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Tackling the critical hurdles – revising technology-based ideation processes

Manthey, Sarah I. ORCID iD icon 1; Eckerle, Christin ORCID iD icon 1; Terzidis, Orestis ORCID iD icon 1
1 Institut für Entrepreneurship, Technologiemanagement und Innovation (ENTECHNON), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

Technological innovations are crucial for a country’s economic growth as they often have radical innovation potential. Although recognized as a key role in the innovation process, lots of technologies remain unexploited. University spin-offs (USOs) have the potential to transfer technologies into technological innovations. Often though, in universities there is a lack of consideration of potential implementation right from the start. The so-called fuzzyfront end (FFE) stage is crucial for successful innovation, as no commercialization can be achieved without the identification of a suitable application. This represents a critical hurdle, as of to date appropriate approaches for a successful systematic identification and validation of technology applications are missing. Furthermore, most investigating studies rely on data from spin-offs that are already operating successfully on the market and have therefore survived the critical initial stages of development, without highlighting the FFE of their process. This fact makes the pre-development activity of opportunity recognition appear to be a scientifically neglected topic.
In this research a mixed-method approach is conducted to investigate the critical hurdles in the technology application selection (TAS) process of technologies, consisting of an extended literature review, completed by interviews with stakeholder involved in the USOs ecosystem. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000145850/pub
Veröffentlicht am 24.07.2023
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.34190/ecie.17.1.397
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Entrepreneurship, Technologiemanagement und Innovation (ENTECHNON)
Publikationstyp Proceedingsbeitrag
Publikationsdatum 08.09.2022
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISBN: 978-1-914587-49-8
ISSN: 2049-1050
KITopen-ID: 1000145850
Erschienen in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Hosted by Neapolis University, Pafos, Cyprus, 15–16 September 2022. Ed.: P. Sklias
Veranstaltung 17th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE 2022), Paphos, Zypern, 15.09.2022 – 16.09.2022
Verlag Academic Conferences and Publishing International (ACPI)
Seiten 327-335
Serie Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship ; 17
Schlagwörter Technological innovation; Technology Application Selection; Entrepreneurship; Technology-Push
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