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Item Coping with uncertainty - Exploration, exploitation, and collaboration in R&D(2013-01-01) Kuittinen, Hanna; Puumalainen, Kaisu; Jantunen, Ari; Kyläheiko, Kalevi; Pätäri, Satu; Policies for Innovation and TechnologyThis paper studies the formation of and the motives for research and development (R&D) activities. In it, we explore the linkages between explorative and exploitative R&D activities and the different types of governance structures firms use when organising R&D. Additionally, we analyse the relationship between different kinds of firm-external uncertainties arising from the operating environments and the organisation of R&D activities. Finally, we scrutinise the impact of the collaboration mode on a firm's innovative performance, and stress the important role of knowledge sharing as a generator of success in innovative performance. We employ survey data from our sample of 299 Finnish companies. The findings indicate that a firm's choice of R&D governance structure is partly affected by the selection of an explorative or exploitative strategy, which in turn depends on the degree of firm-internal uncertainty. External dynamism is an additional factor affecting the choice of the preferred governance structure.Item Innovación en las regiones europeas. Una alternativa metodológica y actualizada del RIS(2009-09) Calderero-Gutiérrez, Alberto; Fernández-Macho, Javier; Kuittinen, Hanna; Centros PRE-FUSION TECNALIA - (FORMER)Innovation has become a crucial factor for the development and survival of the manufacturing sector of European regions. The lower production costs in manufacturing of emerging countries force European companies to adopt strategies of technological specialization. Research and development are the two basic pillars of innovation, which obtain support from two basic resources: human capital and technology. The European Commission gives a special attention to the phenomenon of regional innovation, launching different initiatives for its evaluation, measurement and analysis. One initiative is the European Regional Innovation Scoreboard, RIS, which provides a support instrument for the design, formulation and evaluation of innovation policies. Our research gives continuity to the process of analysis and monitoring of regional innovation in Europe by contributing to a methodological alternative that updates and improves the RIS methodology, reducing considerably its arbitrariness and increasing its transparency. More specifically, we propose the incorporation of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as an objective method of weighting the primary indicators when constructing the synthetic index of regional innovation. The present work applies the proposed methodology to a set of EUregions, including statistically updated information, and then analyzes the European regional ranking. It concludes with the main results and findings.Item A tale of two innovation cultures: Bridging the gap between makers and manufacturers: Bridging the gap between makers and manufacturers(2020-11) Tabarés, Raúl; Kuittinen, Hanna; Tecnalia Research & Innovation; BIGDATA; Policies for Innovation and TechnologyMaker communities have been widely popularized during the last decade throughout the development of numerous shared spaces in the form of makerspaces, fab labs and hackerspaces across the globe. This phenomenon has drawn the attention of many stakeholders interested in establishing bridges with them for exploring their innovation potential. However, synergies between producer innovation and free innovation paradigms remain quite uncertain. To meet this gap, the authors provide an analysis of the 22 collaborative innovations between makers and manufacturers funded by the OPENMAKER project as well as relevant empirical evidence gathered throughout 126 semi-structured interviews. The findings of this contribution stress the misalignment of makers and manufacturers in society as well as their different values and motivations around innovation, and the lack of shared spaces. At the same time, the paper highlights the benefits that the interaction between these two communities could have for meeting societal challenges, increasing social welfare and speeding up innovation processes if proper incentives and conditions are orchestrated. In this sense, we propose a set of considerations and implications based on the empirical material gathered, for providing future directions for innovation policies and research agendas.Item The use of policy formulation tools in the venue of policy appraisal: Patterns and underlying motivations(Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2015-01-01) Turnpenny, John R.; Jordan, Andrew J.; Adelle, Camilla; Bartke, Stephan; Bournaris, Thomas; Kautto, Petrus; Kuittinen, Hanna; Larsen, Lars Ege; Moulogianni, Christina; Saarela, Sanna Riikka; Weiland, Sabine; Policies for Innovation and Technology