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Where Do Games Of Innovation Come From? Explaining The Persistence Of Dynamic Innovation Patterns

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  • SERGHEI FLORICEL

    (Department of Management and Technology, University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), P.O. Box 8888, Downtown Station, Montreal (Quebec), H3C 3P8, Canada)

  • DEBORAH DOUGHERTY

    (Department of Management and Global Business, Rutgers Business School, Newark and New Brunswick, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 111 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102, USA)

Abstract

This paper contributes to explaining how and why distinct games of innovation emerge by suggesting that games are nested in innovation systems with persistent innovation dynamics. Dominant lifecycle models focus on how innovation systems transit from an effervescent stage, to product innovation, to process innovation, and so on. They propose specific mechanisms and limiting conditions that affect knowledge production and investment to explain these systematic transitions. Building on these models, we rethink the conditions and mechanisms of innovation to suggest that endogenous renewal cycles can re-create the knowledge and funding necessary to maintain innovation systems for long periods in one stage. We take steps towards developing a theoretical model of innovation dynamics that extends the applicability of lifecycle theories and unifies them with emerging views such as high-velocity innovation and hyper-competition. We also describe three possible types of endogenous renewal cycles, each sustaining a different level of knowledge dynamism and enabling different types of games of innovation.

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  • Serghei Floricel & Deborah Dougherty, 2007. "Where Do Games Of Innovation Come From? Explaining The Persistence Of Dynamic Innovation Patterns," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 11(01), pages 65-91.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:11:y:2007:i:01:n:s136391960700162x
    DOI: 10.1142/S136391960700162X
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    Cited by:

    1. Deborah Dougherty & Danielle D. Dunne, 2011. "Organizing Ecologies of Complex Innovation," Organization Science, INFORMS, vol. 22(5), pages 1214-1223, October.
    2. Helge Godoe & John Vigrestad & Roger Miller, 2014. "Fuzzy Front End and Commercialization: Cross-Cultural Differences, Similarities, and Paradoxes in Innovation Strategies and Practices," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 5(2), pages 276-293, June.
    3. Ohsung Kwon, 2020. "A study on how startups approach sustainable development through intellectual property," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 28(4), pages 613-625, July.
    4. Serghei Floricel & Sorin Piperca & Richard Tee, 2018. "Strategies for Managing the Structural and Dynamic Consequences of Project Complexity," Complexity, Hindawi, vol. 2018, pages 1-17, May.

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