Birth and Expansion of Innovation Ecosystems: A Case Study of Copper Production

Autor: Ozgur Dedehayir, Marko Seppänen
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Journal of Technology Management & Innovation, Vol 10, Iss 2 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0718-2724
DOI: 10.4067/S0718-27242015000200010
Popis: Despite the growing attention innovation ecosystems have received from scholars and practitioners, rather little is known about the crucial birth and expansion phases that these ecosystems experience. Through a single case in the complex product system (CoPS) environment, this paper investigates the development of an innovation ecosystem between 1980 and 2007. The findings demonstrate that the ecosystem’s birth phase includes sub-phases, namely, invention and start-up, where the ecosystem is reconfigured to find the appropriate form and the proper actors to satisfy the first customer’s requirements. Moreover, the duration of the expansion phase is found to be remarkably long, suggesting that within the CoPS setting, expansion may also include two or more sub-phases.
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