation activity in which employees are involved. This conceptual framework is abductively developed through a literature review of empirical service innovation studies to identify and analyse whether and how these modes of employee involvement are manifested in the service innovation literature.FindingsThe findings delineate six modes of employee involvement in the reviewed service innovation studies. Employees are primarily seen as having a strong influence on situated innovation activities but a limited influence on systemic innovation activities. The findings show that more research is needed to assess the connections between different modes of employee involvement.Practical implicationsThe findings can be used by practitioners to assess the possibilities different modes of employee involvement may bring to service innovation activities.Originality/valueThe proposed conceptual framework and the analysis of current research and research gaps in service innovation studies provide a clear research agenda for progressing multidimensional understanding of employee involvement in service innovation.

scholarly journals What to study when studying media and communication innovation? Research design for the digital age

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josef Trappel
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Media Economics ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Innovation Studies ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Media And Communication

Since the final two decades of the 20th century technology mediated communication transforms from analogue into digital with serious implications on human communication. This process is usually called (digital) innovation. This article revisits the scholarly understanding of innovation in the field of media and communication from a normative point of view and subsequently develops an innovation research agenda which builds on this concept. This research agenda is built on the requirements of a democratic public sphere and consists of five levels: structural conditions, content production, communication and media economics, distribution and delivery as well as usage and user experience. Communication Innovation Studies (CIS) should undertake interdisciplinary research on communication innovation to evaluate and measure improvements or deteriorations of democratic values such as freedom, equality, diversity, solidarity and participation.

scholarly journals TMT Diversity, Decision Quality and Service Sector Firm Performance: A Research Agenda

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice A. Oduor ◽  
James M. Kilika
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Decision Quality ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Future Research

This paper reviews the extant theoretical and empirical literatures on TMT Diversity, Decision Quality and firm performance in a service sector setting. The constructs are traced from their theoretical roots and their nature, characteristics and operational descriptions provided. The emerging gaps in knowledge emanating from the theoretical and empirical literature are summarized and a theoretical model linking the constructs proposed. The paper makes several propositions and calls on future research to develop data collection tools for measuring the constructs in the study in empirical work.

A bibliometric review on innovation systems and ecosystems: a research agenda

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arho Suominen ◽  
Marko Seppänen ◽  
Ozgur Dedehayir
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Innovation Systems ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Ecosystem Research ◽  
Innovation Studies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Thomson Reuters ◽  
Ecosystem Studies

Purpose The ecosystem perspective on innovation and business has emerged as the secret sauce of innovative organizations. While its theoretical foundations are premised on innovation system literature, the broad adoption of the ecosystem concept has resulted in conceptual ambiguity. The purpose of this paper is to tackle the ambiguous use of innovation ecosystem terminology and structure a conceptual frame for the field, identifying definitions of an innovation ecosystem and how the concept has been established in previous literature. Design/methodology/approach This paper examines the ambiguous use of terminology by reviewing the literature with bibliometric coupling and co-citation analysis by which thematic differences in ecosystem literature were identified. The study gathered the scientific publications from Thomson Reuters Web of Sciences Core Collection (n=4,681) from 1990 to 2015. Findings Six major bibliometrically coupled clusters were identified, of which the three largest clusters are innovation system studies, regional innovation studies and technological innovation studies. In addition, further analysis shows an emerging cluster that is focused on ecosystems, having its roots in eight seminal papers. This ecosystem research cluster includes seven sub-clusters, such as innovation ecosystem studies, business ecosystem studies and studies focusing on ecosystem development. Research limitations/implications The authors’ approach highlights how a lot of recent ecosystem studies actually belong to previous, well-developed research streams. However, there is also a separate, emergent research stream that includes the innovation and ecosystem studies. As a research implication, the paper concludes by suggesting the research agenda for further studies. Originality/value Even though literature on innovation systems and ecosystems is extensive literature, no studies have captured the emergence of the ecosystems approach and its relation with the systems of innovation literature.

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