Ebersberger Bernd, Kuckertz Andreas
University of Hohenheim, Innovation Management Research Group, Schloss Osthof-Nord, 70593 Stuttgart, Germany.
University of Hohenheim, Entrepreneurship Research Group, Wollgrasweg 49, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany.
J Bus Res. 2021 Jan;124:126-135. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.11.051. Epub 2020 Dec 7.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a changing environment posing many challenges that call for innovative solutions, leading to a changing innovation landscape. We explore particular organizational actors' innovation response time by analyzing data from a commercial innovation database. Arguing that innovation response time mostly depends on how organizations perceive time, we expect innovative start-ups to be the quickest and universities to be the slowest in responding to the crisis. Controlling for a set of external drivers of structural change, we find support for our hypothesis about start-ups. Contrary to our expectations, universities do not significantly differ in their innovation response time compared with incumbents. To underpin the robustness of our findings, we provide a specification curve analysis. Our results indicate the significance of start-up-corporate collaboration and open innovation, especially in the aftermath of the crisis.
新冠疫情导致环境不断变化，带来了诸多挑战，需要创新解决方案，进而导致创新格局不断变化。我们通过分析一个商业创新数据库的数据，探究特定组织行为者的创新响应时间。我们认为创新响应时间主要取决于组织如何感知时间，预计创新型初创企业对危机的响应最快，而大学的响应最慢。在控制了一系列结构变革的外部驱动因素后，我们的假设得到了关于初创企业的支持。与我们的预期相反，与现有企业相比，大学在创新响应时间上没有显著差异。为了巩固我们研究结果的稳健性，我们进行了规范曲线分析。我们的结果表明了初创企业与企业合作以及开放式创新的重要性，尤其是在危机之后。
