language: English
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Strengthening digital collaboration to enhance social innovation capital: an analysis of Italian small innovative enterprises
The study investigates the impact of digital collaboration and digital tools on social innovation capital in Italian small innovative enterprises (SIEs). It found that resource sharing and sharing intensity positively influence SIEs’ innovative capacity, with digital patterns enhancing this effect. The research highlights the importance of digital collaboration in strengthening social innovation within small enterprises.
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Social innovation for a circular economy in social housing
The study examines the role of social housing communities in advancing the circular economy (CE) in urban settings, highlighting the importance of rethinking production and consumption for sustainable resource use. It identifies seven types of social innovation (SI) initiatives that promote resource circularity, outlining the potential benefits, opportunities, and challenges for social housing communities. These…
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Disruptive technologies for the transition of digital economies towards sustainability
The paper explores disruptive technologies, tracing their role from altering socio-economic formations to enabling the Internet of Things (IoT). It identifies innovations like PCs, mobile phones, and AI as core to IoT, predicting 37 billion connected devices by 2024. The study examines disruptive technologies’ economic impact, highlighting their dual creative and destructive nature. Key drivers…
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Open innovation and its effects on economic and sustainability innovation performance
This research investigates how different open innovation partners impact firms’ economic and sustainability innovation performance. It examines whether pursuing both types of innovation goals leads to conflict. By analyzing a cross-sectional sample of industrial firms, the study identifies key drivers of performance, including collaboration with NGOs and intermediaries. It finds that economic and sustainability innovations…
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Social innovation and community energy transitions
This review examines Social Innovation’s (SI) impact on sustainable energy transitions, focusing on low-carbon strategies, civic empowerment, and social goals through governance, policies, and new business models. Analyzing literature through bibliometric and content analysis, it categorizes SI by type, renewable energy source, and geography, highlighting sociotechnical changes, challenges, and enablers. Findings suggest SI plays a…
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Social and Economic Networks: Models and Analysis
Learn to model social and economic networks and their impact on human behavior, exploring network formation, patterns, and influences on behaviors like spreading and learning. The course integrates concepts from economics, sociology, mathematics, physics, statistics, and computer science, covering empirical network backgrounds, descriptive and measurement concepts, formation models, and how networks affect behavior.
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Antecedents, moderators, and outcomes of innovation climate and open innovation: An empirical study in SMEs
This paper assesses the impact of organizational antecedents and innovation climate on open innovation (OI) and its effects on SME performance. Utilizing a structural equation model with data from 429 Spanish SMEs, it finds organizational factors and innovation climate enhance both inbound and outbound OI. Environmental dynamism notably boosts the innovation climate’s effect on outbound…
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The Passway of Women Entrepreneurship: Starting from Social Capital with Open Innovation, through to Knowledge Sharing and Innovative Performance
This research explores how social capital impacts women entrepreneurs in Bali, Indonesia, focusing on its role in the creative industry’s development. It finds social capital positively influences business performance, with Balinese Hindu norms shaping information use for innovation. However, women face obstacles like limited capital access, technological skills, market access, and cultural biases. Employing Structural…
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SMEs need formative infrastructure for business transformation
The study explores ICT adoption in SMEs, emphasizing the unique conditions and sensemaking processes required due to their limited resources compared to larger companies. It reveals that SMEs depend more on external relationships for ICT adoption and use, identifying three main needs: sensemaking, sensegiving, and service infrastructures. The research, based on over 60 interviews, suggests…
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Knowledge Management and ICT Adaptions as a Result of Pandemic Workplace Restrictions: A Case Study at a SME in Germany
This project assesses COVID-19’s impact on a German SME’s knowledge management and ICT use, revealing a shift to virtual operations and integrated ICT for better collaboration and knowledge codification. The pandemic induced a streamlined ICT approach, enhancing efficiency and knowledge accessibility. Recommendations include continuing the hybrid management strategy and rethinking physical and virtual workspace designs.…