IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijeven/v7y2015i3p266-285.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Understanding and breaking innovation lock-in effects

Author

Listed:
  • Markus Spiegel
  • Christian Marxt

Abstract

The ability to innovate is a critical success factor for all technology-based firms, as they want to exploit arising opportunities. Unfortunately there are several phenomena, including lock-in effects, which can compromise a firm's innovation capacity. However, the underlying factors as well as the dynamics leading to the perceived and de facto limitations of innovation capacity are currently not well enough understood. In this paper we aim to contribute to the understanding of the phenomenon by giving an overview of several factors which influence path-dependent processes. In addition, the dynamics of and how to break through a potential lock-in effect are explored from a theoretical point of view using a complex adaptive systems perspective. How often such a lock-in situation occurs and which factors are seen as most impactful are examined with a mixed-methods approach.

Suggested Citation

  • Markus Spiegel & Christian Marxt, 2015. "Understanding and breaking innovation lock-in effects," International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 7(3), pages 266-285.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijeven:v:7:y:2015:i:3:p:266-285
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=71484
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Klaudia Bracio & Marek Szarucki, 2020. "Mixed Methods Utilisation in Innovation Management Research: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Summary," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-27, October.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijeven:v:7:y:2015:i:3:p:266-285. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=123 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.