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Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies

Carliss Y. Baldwin, Marcel Bogers, Rahul Kapoor, Joel West · 2024 · Research Policy

Summary. This paper reviews how innovation research has shifted toward understanding innovation as embedded in ecosystems of interconnected actors—firms, organizations, and individuals—that create value together through modular interfaces. The authors synthesize nine articles examining how ecosystem actors coordinate, create joint value, and capture returns, while proposing future research directions that combine ecosystem perspectives with other innovation frameworks and develop new methodologies for studying ecosystem dynamics.

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Baldwin, C. Y., Bogers, M., Kapoor, R., & West, J.. (2024). Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies. Research Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2023.104949

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DOI
10.1016/j.respol.2023.104949
Countries
United States, Netherlands, Denmark
Regions
North America, Europe
Categories
innovation-theory, innovation-networks, general-innovation
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2026-04-28