Models of Innovation in Global ICT Firms: The Emerging Global Innovation Ecosystems

Martin Fransman ()
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Martin Fransman: University of Edinburgh

No JRC90726, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: This report focuses on the changing models of innovation adopted by some of the largest and most innovative global ICT companies in the world, including Apple, BT, Google, Microsoft, Skype, Telefonica and Vodafone. One of the main contributions of this report is to demonstrate that, in order to understand these innovation models, it is necessary at the same time to understand the dynamics of innovation at sector level. Beginning with an analysis of the innovation process in the ICT ecosystem, the author drills down into the company global innovation ecosystems that have been created by these global companies. In addition, he explores some of the implications that proliferating company global innovation ecosystems have for government policy. He concludes that whilst innovation is changing the world, changing global circumstances are in turn transforming the innovation model in companies, both large and small, around the world.

Keywords: innovation; ICT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L1 L22 L63 L86 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54 pages
Date: 2014-09
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