We develop a dynamic model for digital service firms, which invest in monetization to generate revenues from services provided to customers for free. Our model captures and explains why such firms often build a large customer base and become highly valued while continuing to suffer...

Several scholars as well as industry professionals have claimed that there is a "software-biased shift" in the nature and direction of innovation in that software development is a core part of innovation activities in firms across a wide array of industries. Empirical firm-level evidence of such...

Several scholars as well as industry professionals have claimed that there is a “softwarebiasedshift” in the nature and direction of innovation in that software development is a core part of innovation activities in firms across a wide array of industries. Empirical firm-level evidence of...

This article will illustrate how a Strategic Corporate Innovation Management™ system can generate shareholder confidence through the continued and timely introduction of newly anticipated inventive solutions that will successfully be adopted by a specified target market. In this context,...

This paper addresses recent developments within the social shaping perspective, specifically the forward-looking and political dimensions of intervening in processes of innovation. With a focus on the concept of ‘temporary spaces’ as an analytical framework we present a study of a case on...

The limitations of using patent data as a measure of technological innovation have long been known (Griliches, 1990). Despite this, patent data are frequently used in this way, providing potentially misleading analyses for policy makers. Kingston and Scally (2006) have shown that, for countries...

In this article, we explore the Covid-19 crisis through the lens of innovation. We focus on the threat and opportunity drivers of innovation, and some of their product/service and process outcomes. We contribute to crisis innovation theory and practice by suggesting that there are two categories...

We examine antecedents of knowledge recombination and technological breakthroughs. Conceptualizing exploration as a combinatory search of prior new-recombination (an original technology component), we juxtapose contrasting effects of the boundary in which firms search for prior new-recombination...

Empirical studies have analyzed the effectiveness of various appropriability mechanisms, and have carved out a number of contingency factors such as industry, country, technology, and commercialization strategy. This literature, however, neglects the strategic possibility that organizations...

Open innovation is often facilitated by strong intellectual property rights (IPRs), but it may also function, and even be boosted, when firms deliberately waive some of their IPRs. Extant literature has pointed out the potential benefits of such behavior, but falls short of explaining what...