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Lopez-Vega, H. & Moodysson, J. (2023). Digital Transformation of the Automotive Industry: An Integrating Framework to Analyse Technological Novelty and Breadth. Industry and Innovation, 30(1), 67-102
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2023 (English)In: Industry and Innovation, ISSN 1366-2716, E-ISSN 1469-8390, Vol. 30, no 1, p. 67-102Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Research demonstrates that digital technologies stimulate industrial transformation by enabling new interdependencies with firms outside and across firm and industry boundaries. However, we know little about the degree of novelty and breadth of digital technologies that have the potential to transform industries. Understanding the degree of novelty (spanning from radical to incremental) and breadth (spanning from one sector to multiple sectors) of digital technologies is important for measuring their impact on industrial transformation. Through a topic modelling research approach on autonomous vehicle technology patents from firms operating in Sweden and a confirmatory survey with the inventors of those patents, this paper reveals 26 digital technology topics that are transforming the automotive industry. The digital technology topics are distributed across four ideal-typical technology categories for transformation: augmenting, spanning, transforming, and disrupting. This study illustrates the value of studying digital technologies’ transformative nature using an integrating framework; it reveals that digital technologies in the automotive industry have mainly incremental characteristics but that these characteristics provide necessary preconditions for the few more radical technologies to achieve their potential in transforming the industry.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2023
Keywords
Artificial intelligence, D83, Digital Technologies, Emerging technologies, Industry digitalization, O14, O32, O33, R4, Topic modelling
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-59340 (URN)10.1080/13662716.2022.2151873 (DOI)000906320200001 ()2-s2.0-85145475061 (Scopus ID)HOA;intsam;852233 (Local ID)HOA;intsam;852233 (Archive number)HOA;intsam;852233 (OAI)
Funder
Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, 2016.0014
Available from: 2023-01-09 Created: 2023-01-09 Last updated: 2023-01-19Bibliographically approved
Bergkvist, J.-E., Moodysson, J. & Sandström, C. (2022). Third-Generation Innovation Policy: System Transformation or Reinforcing Business as Usual?. In: Karl Wennberg & Christian Sandström (Ed.), Questioning the Entrepreneurial State: Status-quo, Pitfalls, and the Need for Credible Innovation Policy (pp. 201-217). Cham: Springer
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2022 (English)In: Questioning the Entrepreneurial State: Status-quo, Pitfalls, and the Need for Credible Innovation Policy / [ed] Karl Wennberg & Christian Sandström, Cham: Springer, 2022, p. 201-217Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

There has been a shift in innovation policy in recent years toward more focus on systemic transformation and changed directionality. In this chapter, we describe a collection of challenges that such policies need to address. Based on a review of dominant frameworks regarding socio-technical transitions, we compare these theories with examples of innovation policy in different countries. Systemic transformation across an economy usually requires a process of creative destruction in which new competencies may be required, actors need to be connected in novel ways, and institutions may need to be changed. Our empirical illustrations show that support programs and initiatives across Europe do not always seem to result in such a process, as they include mechanisms favoring large, established firms and universities. These actors have often fine-tuned their activities and capabilities to the existing order, and therefore have few incentives to engage in renewal. As the incumbent actors also control superior financial and relational resources, there is a risk that they captivate innovation policies and thus reinforce established structures rather than contributing to systemic transformation.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cham: Springer, 2022
Series
International Studies in Entrepreneurship, ISSN 1572-1922, E-ISSN 2197-5884 ; 53
Keywords
Innovation policy, Institutions, Regulatory capture, System transformation, Third generation
National Category
Economics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-58070 (URN)10.1007/978-3-030-94273-1_11 (DOI)2-s2.0-85133740366 (Scopus ID)978-3-030-94272-4 (ISBN)978-3-030-94275-5 (ISBN)978-3-030-94273-1 (ISBN)
Available from: 2022-07-27 Created: 2022-07-27 Last updated: 2022-07-27Bibliographically approved
Eriksson, K., Ernkvist, M., Laurell, C., Moodysson, J., Nykvist, R. & Sandström, C. (2019). A revised perspective on innovation policy for renewal of mature economies – Historical evidence from finance and telecommunications in Sweden 1980–1990. Technological forecasting & social change, 147, 152-162
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2019 (English)In: Technological forecasting & social change, ISSN 0040-1625, E-ISSN 1873-5509, Vol. 147, p. 152-162Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

What is the role of innovation policy for accomplishing renewal of mature industries in Western economies? Drawing upon an unusually rich dataset spanning 9752 digitized archival documents, we categorize and code decisions taken by policymakers on several levels while also mapping and quantifying the strategic activities of both entrant firms and incumbent monopolists over a decade. Our data concerns two empirical cases from Sweden during the time period 1980–1990: the financial sector and the telecommunications sector. In both industries, a combination of technological and institutional upheaval came into motion during this time period which in turn fueled the revitalization of the Swedish economy in the subsequent decades. Our findings show that Swedish policymakers in both cases consistently acted in order to promote the emergence of more competition and de novo entrant firms at the expense of established monopolies. The paper quantifies and documents this process while also highlighting several enabling conditions. In conclusion, the results indicate that successful innovation policy in mature economies is largely a matter of strategically dealing with resourceful vested interest groups, alignment of expectations, and removing resistance to industrial renewal. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2019
Keywords
Technological forecasting, Archival documents, Data concerns, Financial sectors, Innovation policies, Interest groups, Policy makers, Strategic activities, Time-periods, Competition
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-45526 (URN)10.1016/j.techfore.2019.07.001 (DOI)000489193700013 ()2-s2.0-85069892849 (Scopus ID)HOA;;1341823 (Local ID)HOA;;1341823 (Archive number)HOA;;1341823 (OAI)
Funder
Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg FoundationThe Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation
Available from: 2019-08-12 Created: 2019-08-12 Last updated: 2021-02-26Bibliographically approved
Grillitsch, M., Hansen, T., Coenen, L., Miörner, J. & Moodysson, J. (2019). Innovation policy for system-wide transformation: The case of Strategic Innovation Programmes (SIPs) in Sweden. Research Policy, 48(4), 1048-1061
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2019 (English)In: Research Policy, ISSN 0048-7333, E-ISSN 1873-7625, Vol. 48, no 4, p. 1048-1061Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The orientation towards grand societal challenges can be seen as a new wave or paradigm for innovation policy. Such policy aims at system-wide transformation and is often referred to as system innovation policy. While insights from transition studies have provided novel and useful rationales for innovation policy targeting system-wide transformation, it remains unclear how to design, implement and evaluate such policies. The contribution of this paper is to translate and concretize the challenges of system innovation policy towards scope for policy action and analysis. Building on insights from transition studies we group the challenges into four domains: directionality, experimentation, demand articulation, and policy coordination and learning. We relate challenges within the four domains to three generic features of innovation systems: interests and capabilities of actors, networks, and institutions. The derived framework is applied in a case study on the strategic innovation programmes, a recent policy initiative by Vinnova, Sweden's Innovation Agency, targeting system innovation. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2019
Keywords
Innovation policy, Innovation systems, Structural change, System innovation, Transformation challengesTransitions
National Category
Public Administration Studies Economics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-41802 (URN)10.1016/j.respol.2018.10.004 (DOI)000460714300016 ()2-s2.0-85054832425 (Scopus ID)PPembargo36;intsam;1254785 (Local ID)PPembargo36;intsam;1254785 (Archive number)PPembargo36;intsam;1254785 (OAI)
Available from: 2018-10-10 Created: 2018-10-10 Last updated: 2021-02-26Bibliographically approved
Miörner, J., Trippl, M., Zukauskaite, E. & Moodysson, J. (2018). Creating institutional preconditions for knowledge flows in cross-border regions. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 36(2), 201-218
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Creating institutional preconditions for knowledge flows in cross-border regions
2018 (English)In: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, ISSN 2399-6544, E-ISSN 2399-6552, Vol. 36, no 2, p. 201-218Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In recent years, we have witnessed an intensive scholarly discussion about the limitations of traditional inward looking regional innovation strategies. New policy approaches put more emphasis on promoting the external connectedness of regions. However, the institutional preconditions for collaboration across borders have received little attention so far. The aim of this paper is to investigate both conceptually and empirically how policy network organizations can target the institutional underpinnings and challenges of cross-border integration processes and knowledge flows. The empirical part of the paper consists of an analysis of activities performed by four cross-border policy network organizations in the Öresund region (made up of Zealand in Denmark and Scania in Sweden) and how they relate to the creation of institutional preconditions and the removal of institutional barriers. Our findings suggest that cross-border policy network organizations have limited power to change or facilitate the adaptation of formal institutions directly. They mainly rely on mobilizing actors at other territorial levels for improving the formal institutional conditions for knowledge flows. Informal institutions, on the other hand, can be targeted by an array of different tools available to policy network organizations. We conclude that institutional preconditions in cross-border regions are influenced by collective activities of multiple actors on different territorial levels, and that regional actors mainly adapt to the existing institutional framework rather than change it. For innovation policy, this implies that possibilities for institutional change and adaptation need to be considered in regional innovation policy strategies.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2018
Keywords
Cross-border region, innovation policy, institutions, knowledge flows
National Category
Public Administration Studies Economics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-35400 (URN)10.1177/2399654417704664 (DOI)000429797300002 ()2-s2.0-85042560684 (Scopus ID);intsam;1089989 (Local ID);intsam;1089989 (Archive number);intsam;1089989 (OAI)
Funder
EU, FP7, Seventh Framework Programme
Available from: 2017-04-21 Created: 2017-04-21 Last updated: 2021-03-01Bibliographically approved
Moodysson, J. & Sack, L. (2018). Innovation under a protected label of origin: Institutional change in Cognac. In: J. Glückler, R. Suddaby & R. Lenz (Ed.), Knowledge and institutions: (pp. 135-155). Cham: Springer
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2018 (English)In: Knowledge and institutions / [ed] J. Glückler, R. Suddaby & R. Lenz, Cham: Springer, 2018, p. 135-155Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In this study the authors analyze a protected label of origin cluster in France with a homogeneous and explicit institutional framework. The cluster has given birth to both incremental and radical changes in recent decades. By assessing these change processes, the authors disentangle different types of institutional change that have been shaped by preconditions in the cluster—and that in turn shape the cluster on an aggregate level. The study mainly focuses on inefficiencies that emerge over time in the given institutional framework, triggering different types of change. The study’s findings suggest that incremental change processes originate primarily in developments in the regulative and normative dimension of institutions within the cluster, whereas radical change processes require a wider set of preconditions.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cham: Springer, 2018
Series
Knowledge and Space, ISSN 1877-9220 ; 13
Keywords
Institutions; innovation; change; renewal; cluster; cognac; regulation
National Category
Public Administration Studies Economics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-41803 (URN)10.1007/978-3-319-75328-7_7 (DOI)000446022100007 ()978-3-319-75327-0 (ISBN)978-3-319-75328-7 (ISBN)
Available from: 2018-10-10 Created: 2018-10-10 Last updated: 2018-12-17Bibliographically approved
Manniche, J., Moodysson, J. & Testa, S. (2017). Combinatorial knowledge bases: An integrative and dynamic approach to innovation studies. Economic Geography, 93(5), 480-499
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Combinatorial knowledge bases: An integrative and dynamic approach to innovation studies
2017 (English)In: Economic Geography, ISSN 0013-0095, E-ISSN 1944-8287, Vol. 93, no 5, p. 480-499Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The aims of this article are (1) to critically review the theoretical arguments and contribution of the knowledge base approach to economic geography and innovation studies, and the value added and limitations of applying it in empirical studies as reported about in the extant literatures; (2) to propose a new interpretation of the knowledge base approach by integrating it into a larger analytical framework for innovation studies that integrates individual, organizational, and contextual aspects, and to discuss the possible advances that come from using it in economic geography studies. The article dismisses the widespread taxonomical application of knowledge base conceptualizations for classification of firms, industries, and economies into fixed categories based on their dominant knowledge base characteristics. Rather it argues that the knowledge base characteristics vary not only between firms and industries but also over time and through innovation trajectories in firms and industries. The new interpretation implies that the knowledge base characteristics are defined not only by individual-level modes and rationales for knowledge creation and application and by their related spatial implications but also by managerial–organizational aspects with regard to coordination and exploitation of such knowledge dynamics. The integration of literatures from different disciplinary strands, now unified under the umbrella of a reinterpreted knowledge base approach, advances the explanatory value of the knowledge base approach in economic geography and innovation studies as well as related disciplines.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2017
Keywords
innovation, knowledge base, integrative approach
National Category
Economic Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-31281 (URN)10.1080/00130095.2016.1205948 (DOI)000418681300004 ()2-s2.0-84981485807 (Scopus ID);intsam;953739 (Local ID);intsam;953739 (Archive number);intsam;953739 (OAI)
Available from: 2016-08-18 Created: 2016-08-18 Last updated: 2021-03-03Bibliographically approved
Moodysson, J., Trippl, M. & Zukauskaite, E. (2017). Policy learning and smart specialization: Balancing policy change and continuity for new regional industrial paths. Science and Public Policy, 44(3), 382-391
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Policy learning and smart specialization: Balancing policy change and continuity for new regional industrial paths
2017 (English)In: Science and Public Policy, ISSN 0302-3427, E-ISSN 1471-5430, Vol. 44, no 3, p. 382-391Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper seeks to explain what policy approaches and policy measures are best suited for promoting new regional industrial path development and what needs and possibilities there are for such policy to change and adapt to new conditions in order to remain efficient. The paper departs from the notion of Smart Specialization and discusses how regional strategies that are inspired by this approach influence path renewal and new path creation and how they are related to and aligned with policy strategies implemented at other scales (local, regional, national, supranational). Our main argument is that new regional industrial growth paths require both continuity and change within the support structure of the innovation system. Unless smart specialization strategies are able to combine such adaptation and continuity, they fail to promote path renewal and new path creation. Our arguments are illustrated with empirical findings from the regional innovation system of Scania, South Sweden.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford University Press, 2017
Keywords
Smart specialization, innovation policy, policy learning, new regional industrial path development
National Category
Public Administration Studies Economics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-31283 (URN)10.1093/scipol/scw071 (DOI)000404516200007 ()2-s2.0-85026815739 (Scopus ID);intsam;953767 (Local ID);intsam;953767 (Archive number);intsam;953767 (OAI)
Funder
EU, FP7, Seventh Framework Programme
Available from: 2016-08-18 Created: 2016-08-18 Last updated: 2021-03-03Bibliographically approved
Moodysson, J. & Sack, L. (2016). Institutional stability and industry renewal: Diverging trajectories in the Cognac beverage cluster. Industry and Innovation, 23(5), 448-464
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Institutional stability and industry renewal: Diverging trajectories in the Cognac beverage cluster
2016 (English)In: Industry and Innovation, ISSN 1366-2716, E-ISSN 1469-8390, Vol. 23, no 5, p. 448-464Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Adding to approaches highlighting network dynamics as a basis for regional economic development, increased attention is paid to institutions as contextual factors contributing to explaining how and why economies change. Research has shown that firms tend to react differently to the same institutional configurations, with the main explanatory factors being their sectoral backgrounds and intra-firm characteristics. This study adds to these insights by examining a regional economy in France, that of Cognac, in which 300 firms are operating under homogeneous institutional preconditions. Despite these similarities, we identify different development trajectories from the 1990s onwards. Our observations illustrate how firms’ responses to external change diverge and bring them on different trajectories due to different positions in the industry hierarchy and different experiences and capabilities among individuals within firms. The study contributes to the better understanding of mechanisms of path dependence, which have gained wide recognition in the literature in the recent decades.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2016
Keywords
Innovation, institutions, regional development, stability, change
National Category
Economics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-33088 (URN)10.1080/13662716.2016.1167014 (DOI)000377806600004 ()2-s2.0-84963997697 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2016-11-17 Created: 2016-11-17 Last updated: 2017-11-29Bibliographically approved
Zukauskaite, E. & Moodysson, J. (2016). Multiple paths of development: knowledge bases and institutional characteristics of the Swedish food sector. European Planning Studies, 24(3), 589-606
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Multiple paths of development: knowledge bases and institutional characteristics of the Swedish food sector
2016 (English)In: European Planning Studies, ISSN 0965-4313, E-ISSN 1469-5944, Vol. 24, no 3, p. 589-606Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

The aim of this paper is to explore the relation between the critical knowledge base of firms and how firms respond to incentives embedded in the institutional framework surrounding them. The analysis gives us a better understanding of the complex development of the food sector in Southern Sweden in the past decades. Theoretically, the paper combines concepts of path dependency and knowledge bases, and applies this framework to a set of development trajectories of firms in the Scanian food sector. Three development paths are identifiedpath extension, path renewal and new path creation. Findings illustrate that these are rooted in different knowledge base combinations of firms, which make them respond differently to similar place- and sector-specific institutional conditions.

Keywords
Food sector, innovation, Sweden, institutions, knowledge base
National Category
Economics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-31389 (URN)10.1080/09654313.2015.1092502 (DOI)000368552900009 ()2-s2.0-84955387607 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2016-08-23 Created: 2016-08-19 Last updated: 2017-11-28Bibliographically approved
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