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An Integrative Framework for Understanding the Innovation
Ecosystem
Ping Wang
Copyright © 2009 by Ping Wang
Innovation Brings Us Hope!
“This really is an innovative approach, but I’m afraid we can’t consider it. It’s never been done before.”
Cartoon by Aaron Bacall 2
Innovation and Key QuestionsAn innovation is an idea, practice, or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other unit of development and adoption.Is investment in innovation sufficient?Does more investment always lead to more innovations?When does investment lead to innovation?What kind of innovation helps boost economy?
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Innovation World
Institute for Large Scale Innovation4
SciSIP and Its ChallengesScience of Science and Innovation Policy: Scientific inquiry on how innovation, in all its forms, contributes to economic growth and social well-being.Theoretical challenge: Separatetreatments of innovation production and useMethodological challenge: Lack of tools to collect and analyze longitudinal, large-scale data
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Production of Innovations
Hage & Hollingsworth 2000
Government Investors
Universities
Vendors
Venture Capitals
Government Labs
Designers Regulators
Ad Agencies
Production of Innovations
Basic Research Applied Research Product Development Manufacturing Marketing
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Use of Innovations
Swanson & Ramiller 2004
User Organizations
Universities
Media
Market Researchers
Consultants
Financiers Distributors
General Public
Use of Innovations
Comprehension Adoption Implementation Assimilation Abandonment
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Innovation Community
Government Investors
Universities
Vendors
Venture Capitals
Government Labs
Designers Regulators
Ad Agencies
Production of Innovations
Basic Research Applied Research Product Development Manufacturing Marketing
User Organizations
Universities
Media
Market Researchers
Consultants
Financiers Distributors
General Public
Use of Innovations
Comprehension Adoption Implementation Assimilation Abandonment
Supply
Demand Community for Innovation A
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Innovation Ecosystem
Government Investors
Universities
Vendors
Venture Capitals
Government Labs
Designers Regulators
Ad Agencies
Production of Innovations
Basic Research Applied Research Product Development Manufacturing Marketing
User Organizations
Universities
Media
Market Researchers
Consultants
Financiers Distributors
General Public
Use of Innovations
Comprehension Adoption Implementation Assimilation Abandonment
Supply
Demand Community for Innovation A
Community for Innovation B
Community for Innovation C
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Methodological GuidelinesStudy discourse of diverse actors and activities.Collect discourse data from multiple sources.Study multiple innovations and communities.Study both success and failure.Take advantage of computational analysis.Computational and human analysis inform each other.
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SOA
Cloud Computing
BPO
Semantic Web
Portable Personality RFID
Tera-architectures
Business Intelligence
Mashup
Ajax
Web2.0
DRM
Ultramobile Devices
Distributed Encryption
Chatbots
Thin Provisioning
CRM
VoIP
SaaS
OSS
Application Quality Dashboards
Identity Management
SCM
IT for Innovation vs. IT as Innovation
48 IT Innovations in Trade Press
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Organizational IT Innovations 1998
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TakeawaysResearch shifts from paradigm-driven orientation to problem-driven orientationLarge-scale problems (like innovation) need large-scale solutions.Interdisciplinary collaboration is key
Economists work with sociologistsComputer/information scientists work with social scientists
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Acknowledgement and ContactThis work is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant IIS-0729459. Ping Wang [email protected]
College of Information StudiesUniversity of Maryland4105 Hornbake Bldg, South WingCollege Park, MD 20742-4325