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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

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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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KM

EDI

eBizeCom

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SFA

CRMCRM

Organizational IT Innovations 2001

CRM

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 pwang@umd.edu

College of Information StudiesUniversity of Maryland4105 Hornbake Bldg, South WingCollege Park, MD 20742-4325

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