Public Funding in Collective Innovations for Public–private Activities

Boriana Rukanova, Helle Zinner Henriksen, Frank Heijmann, Siti Arna Arifah Arman, Yao-Hua Tan

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Abstract

Whereas in market-driven situations the private parties have an interest in driving innovations towards implementation, in the case of public concerns, it is often the public concern that initiates the innovation process. The issue for the public funding agencies is then to stimulate idea generation and the process towards implementation and impact. However, these innovation processes are complex, as they involve a multiplicity of public and private actors with different and sometimes conflicting concerns. Thus, the benefits and business cases are not immediately clear and this makes it hard to scale beyond the proof of concept. In this paper we examine and derive lessons learned based on a longitudinal case study of a series four EU-funded projects (ITAIDE, INTEGRITY, CASSANDRA and CORE) in the international trade domain that aimed to develop digital trade infrastructure solutions (data pipelines) to address security and trade facilitation challenges. For our case analysis, we adapt and extend Bryson et al.’s framework [1] on cross-sector collaborations. We show how each of these projects covered one part of the public–private innovation trajectory, moving the innovation from the Initial R&D stage, to the Showcasing and dissemination stage to attract critical mass, towards a Turning point stage when the business cases for further upscaling become visible. We identify continuities (i.e. continuity of network & vision, funding and process) as well as a number of alignments as important factors that drive collective innovation processes towards implementation and impact. Further research is needed to establish to what extent these findings are applicable in other contexts.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationElectronic Government - 17th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2018, Proceedings : Proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2018
EditorsPeter Parycek, Olivier Glassey, Marijn Janssen, Hans Jochen Scholl, Efthimios Tambouris, Evangelos Kalampokis, Shefali Virkar
Number of pages12
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2018
Pages132-143
ISBN (Print)9783319986890
ISBN (Electronic)9783319986906
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
EventThe 17th IFIP WG 8.5 Electronic Government Conference. EGOV 2018 - Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria
Duration: 3 Sept 20185 Sept 2018
Conference number: 17
http://depts.washington.edu/egcdep18/#/

Conference

ConferenceThe 17th IFIP WG 8.5 Electronic Government Conference. EGOV 2018
Number17
LocationDanube University Krems
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityKrems
Period03/09/201805/09/2018
OtherEGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2018 Conference
Internet address
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume11020
ISSN0302-9743

Keywords

  • Innovation
  • Public concern
  • Public funding
  • International trade

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