Understanding innovative potential (IP) in an ICT Context

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dc.contributor.author	Sudhanshu, Rai
dc.date.accessioned	2011-01-05
dc.date.accessioned	2011-02-16T14:41:54Z
dc.date.available	2011-02-16T14:41:54Z
dc.date.issued	2011-02-16
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8257
dc.description.abstract	In this paper I discuss innovative potential at a firm level using information system literature and broadening my review to R&D literature as well. This review enables me to develop a theoretical frame of what researchers have indicated to be innovative potential or capacity at the firm level. While the information system literature does refer to a firms innovative potential as a dynamic phenomena, thus the inception of this phenomena is rooted through the R&D literature, which is helpful but in itself has a weakness. In relying on the R&D perspective to explain innovative potential of a firm information system researchers have stuck to the static notion of innovation while talking about innovative potential (IP) as a dynamic process. This paper redresses that imbalance as it tries to formulate a theory of IP that in my opinion better explains IT innovation at the firm level from a dynamic perspective in its conception, operation and instantiation. I conclude this paper with insights on what I call the dynamic IP threshold arguing that being dynamic cannot be seen as a point in time but a threshold existing over time. I then discuss some implications. I suggest that firms need to consider IP as a long term investment not only in human capital but in the way the human capital is allowed to engage with new ideas. I suggest IP can be build using institutional logics that enable openness and collegiality.	en_US
dc.format.extent	9	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working paper;4
dc.subject.other	Institutional logics	en_US
dc.subject.other	ICT Innovation	en_US
dc.subject.other	Emerging economies	en_US
dc.subject.other	R&D	en_US
dc.subject.other	Innovative Potential	en_US
dc.title	Understanding innovative potential (IP) in an ICT Context	en_US
dc.type	wp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt11feb16 lbjl	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Institut for Informatik	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	INF	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Department of Informatics	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	INF	en_US
dc.idnumber	x656703449	en_US
dc.publisher.city	Frederiksberg	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2010	en_US
dc.title.subtitle	Insights from the ICT industry in India	en_US