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Innovation networks –How to actively facilitate innovations?
Senja Svahn
TedX @ Trans-Siperian train 16.5.2010
Outline
- Drivers of networks- Innovation categories- Innovation networks
- Main characteristics- Emergence
- Environment- Phases
- Conclutions
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Why networks?
• Increasing externalization of value activities• Dependence on partners• Different forms of collaboration (from carindustry to R&D)• Increasing globalization (competition)• Benefits• Information overflow (dispersed knowledge, Internet)• Technological complexity
=> Major innovations not alone
Knowledge based innovations
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Characteristics of Innovations & Environment
Innovation Types (Freeman & Perez, 1988)
• Incremental innovations• Radical – dicontinuous
innovations• Technological systems• Techno-Economics paradigms
Systemity of Innovation • Number of capabilities required• Level of compatibility with
existing infrastructure
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Characteristics of innovative networks
• By exploring how actors influence and organize new business fields
• Characterized by searching for innovations and new business opportunities
• Creating new technologies or even technological paradigms
• Characterized by uncertainty and radical changes in the field
• This uncertainty creates business opportunities for those who are able to make sense and “structurize” the field
MANY CAPABILITIES
FEW CAPABILITIES
HIGH COMPATIBILITYWITH USER SYSTEMS
NEW SYSTEMS/INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDED
DIGITAL CAMERA
COPIER
SONY WALKMAN
FAX
BLUETOOTH-COALITION
MULTI-MEDIA HOMEENTERTAINMENT
COMPACTDISC
MANY CAPABILITIES
FEW CAPABILITIES
HIGH COMPATIBILITYWITH USER SYSTEMS
NEW SYSTEMS/INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDED
DIGITAL CAMERA
COPIER
SONY WALKMAN
FAX
BLUETOOTH-COALITION
MULTI-MEDIA HOMEENTERTAINMENT
COMPACTDISC
(Adapted from Normann 1995)
Systemic Innovation Space
Complexity Novelty Embeddedness Dynamics
• Types of resources
• Types of capabilities
• Types of actors
• Share of new resources and capabilities
• Uniqueness in relation to existing alternatives
• Level of connectedness
• Number of nets
• Pace of change
• Number of activities
”Environmental” characteristics
Landscape of Emergent Business Networks (1/2)
* Complexity - Types of resources - Types of capabilities - Types of actors
* Novelty - Share of new resources
and capabilities - Uniqueness in relation to
existing alternatives
* Embeddednes - Level of
connectedness - Number of nets
* Dynamics - Pace of change - Number of
activities
Environment characteristics
Mobilization for Applications
Mobilization for Dissemination
From Exploration to Focus Identification
Design and Application Competition
Competition for Production and Distribution
Exploring for Future Business
* Complexity - Types of resource - Types of capability - Types of actor
* Novelty - Share of new resources
and capabilities - Uniqueness in relation to
existing alternatives
* Embeddednes - Level of
connectedness - Number of nets
* Dynamics - Pace of change - Number of
activities
Environment characteristics
Mobilization for Applications
Mobilization for Dissemination
From Exploration to Focus Identification
Design and Application Competition
Competition for Production and Distribution
Exploring for Future Business
Landscape of Emergent Business Networks (2/2)
Mobilization for Applications
Mobilization for Dissemination
From Exploration to Focus Identification
Design and Application Competition
Competition for Production and Distribution
Exploring for Future Business
Mobilization for Applications
Mobilization for Dissemination
From Exploration to Focus Identification
Design and Application Competition
Competition for Production and Distribution
Exploring for Future Business
Exploring for Future Business
From Exploration to Focus Identification 1
Sense making Recognizing ideas
Making sense of ideas
Influenced by Actor’s network position ”exposure”
Actor’s network theory
”absoptive capacity”
Pool of Ideas – Variety
Exploration
Mobilization for Applications
Mobilization for Dissemination
From Exploration to Focus Identification
Design and Application Competition
Competition for Production and Distribution
Exploring for Future Business
Mobilization for Applications
Mobilization for Dissemination
From Exploration to Focus Identification
Design and Application Competition
Competition for Production and Distribution
Exploring for Future Business
Exploring for Future Business
From Exploration to Focus Identification 2
Selecting & Focusing Capability to select ideas for focussed development
Influenced by Degree of embeddedness & uncertainty of idea(s) Corporate level knowledge integration mechanisms Justification of new ideas/focus --- culture
Sense making & Selecting & Focusing
A Framing – Reframing Capability
Mobilization for Applications
Mobilization for Dissemination
From Exploration to Focus Identification
Design and Application Competition
Competition for Production and Distribution
Exploring for Future Business
Mobilization for Applications
Mobilization for Dissemination
From Exploration to Focus Identification
Design and Application Competition
Competition for Production and Distribution
Exploring for Future Business
Mobilization for Applications
Design and Application Competition
Net Mobilization:• Actor identification Capabilities, positions & roles• Agenda setting Develop an attractive and credible
vision
Influenced by:• Visioning capability attractiveness & credibility• Cooperative capability architecture
Mobilization for Applications
Mobilization for Dissemination
From Exploration to Focus Identification
Design and Application Competition
Competition for Production and Distribution
Exploring for Future Business
Mobilization for Applications
Mobilization for Dissemination
From Exploration to Focus Identification
Design and Application Competition
Competition for Production and Distribution
Exploring for Future Business
Mobilization for Dissemination
Competition for Production and Distribution
Building of competitive Demand-Supply Nets
• Net management capability• Net business models – roles, responsibilities, value• Organisational solutions – role coordination – IT/KM –infrastructure• Knowledge codification & task coordination & integration
Wireless services innovations at bullet trains – ICT System Implementation
Case Bullettrain
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Analysis of requirements
• Identifying facts: knowledge & competences• How to identify what knowledge you must have?• What knowledge is missing?• Missing factors:
• How to deal with non-existing knowledge• Is it possible to produce?• When to produce new infrastructure/technology
• How to facilitate knowledge creation?• How to integrate knowledge into innovation? • Learning & absorptive capacity
Conclutions
• Emergence can be characterized in interrelated phases
• Goal-directed actor behavior and serendipity
• Actor’s learning orientation and absorptive capacity while creating future
• Actors with advanced capabilities can influence their own destinies and influence into the development of emergence
Thank you for your attention!
Be innovative,
Drive the way to the
future!
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