Call for papers
Special Issue on "Repurposing for Innovation: Navigating Technology, Uncertainty, and Sustainability
Dear colleagues
If you have work in progress on the antecedents and outcomes of innovations that result from repurposing ideas, knowledge, and technologies, please consider submitting it to the Special Issue at Industry and Innovation on "Repurposing for Innovation: Navigating Technology, Uncertainty, and Sustainability in the Modern Business Landscape", co-edited by:
· Isabel-Maria Bodas-Freitas, Grenoble Business School, Grenoble, France
· Marvin Hanisch, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
· Yansong Hu, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Warwick, United Kingdom
· Dorota Piaskowska, College of Business, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
· Bastian Rake, School of Business, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland
Submissions will be open from January 1st to January 31st, 2025.
Core themes
The Special Issue aims to deepen our understanding of the sources, processes, conditions, and outcomes of reusing and recombining ideas, knowledge, and technologies. As such, the special issue will focus on four interrelated themes:
Exploring antecedents: The first theme focuses on strategies to transform serendipity from a stroke of luck into a planned activity that can be harnessed as a (re)source, facilitating the organic emergence of repurposing.
Exploring processes: The second theme considers applications of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the discovery and implementation of repurposed innovations.
Exploring contexts: The third theme aims to advance knowledge on how high-uncertainty contexts, such as crises, can facilitate and provide incentives for the use of repurposing, turning challenges into opportunities.
Exploring outcomes: The fourth theme investigates how recombination and reuse, broadly defined, of existing knowledge and technologies can address societal grand challenges.
Empirical approaches
In essence, this special issue aims to unravel the complex dynamics that underlie innovative repurposing across important stages of the innovation journey. We invite quantitative and qualitative empirical submissions studying the topic of "Repurposing for Innovation" in a variety of contexts and from diverse theoretical perspectives, including to organizational-, team-, individual-, and product-level analyses.
Further details
More information about the Special Issue can be found online: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/repurposing-innovation-navigating-technology/