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- Title
Harnessing Exaptation and Ecosystem Strategy for Accelerated Innovation: Lessons From The VentilatorChallengeUK.
- Authors
Liu, Wei; Beltagui, Ahmad; Ye, Songhe; Williamson, Peter
- 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.
- Subjects
COVID-19 pandemic; OPEN innovation; SOCIAL problems; PROBLEM solving; SUPPLY chain management; VENTILATORCHALLENGEUK (Company); MECHANICAL ventilators; INVENTORY shortages
- Publication
California Management Review, 2022, Vol 64, Issue 3, p78
- ISSN
0008-1256
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00081256211056651