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on Innovation |
| By: | Gilsing, V. (Ecis, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven); Nooteboom, B. (Erasmus University Rotterdam) |
| Keywords: | innovation, networks, biotechnology |
| Date: | 2004 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:dgr:tuecis:0416&r=ino |
| By: | Silverberg, G. (MERIT, Maastricht University); Verspagen, B. (Ecis, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) |
| Keywords: | distribution, patent, innovation |
| Date: | 2004 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:dgr:tuecis:0417&r=ino |
| By: | Jacob, J. (Ecis, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) |
| Keywords: | industrialisation, structural, change, Indonesia |
| Date: | 2004 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:dgr:tuecis:0418&r=ino |
| By: | Garavaglia, C. (CESPRI, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy and Cattaneo University, LIUC, Castellanza (VA), Italy) |
| Keywords: | simulation, models, industrial dynamics |
| Date: | 2004 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:dgr:tuecis:0419&r=ino |
| By: | Heimeriks, K. (Ecis, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven); Duysters, G.M. (Ecis, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven); Vanhaverbeke, W.P.M. (Ecis, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) |
| Keywords: | evolution, alliance |
| Date: | 2004 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:dgr:tuecis:0420&r=ino |
| By: | Heimeriks, K. (Ecis, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven); Duysters, G.M. (Ecis, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) |
| Keywords: | simulation, models |
| Date: | 2004 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:dgr:tuecis:0421&r=ino |
| By: | Paul Windrum |
| Abstract: | The paper examines the innovation dynamics of the mature camera market between 1955 and 1974. This highlights the importance of heterogeneous preferences in determining industry structure. By recognising and accommodating consumer heterogeneity, new firms engaged in radical product and process innovation and overcame the first-mover advantages of dominant firms. The case raises important issues for our understanding of industry life cycles. First, a number of innovation cycles are possible over the life cycle. Second, new rounds of entry, exist and market shake-out can occur, with new, innovative entrants displacing old firms. If the new firms are in developing countries then a shift in global production occurs. Third, a basic tenet of Porterian competitive advantage is overturned because success is based on innovation not wage-cost advantages. Fourth, market structure can change, the industry dividing into a number of market niches that contain distinct user groups. Fifth, incremental modular innovations may be adopted by some user groups but not by others. Consequently, incremental product innovations may be adopted in low-priced goods but not in high-priced goods. |
| Keywords: | industry life cycle, innovation, heterogeneous preferences, cameras, photography |
| JEL: | L10 L60 |
| Date: | 2004–12 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:esi:evopap:2004-18&r=ino |
| By: | Lars Bo Jeppesen & Lars Frederiksen |
| Abstract: | Studies of the sources of innovations have recognized that many innovations are developed by users. However, the fact that firms employ communities of users to strengthen their innovation process has not yet received much attention. In firm-established user communities users freely reveal innovations to a firm’s product platform, which in turn puts the firm in a favorable position (a) because these new product features become available to all users by sharing on a user-to-user basis, or (b) because it allows the firm to pick up the innovations and integrate them in future products and then benefit by selling them to all users. We study the key personal attributes of the individuals responsible for innovations and the creation of value in this organizational context, namely the innovative users, to explain why firm-established user communities work. Analyzing data derived from a web-based questionnaire generating 442 answers we find that innovative users are likely to be (i) hobbyists, an attribute that can be assumed to affect innovators’ willingness to share innovations (positively), and (ii) responsive to “firm-recognition” as a motivating factor for undertaking innovation, which explains their decision to join the firm’s domain. In agreement with earlier studies we also find that innovative users are likely to be “lead users”, an attribute that we assume to affect the quality of user innovation. Whether or not a firm-established user community can be turned into an asset for the firm is to a great extent conditioned by the issues studied in this paper. |
| Keywords: | Innovation, User community, User Characteristics |
| JEL: | L21 L23 O31 O32 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ivs:iivswp:04-02&r=ino |
| By: | Diego Comin; Bart Hobijn |
| Abstract: | Do lobbies affect technology diffusion and growth? A number of authors have identified the importance of vested interests as a deterrent to technology diffusion and the relevance that this may have for growth. however, the evidence that exists about this mechanism is just anecdotal. In this paper we build a model of lobbying and technology diffusion where the speed of diffusion of new technologies depends on some dimensions of the political regime and on the whether there is an old technology that may be substituted by the new technology. This differential effect of institutions on the diffusion of technologies with a predecessor constitutes the central element of our identification strategy. To implement this test we use technology diffusion data from Comin and Hobijn [2004]. We find that the relevant institutional variables have a differential effect on the diffusion of technologies with a predecessor technology as predicted by the theory. We show that this result is unlikely to be driven by omitted variables, or reverse causality. |
| JEL: | N10 O30 O57 |
| Date: | 2005–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:11022&r=ino |