Periodic Reporting for period 2 - FINDER (Fostering Innovation Networks in a Digital Era)
Período documentado: 2020-11-01 hasta 2023-04-30
FINDER sets out to Foster Innovation Networks in a Digital Era in a European Industrial Doctorate partnership of 4 years between Radboud University and Atos to prepare a new generation of business and entrepreneurship researchers contributing to the development of innovative ecosystems in a digital era, providing sophisticated understanding of the context in which business is done, the effect of technology in driving these collaborative processes and of the stakeholders involved and prepared students to drive change at the vanguard of business and technology by challenging them to consider multiple perspectives and to create innovative solutions to problems in such a way that they are not only profitable to business but also relevant and responsible towards society at large. This project has received funding from the EU’s Horizon 2020 research & innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 813095.
Track 1’s research on collaborative innovation management addresses gaps in organizational sciences literature concerning the sociopolitical forces behind technological innovation as it occurs between firms and other firms, between firms and regulators, and between firms and society. There are no clear indications that businesses engaged in high-tech ecosystems will divert away from collaborative innovation approaches, which makes this research and the tools it produces timely and useful in elucidating the challenges that practitioners presently face and will face in the future.
Track 3’s research focuses on the characteristics of alternative business models in digital ecosystems, in particular FinTechs. It expands knowledge on how companies can sustainably adapt to structural changes of digital transformation. As the world is rocked by economic, pathologic, and climate-related disasters. It provides understanding of how companies survive and adapt to major turbulence - crucial for strategic management scholarship’s understanding, rephrased: how does uncertainty in times of crisis trigger organizational transformation.
Track 4’s deals with the social forces at play in interfirm decision-making. The role of positional icons such as CEOs is significant in events e.g. mergers and acquisitions. This research uses novel methods to examine the signals that CEOs advertently and inadvertently cast when announcing their M&A decisions, broadening managerial sciences’ scope on applicability of investigative machine learning.
Track 5’s focus on venture capital (VC) as a fuel for the entrepreneurship of technological innovation provides a different lens on the social aspect of interorganizational relationships. Quantitative research methods allowed this track to investigate how VCs’ reputation interplays with their funding targets’ performance. Practical applications will largely be for the parties engaged in this dialogue, but as investing overall becomes more democratized, insights therefrom become more widely applicable as they age.
Track 1’s research on collaborative innovation management addresses gaps in organizational sciences literature concerning the sociopolitical forces behind technological innovation as it occurs between firms and other firms, between firms and regulators, and between firms and society. There are no clear indications that businesses engaged in high-tech ecosystems will divert away from collaborative innovation approaches, which makes this research and the tools it produces timely and useful in elucidating the challenges that practitioners presently face and will face in the future.
Track 3’s research focuses on the characteristics of alternative business models in digital ecosystems, in particular FinTechs. It expands knowledge on how companies can sustainably adapt to structural changes of digital transformation. As the world is rocked by economic, pathologic, and climate-related disasters. It provides understanding of how companies survive and adapt to major turbulence - crucial for strategic management scholarship’s understanding, rephrased: how does uncertainty in times of crisis trigger organizational transformation.
Track 4’s deals with the social forces at play in interfirm decision-making. The role of positional icons such as CEOs is significant in events e.g. mergers and acquisitions. This research uses novel methods to examine the signals that CEOs advertently and inadvertently cast when announcing their M&A decisions, broadening managerial sciences’ scope on applicability of investigative machine learning.
Track 5’s focus on venture capital (VC) as a fuel for the entrepreneurship of technological innovation provides a different lens on the social aspect of interorganizational relationships. Quantitative research methods allowed this track to investigate how VCs’ reputation interplays with their funding targets’ performance. Practical applications will largely be for the parties engaged in this dialogue, but as investing overall becomes more democratized, insights therefrom become more widely applicable as they age.
During the course of the FINDER Project various boards were fully operational to monitor and support the projects progress. 4 ESRs embarked and their research proposals have been accepted by the Radboud Scientific Advisory Committee. Secondments have all been completed at one of Atos' major European business hubs.
The ESRs participated in various doctoral training aimed at developing their (research) skills and obtained ECT’s to continue their PhD trajectory. All ESRs partook in (the organizing of) the various FINDER events: the Research Excellence Workshop, Strategic Management Society Berkeley PDW, Start-up Weekend, FINDER symposium Digital Entrepreneurship in the financial sector, FINDER symposium Inclusive Digital Innovation in financial services and the FINDER Final Conference. Additionally, two ESRs submitted a teaching case to the SAGE Business Case repository which has been published. Also, a case study co-authored by an ESR on TechQuartier (partner organization), entitled “Start-Up collaboration to hedge investment risk” has been published as a book chapter.
In the course of the research methodologically, outputs have come to fruition resulting in manuscript submissions and acceptances in various conferences, e.g. European Group for Organization, Studies Colloquia, Academy of Management Annual Conference, Strategic Management Society special conferences and European Academy of Management Annual Conference.
Details also on: www.thefinderproject.eu
The ESRs participated in various doctoral training aimed at developing their (research) skills and obtained ECT’s to continue their PhD trajectory. All ESRs partook in (the organizing of) the various FINDER events: the Research Excellence Workshop, Strategic Management Society Berkeley PDW, Start-up Weekend, FINDER symposium Digital Entrepreneurship in the financial sector, FINDER symposium Inclusive Digital Innovation in financial services and the FINDER Final Conference. Additionally, two ESRs submitted a teaching case to the SAGE Business Case repository which has been published. Also, a case study co-authored by an ESR on TechQuartier (partner organization), entitled “Start-Up collaboration to hedge investment risk” has been published as a book chapter.
In the course of the research methodologically, outputs have come to fruition resulting in manuscript submissions and acceptances in various conferences, e.g. European Group for Organization, Studies Colloquia, Academy of Management Annual Conference, Strategic Management Society special conferences and European Academy of Management Annual Conference.
Details also on: www.thefinderproject.eu
The FINDER research scope spans industries and job functions, candidates synthesized complex information and approached problems in a manner that can be transferred to both academics and practitioners. FINDER’s curriculum prepared students to drive change at the vanguard of business and technology by challenging them to consider multiple perspectives and to create innovative solutions to problems in such a way that they are not only profitable to business but also relevant and responsible towards society at large.
FINDER accommodated 4 high caliber PhD positions, facilitating first class PhD-training, and first class in-company training at the crossroads of Fintech academia and business. They investigated the innovative collaborative arrangement amongst organizations –grassroots, incumbents and the wider society– as they inclusively explored digital technology for new product or market development.
Track 1 continued ethnographic research provides insights that non-academics have commented on as important to the field, with a closeness to data not often seen in this discipline. The material outcomes of this includes i.a. published and future journal and conference publications.
Track 3 provides understanding how companies survive and adapt to major turbulence. Crucial for strategic management scholarship’s understanding as it focuses on the characteristics of alternative business models in digital ecosystems;FinTechs. The material outcomes of this includes i.a. journal and conference publications.
Track 4, particular to the employed methodology, while amassing a dataset of CEO M&A announcements, provides a baseline for further analysis for published and future academic and white paper submissions.
Track 5 provides a different lens on the social aspect of interorganizational relationships re how the VCs’ reputation interplays with their funding targets’ performance. The material outcomes of this will continue and includes a.i. published and future journal + conference publications.
The FINDER eBook has been co-created by the ESRs in collaboration with their academic and industrial supervisors. Breaking new grounds on research on collaborative Fintech at large, this book provides guidelines and best practices that emerged these past years, all centered around the ambition to Foster Innovation Networks in a Digital Era. It combines scholarly stringency with practical relevance.
The Finder initiative has proven to be a great way to add an academic research perspective to Atos’ existing Fintech Engagement Program, allowing a scientific perspective on 5 Fintech research tracks. This thought leadership has allowed for a different approach and positioning in the market and leads to new ways to engage their customers, their Fintech eco-system and team up concretely with four associated world top 150 universities: Radboud University, Vrije University Amsterdam, University of Groningen, Warwick and KU Leuven.
FINDER accommodated 4 high caliber PhD positions, facilitating first class PhD-training, and first class in-company training at the crossroads of Fintech academia and business. They investigated the innovative collaborative arrangement amongst organizations –grassroots, incumbents and the wider society– as they inclusively explored digital technology for new product or market development.
Track 1 continued ethnographic research provides insights that non-academics have commented on as important to the field, with a closeness to data not often seen in this discipline. The material outcomes of this includes i.a. published and future journal and conference publications.
Track 3 provides understanding how companies survive and adapt to major turbulence. Crucial for strategic management scholarship’s understanding as it focuses on the characteristics of alternative business models in digital ecosystems;FinTechs. The material outcomes of this includes i.a. journal and conference publications.
Track 4, particular to the employed methodology, while amassing a dataset of CEO M&A announcements, provides a baseline for further analysis for published and future academic and white paper submissions.
Track 5 provides a different lens on the social aspect of interorganizational relationships re how the VCs’ reputation interplays with their funding targets’ performance. The material outcomes of this will continue and includes a.i. published and future journal + conference publications.
The FINDER eBook has been co-created by the ESRs in collaboration with their academic and industrial supervisors. Breaking new grounds on research on collaborative Fintech at large, this book provides guidelines and best practices that emerged these past years, all centered around the ambition to Foster Innovation Networks in a Digital Era. It combines scholarly stringency with practical relevance.
The Finder initiative has proven to be a great way to add an academic research perspective to Atos’ existing Fintech Engagement Program, allowing a scientific perspective on 5 Fintech research tracks. This thought leadership has allowed for a different approach and positioning in the market and leads to new ways to engage their customers, their Fintech eco-system and team up concretely with four associated world top 150 universities: Radboud University, Vrije University Amsterdam, University of Groningen, Warwick and KU Leuven.