Modeling Innovation Sustainability and Technologies: Economic and Policy Perspectives

333 Pages·2018·7.37 MB·English

by  Albertina Dias,Bror Salmelin,David Pereira,Miguel Sales Dias (eds.)

Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics
Albertina Dias
Bror Salmelin
David Pereira
Miguel Sales Dias Editors
Modeling
Innovation
Sustainability
and Technologies
Economic and Policy Perspectives
Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics
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Albertina Dias (cid:129) Bror Salmelin (cid:129) David Pereira (cid:129)
Miguel Sales Dias
Editors
Modeling Innovation
Sustainability and
Technologies
Economic and Policy Perspectives
Editors
AlbertinaDias BrorSalmelin
BusinessandEconomics DGCommunicationsNetworks,
NewAtlanticUniversity ContentsandTechnology
PortoSalvo,Portugal EuropeanCommission
Brussels,Belgium
DavidPereira MiguelSalesDias
FaculdadedeCieˆnciaseTecnologia ISCTE-Instituto
UniversidadeNovadeLisboa UniversitariodeLisboa
Lisboa,Portugal Lisboa,Portugal
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Foreword
Thisisamostrefreshingsetofstoriesfromthefrontlineofinnovation.
While theEU institutionsreview currentpolicy and,Ihope,increasethe focus
on pro-innovation policies, the wide range of initiatives reported in these pages
showveryclearlyhowfastopeninnovationpracticespreadsalreadyacrossregions
andacrosssectors.
The cases coming from services promotion and from environmental policy are
particularlyinspiring:whateveracommunity’schallenge,moreandmorecreative
innovationwillbepartoftheanswer.
Thefocusonmodelingreportedhereisaproofoftheincreasingmaturityofour
understanding of innovation systems. But the self-developing (autopoietic) nature
ofinnovationsystemsmeansthatmodelingthemisinitselfapioneeringchallenge,
where brute force and established practice must evolve toward new data analysis
approaches.Moreinnovationisneeded.
Oxford RobertMadelin
April2017
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Foreword by the European Commission
MISTstandsforModelingInnovationSustainabilityandTechnologies,whichisof
growing importance. The innovation landscape has fundamentally changed from
the rather well-defined, even predictable “old” economic behaviors to the new,
connected and networked world where the interdependencies together with the
dynamicspresentarealchallenge.
What I see as the challenge for this book too is to keep the strong focus on
modelingitself,basedonanunderstandingofmoderninnovation.Wearenolonger
inlinear,predictableinnovationprocesses,sincemuchoftheinnovationisparallel,
networked,andmultidisciplinary.
Forpolicy making, theinnovation modeling can bringvaluablehintsonwhich
kindsofprocessesbestfosterthesuccessandspeedofinnovationandhowtobuild
enabling technologies but increasingly more relational infrastructures for success.
According to the work by Lin and Edvinsson, the structural intellectual capital is
thekeyfactorforsuccessfulinnovationpolicy,i.e.,howthevariouselementsinthe
wholeinnovationsysteminteract!Itisnotaboutcreatinginnovationorknowledge
islandsbuttocreatetheinteractions,reflections,andprocesses.
AlsonoteworthyisdiscoveringthatintheWesternworldknowledgeisseenvery
muchasanobjectonecanpossess,butinEasternculturestheknowledgeisseenas
interaction,asareflectiveprocessbetweentheindividuals.
Innovation is to make things happen, and innovation ecosystems at their best
catalyze collisions igniting new ideas and bringing them into innovations. Infra-
structures, i.e., open innovation environments including all stakeholders in the
Open Innovation 2.0 perspective, make rapid prototyping and experimentation in
real-worldsettingspossible,creatingearlyindicationsonthesuccessfulpathstogo
forwardandofcoursethosetobekilledaswell.
Modeling this complexity and these interdependencies can help policy makers
discoverthesuccessfulpathsforbuildingconnectedinnovationecosystems.Ihope
that this first MIST book will develop a strong driving force behind innovation
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modeling for policy development in Europe. We surely have interesting elements
andemerginginfrastructuresinEurope,buthavingaholisticvisionontheneeded
actionsforimpactisverymuchwhatisnowneeded.
AdvisorforInnovationSystems BrorSalmelin
DirectorateGeneralfor
CommunicationsNetworks
ContentandTechnology
(DGCONNECT)
EuropeanCommission
Brussels
Belgium
Brief Description
Today, we are witnessing an extraordinary fast changing world with multiple
disruptive technologies. The growing power of artificial intelligence, machine
learning,cloud computing, big data and the so called IoT (Internet ofthe Things)
have brought the need to adapt for many individuals and organizations, which is
resultinginradicalnewformsofbusinessmodeling,policies,societalsystemsand
societyitself,aswell.
This book focuses, not exclusively but mainly, on a set of real cases across
several European regions where innovation modeling is needed urgently. By
documentingtheanalysisonthenewcreativeideasandontheconcretebottlenecks
toimplementinnovationscapableofsatisfyingmarketneedsanditschallengeswe
attempttodistilthewisdomfromtheongoingreality.
AlbertinaDias
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Contents
EditorialIntroduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
AlbertinaDias,BrorSalmelin,DavidPereira,andMiguelSalesDias
PartI InnovationEconomicsandPolicyPerspectives
LivingLabsandOpenInnovationinEuropeanContext. . . . . . . . . . . . 7
AlbertinaDiasandBrorSalmelin
TheConsequencesofTaxBaseRulesonEnterpriseInnovationinthe
EuropeanUnion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
ZˇanetaLacova´ andJa´nHunˇady
AbsorptiveCapacityofR&DinSpace:AConceptualApproachtothe
ProductivityParadox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Ma´rioA.P.M.DaSilvaandPeterNijkamp
PartII InnovationManagementandPolicyPerspectives:CaseStudies
intheCentralEuropeanCountries
TheRegionalInnovationPolicy:TheSituationofSlovakia. . . . . . . . . . 55
MariaHorehajovaandJanaMarasova
ThePerceivedValueofPublicServicesasaPrerequisitefora
ComprehensiveAnalysisoftheEffectivenessofPublicSector
OrganizationsUsingtheCzechLibraryasanExample. . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
SimonaPichovaandJanStejskal
DeterminantsofInnovationActivities:PublicFinancingand
Cooperation:CaseStudyofCzechRepublicandHungary. . . . . . . . . . 77
ViktorProkopandJanStejskal
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