Harnessing exaptation and ecosystem strategy for accelerated innovation: lessons from the VentilatorChallengeUK
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Publication Date
2022-05Journal Title
California Management Review
ISSN
0008-1256
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SAGE Publications
Language
en
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Article
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Liu, W., Beltagui, A., Ye, S., & Williamson, P. (2022). Harnessing exaptation and ecosystem strategy for accelerated innovation: lessons from the VentilatorChallengeUK. California Management Review https://doi.org/10.1177/00081256211056651
Abstract
The COVID-19 crisis has underlined the need for accelerated innovation to rapidly help business solve social problems. These problems require access to capabilities and knowledge that no single organization or existing supply chain possesses. Drawing on the experience of the open innovation and rapid-scale-up achieved by the VentilatorChallengeUK to address a shortage of ventilators required by patients seriously ill with COVID-19, this article develops a framework for accelerated innovation and delivery that crosses traditional industry boundaries. It offers a series of important lessons for how open innovation, exaptation, and ecosystem strategies—backed by a set of enabling initiatives—can be used to solve multi-faceted social and business problems at speed.
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00081256211056651
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/331108
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