Management literature has highlighted that under discontinuous conditions incumbents have encountered serious obstacles in identifying, develop and commercialize innovations as traditional and validated ‘good’ approaches are not adequate, or even counterproductive. It is therefore necessary to identify and deploy the capabilities and practices that organisations could apply for enhancing their capacity to manage discontinuous innovation (DI). Based on a comprehensive literature review on search practices and on the empirical background of the Discontinuous Innovation Lab - a research network covering around 180 firms in 12 countries - we developed a questionnaire submitted to a 600 high tech Italian firm sample (respondents are R&D directors or general managers). This paper builds on the practice-based model for the search phase that we have previously tested by using the Structural Equation Modelling, and enlarges the analysis to empirically validate performance, both innovative and financial ones.

Search Practices and Performance for Discontinuous Innovation: First Results of a Survey on High Tech Firms

NOSELLA, ANNA
2010

Abstract

Management literature has highlighted that under discontinuous conditions incumbents have encountered serious obstacles in identifying, develop and commercialize innovations as traditional and validated ‘good’ approaches are not adequate, or even counterproductive. It is therefore necessary to identify and deploy the capabilities and practices that organisations could apply for enhancing their capacity to manage discontinuous innovation (DI). Based on a comprehensive literature review on search practices and on the empirical background of the Discontinuous Innovation Lab - a research network covering around 180 firms in 12 countries - we developed a questionnaire submitted to a 600 high tech Italian firm sample (respondents are R&D directors or general managers). This paper builds on the practice-based model for the search phase that we have previously tested by using the Structural Equation Modelling, and enlarges the analysis to empirically validate performance, both innovative and financial ones.
2010
11th International Cinet conference "Practicing innovation in times of discontinuity"
9789077360132
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