Last weekend, we cooked two dishes from Iran:
“Who are you going to call?” Network activation in creative idea generation and elaboration – an experimental study exploring which kind of ties (strong or weak) are more important for different phases of idea generation and elaboration.
The art of discovering and exploiting unexpected opportunities: The roles of organizational improvisation and serendipity in new venture performance – a straightforward quantitative study on the role of improvisation and serendipity towards performance. It’s very exciting that there’s so much interest on serendipity in the academic literature recently.
Beyond bricolage: Early-stage technology venture resource mobilization in resource-scarce contexts – a great example of a qualitative study that any researcher should aspire to do in the future. The amount of data they collected and the way they analyzed and presented them through graphs is just very admirable.
Distilling and renewing science team search through external engagement – follows a medical technology research team for 5 years to see how they engaged with the external world including clinicians, patients and industry actors. They found three processes including “devising and coordinating external engagement, assimilating external engagement, and distilling external engagement.” Very similar to absorptive capacity but in the context of research groups.
We cooked two dishes from Egypt yesterday. Miriam’s family loved everything (giving it 10/10) but they’re biased for these dishes. Here were the two:
From trash to treasure: A checklist to identify high-potential NPD projects from previously rejected projects – In my opinion, the ultimate value of management research is to provide employees and companies with actionable checklists to guide their decisions. In this research, they do just that, providing a checklist to help identify previous failed projects that are worth revisiting
The impact of public funding on science valorisation: an analysis of the ERC Proof-of-Concept Programme – Being involved in the ATTRACT project, this is an interesting study which explores another proof of concept grant by the ERC. They find that:
“By all measures of valorisation success that we employed – licensing, start-up creation, research contracts, and consulting, as well as access to follow-on funding – projects that had received the grant performed significantly better than those that had not. “
Explaining Ignoring – Working with Information that Nobody Uses – fascinating study on why people ignore data that they themselves produce. They describe rationales for ignoring data including people thinking that it is not their responsibility, people worrying that they may be interfering with others’ business, people uncertain about the data’s usefulness in the current context and people believing that they may be worse off if the current system is disrupted.
Getting the Picture Too Late: Handoffs and the Effectiveness of Idea Implementation in Creative Work – When employees are made to implement an idea without having much input in their prior development, they tend to create less creative final output. Reminds of the not-invented-here syndrome where employees tend to not leverage well technologies that are not developed in-house.
I’ve been attending the Open Innovation in Science conference this week virtually and it has been a blast to be introduced to this wonderful community. I presented our poster on the Science Mesh in the conference:
We made two dishes from the African nation of Gambia.
We cooked two dishes from Bahrain:
The fall of the innovation empire and its possible rise through open science – research output has been maintaining a steady-state progress despite the exponentially increasing cost. Meanwhile, economic growth from innovation has also been decreasing, attributed to the following:
The author recommends open science partnerships as a solution to reinvigorate research impact to the commercial realm.
Attention to Exploration: The Effect of Academic Entrepreneurship
on the Production of Scientific Knowledge – normally, we explore how scientific knowledge impacts academic entrepreneurship. In this study, they study the reverse and explore how entrepreneurship affects academics’ research directions. Through an attention-based perspective, they find that “entrepreneurship prompts a shift of an academic’s search toward new topics, which enables them to produce better and more impactful science.” This seems intuitive since engaging in more activities, leads to more collisions and higher chances of serendipitous interactions.
Fundamental elements in Technology Transfer: an in-depth analysis – lays out all the components that make up technology transfer. It’s a good reference just by the illustrative models that they have compiled from previous publications.
Training across the academy: The impact of R&D funding on graduate students – explores how receiving funding from the US NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship program affect the careers of the awardees. The researchers find that “the award increases degree completion, placement in a post-doctoral or academic research position, research productivity and impact, and network size.” Inspired by Caplan’s book The Case against Education, An interesting follow-up would be trying to understand whether these effects are from signalling, selection effects or from human capital development. I suspect that a large chunk of its benefits come from the cumulative halo effect that awardees receive from winning already a prestigious grant.
We cooked food from our neighboring micronation Andorra. Their cuisine was very much similar to Catalonia’s.
We cooked food from Colombia last weekend:
