Senja Svahn: Innovation networks @ TEDx AaltoUniversityOnTracks

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
Scope
IncremRadical
Single Clusters
Scale

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

(Adapted from Normann 1995)
Systemic Innovation Space

”Environmental” characteristics
Landscape of Emergent Business Networks (1/2)

Landscape of Emergent Business Networks (2/2)

FromExploration to FocusIdentification 1
Exploring for Future Business
Sense making  Recognizing ideas
Making sense of ideas
Influenced by  Actor’s network position  ”exposure”
 Actor’snetworktheory
 ”absoptive capacity”
Pool of Ideas – Variety
Exploration

From Exploration to Focus Identification2
Exploring for Future Business
Selecting & Focusing Capability to selectideas for focusseddevelopment
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

Design and Application Competition
Mobilization for Applications
Net Mobilization:
Actor identification  Capabilities, positions & roles
Agenda setting  Develop an attractive and credible vision
Influencedby:
Visioning capability  attractiveness & credibility
Cooperative capability  architecture

Competition for Production and Distribution
Mobilization for Dissemination
Building of competitiveDemand-SupplyNets
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
Emergencecanbecharacterized in interrelatedphases
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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