Disruptive Innovation Ecosystems:Reconceptualising Innovation Ecosystems

Badziili Nthubu, Daniel Richards, Leon Cruickshank

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Abstract

Ecosystems are valuable in creating diverse and collaborative environments that enable businesses to innovate in ways that are much more difficult without them. However, business managers can be reluctant to participate in building ecosystems mainly due to lack of understanding. Specifically, businesses can be uncomfortable sharing resources, data, intellectual property and secrets with other ecosystem actors. Drawing on inter-disciplinary perspectives from literature, we use a ‘design focused ecosystem thinking' to propose a new type of Disruptive Innovation Ecosystem (DIE). Firstly, we discuss the significance of adopting innovation ecosystems to create shared value. Secondly, we conceptualize a new type of DIE and propose steps on how DIEs can be created and fostered. Finally, we discuss DIE roles in relation to Amazon, Apple, Uber, and Siemens ecosystem cases. This paper offers a new type of DIE design process which may be leveraged by businesses towards building sustainable innovation ecosystems.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 2019
EventAcademy for Design Innovation Management Conference - Loughborough University London, London, United Kingdom
Duration: Jun 19 2019Jun 21 2019

Conference

ConferenceAcademy for Design Innovation Management Conference
Abbreviated titleADIM
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period6/19/196/21/19

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