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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Berkegui Oubedatou Sinatoko Djibo, Emmanuel Mensah Horsey, Shuliang Zhao
Summary: This study analyzes the impact of government institutional support on eco-innovation adoption and the moderating role of market performance. The findings demonstrate that government support positively affects eco-innovation, but market performance negatively moderates this relationship. Therefore, collaboration between government and enterprises is crucial for promoting eco-innovation adoption.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
John Coffie Azamela, Zhiwei Tang, Ackah Owusu, Sulemana Bankuoru Egala, Emmanuel Bruce
Summary: This study investigates the impact of institutional creativity and innovation capacity on public innovation performance in Ghana. The findings show that organizational creativity has a positive impact, while innovation capacity does not significantly affect innovation performance. Inter-agency collaboration and institutional leadership contribute positively to creativity and innovation capacity, while stakeholder pressure has a negative impact on both creativity and innovation performance.
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Business
Xuemei Xie, Hongwei Wang
Summary: In the context of open innovation business environments, firms are increasingly forming innovation ecosystems to enhance their innovation capabilities by interacting with diverse actors. Research on Chinese manufacturing firms in strategic emerging industries shows that a firm's innovation niche within an open innovation ecosystem positively impacts its exploratory and exploitative innovations, with these relationships being mediated by the innovation ecological network. The innovation ecological environment moderates the relationship between a firm's innovation niche and the innovation ecological network, influencing the indirect effects on the firm's exploratory and exploitative innovations.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2021)
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Urban Studies
Hyppolite Dossa Dansou, Mario Carrier
Summary: By considering the relationship between urban and rural areas, it can be said that territories can influence their development by seizing opportunities through innovative mechanisms, especially in terms of institutional innovations. Through the case of a rural commune in southern Benin that introduced inclusive governance mechanisms to address climate change, the foundations for its development have been laid and economic development has been promoted through proximity to two urban areas.
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Social Issues
Joseph K. Adjei, Samuel Adams, Lovestone Mamattah
Summary: This study examines how institutional environment influences the adoption of cloud computing in sub-Saharan Africa, finding that institutional pressures (mimetic, coercive, and normative) explain 27% of the variance in cloud computing adoption. Mimetic pressure had the greatest impact on adoption outcomes, while normative pressure had the least impact.
TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY
(2021)
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Business
J. Roland Ortt, Linda M. Kamp
Summary: This paper introduces a Technological Innovation System framework for studying niche introduction strategies from a company perspective. The framework consists of seven building blocks and seven influencing conditions. Two case studies illustrate how the framework can be used to explore the context of innovation and specify suitable introduction strategies.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Agronomy
Jean Baptiste De La Salle Tignegre, Alpha Sidy Traore, Moumouni Konate, Paul Alhassan Zaato, Ba Germain Diarra, Peter Hanson, Fred Kizito, Birhanu Zemadim Birhanu, Victor Afari-Sefa
Summary: Onion is an economically and nutritionally important vegetable crop in West Africa. This study identified AVON1310 and AVON1325 as the most stable onion varieties for sustainable production in Northern Ghana and Southern Mali.
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Management
Qinyu Ryan Wang, Yanfeng Zheng
Summary: The localization effect of cumulative innovation has been strengthening, despite the decreasing cost of knowledge transmission. Through a legal perspective, we find that a pro-patent regime discourages distant followers and leads to stronger localization. We tested this model by analyzing the impact of a pro-patent regime change and found that follow-on innovations became more localized, supporting our findings. Interestingly, scientific knowledge diffusion became less localized during the same period, unaffected by the patent regime.
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Business
Xuemei Xie, Xiaojie Liu, Cristina Blanco
Summary: This study addresses the research gap by constructing an evaluation index system and model for the niche fitness of regional innovation ecosystems (RIEs) and assessing the niche fitness of Chinese RIEs from 2010 to 2019. The findings show that the overall niche fitness of Chinese RIEs during this period was low, and the development of RIEs needs higher support from ecological factors. Additionally, the study establishes an optimized grey model (FMCGM 1,1) to forecast the niche fitness of Chinese RIEs for the years 2021-2025, which suggests that the niche fitness will gradually increase and the development mode of Chinese RIEs will become more balanced.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2023)
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Area Studies
Dawei Liu
Summary: By drawing on regime research, this article delves into the development course of distributed solar power generation in China and sheds light on the role of policy 'niches'. It was found that demonstration projects acted as niches for policy directives, leading to the formation of the new DSPG regime. Success in this process was attributed more to fortuity than rationality, and a processual analysis highlighted latent aspects of industrial management in China such as policy legacies and contingency.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CHINA
(2022)
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Management
Benoit Desmarchelier, Faridah Djellal, Faiz Gallouj
Summary: This article discusses how PSINSIs fit into the entrepreneurial and routinized innovation and learning regimes described by evolutionary economics, drawing on 24 case studies collected in different European countries. It highlights the diverse variations of these regimes, different forms of social entrepreneurship, and different configurations of routinized regime. The article contributes to the shift from visible innovation to dark innovation in innovation studies called for by Martin (2016).
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Forestry
Sunday Berlioz Kakpo, Augustin Kossi Nounangnon Aoudji, Denis Gnanguenon-Guesse, Alain Jaures Gbetoho, Kourouma Koura, Geoffroy Kevin Djotan, Jean Cossi Ganglo
Summary: The study focused on the distribution of African teak in Benin, projecting a significant decrease in suitable habitats for the species due to climate change. Only a portion of suitable habitat remains in a few protected areas.
JOURNAL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH
(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Luc F. M. van Summeren, Anna J. Wieczorek, Geert P. J. Verbong, Gunter J. T. Bombaerts
Summary: This study examines the application of niche hybridization strategies in practice, using the case of Community Power (CP) as an example. CP, a community-owned supply company, combines elements of cooperative and commercial organizations to promote the community energy logic against the traditional energy regime.
ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS
(2023)
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Engineering, Environmental
J. R. McConville, E. Kvarnstrom, M. Ahlstrom, C. B. Niwagaba
Summary: There is increasing pressure to develop innovative decentralized sanitation systems that protect public health and recover resources. This study applies methodology from sustainability transition studies to evaluate the opportunities for niche technologies focusing on nutrient resource recovery to enter the market in Greater Kampala, Uganda. The study characterizes the existing socio-technical regime for on-site sanitation, identifies stress points, and explores possible advantages for the niches.
RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING
(2022)
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Business
Hui Zhang, Huanhuan Xiong, Qian Wang, Yongjie Gu
Summary: This study provides new insights into the effects of enterprise niche on dual innovation performance by showing the moderating role of innovation openness. The study finds that niche width has a significant positive impact on exploitative and exploratory innovation performance, niche overlap has an inverted U-shaped effect on exploitative innovation performance and significantly positively affects exploratory innovation performance. Additionally, innovation openness negatively moderates the impact of niche width on exploitative innovation performance and positively moderates the impact of niche overlap on exploitative innovation performance.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
(2022)