Innovation ecosystems are faced with high expectations: Not only are they intended to enable companies to keep pace with new innovation dynamics, but are also seen as key for bringing together stakeholders from science, industry, politics and society to jointly develop solutions in light of today's grand challenges. But how can practitioners develop and strategically design these collaborative endeavors? While the ecosystem concept has been extensively researched over the last years, scientifically-rooted, practitioner-oriented tools enabling the strategic design of such ecosystems remain scarce. Applying a design-science research approach incorporating various methods, such as a scoping review of the literature, a comparative analysis of existing tools or a focus group discussion with practitioners, this paper develops the ‘innovation ecosystem clock model’. Based on the different phases of the underlying co-innovation process, the model is the first to scrutinize the different dimensions of ecosystem strategy along the ecosystem lifecycle. In doing so, the tool developed enables practitioners to analyze and discuss strategic design choices related to key activities, actors, transfer formats, value creation and capture mechanisms as well as governance aspects.

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创新生态系统设计的生命周期视角简介：创新生态系统时钟模型


创新生态系统面临着很高的期望：它们不仅旨在使公司能够跟上新的创新动态，而且还被视为将科学、工业、政治和社会的利益相关者聚集在一起，共同开发解决方案以应对当今重大挑战的关键。但是，从业者如何开发和战略性地设计这些协作努力呢？虽然生态系统概念在过去几年中得到了广泛的研究，但能够实现此类生态系统的战略设计的基于科学的、面向实践者的工具仍然稀缺。本文应用结合了各种方法的设计-科学研究方法，例如对文献进行范围审查、对现有工具的比较分析或与从业者进行焦点小组讨论，开发了 “创新生态系统时钟模型”。基于底层协同创新过程的不同阶段，该模型首次审视了生态系统生命周期中生态系统战略的不同维度。在此过程中，开发的工具使从业者能够分析和讨论与关键活动、参与者、转移格式、价值创造和捕获机制以及治理方面相关的战略设计选择。