Publication Authors: Raffaella Manzini

Technology Leaders and Followers: An Agent-Based Approach
Linda Ponta, Raffaella Manzini, Silvano Cincotti
In this dynamic and full-opportunity world, firms must face challenges in markets and technologies. One of the main assets that firms can use to address these challenges is innovation, and an important element is to define the most appropriate innovation strategy. Inside innovation strategy, fundamental decisions are about selection, acquisition, and timing. The innovation selecting [...]
IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2025: Knowledge Futures: AI, Technology, and the New Business Paradigm
PP: 540-546
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Circular Economy Yes or No? This is the Dilemma. An Agent-Based Approach
Linda Ponta, Andrea Urbinati, Raffaella Manzini
Circular economy has emerged as an industrial approach that aims to overcome the traditional “take-make-dispose” economic model, which is based on the intensive extraction of raw materials and the design of products with a limited lifespan. The circular economy approach consists in a closed system in which products, materials and resources are continuously reused, remanufactured [...]
IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2025: Knowledge Futures: AI, Technology, and the New Business Paradigm
PP: 547-552
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To Make of to Buy Innovation: An Agent-Based Approach
Linda Ponta, Raffaella Manzini, Silvano Cincotti
In this world so dynamic and full of opportunities, firms need to face challenges in markets and technologies. One of the main assets that firms can use to address these challenges is innovation and one important aspect of innovation management is choosing between insourcing (make) or outsourcing (buy) innovation. Not only the historical and dichotomous [...]
IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2024 - Translating Knowledge into Innovation Dynamics
PP: 290-301
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Co-Patenting and Network Structure: Their Impact on Firm Performance
Linda Ponta, Gloria Puliga, Raffaella Manzini, Silvano Cincotti
To stay abreast of the dynamic market and technological environment, firms should improve their innovation and economic performance continuously. To cope with such requirements, companies often adopt an Open Innovation (OI) strategy. Among several possible OI strategies, co-patenting is a tool to develop innovation with more actors. Thus, companies leverage time by time their innovation [...]
IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2022 - Knowledge Drivers for Resilience and Transformation
PP: 856-868
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Sustainability-Oriented Innovation, Open Innovation and Performance: an Agent-Based Approach
Linda Ponta, Gloria Puliga, Raffaella Manzini, Silvano Cincotti
The mounting pressure from governments and investors has imposed companies to think “green”, “sustainable” and be “social compliant”. In this paper, an investigation to understand the joint impact that Sustainable Oriented Innovation (SOI) and Open Innovation (OI) may have on companies’ performance is presented. In particular, the study aims to see if these practices, i.e. [...]
IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2021 - Managing Knowledge in Uncertain Times
PP: 1742-1755
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Knowledge Share among Firms: an Agent-Based Approach
Linda Ponta, Gloria Puliga, Valentina Lazzarotti, Raffaella Manzini, Silvano Cincotti
The main objective of the study is to investigate how firms can improve their performance. In particular, the impact of the creation of knowledge by firms (closed innovation) or the share of knowledge among firms (open innovation) on the firms’ performance is investigated. Both economic and innovation performance are considered. The economic performance is evaluated [...]
IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2020 - Knowledge in Digital Age
PP: 1557-1568
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Open innovation with scientific partners and patenting: the moderating role of the internal context for innovation
Lara Agostini, Lars Bengtsson, Valentina Lazzarotti, Raffaella Manzini, Anna Nosella, Luisa Pellegrini, Ioana Stefan
This paper aims at investigating how the degree of openness, in a depth conception (Laursen and Salter, 2006) and with scientific partners is associated to innovation performance, measured through the number of patent application. Moreover, we provide a detailed and contextual analysis which assigns to a multifaceted setting for innovation a crucial role in shaping [...]
IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2017 - Knowledge Management in the 21st Century: Resilience, Creativity and Co-creation
PP: 644-660
See all publications by each of the following authors: Anna Nosella, Ioana Stefan, Lara Agostini, Lars Bengtsson, Luisa Pellegrini, Raffaella Manzini, Valentina Lazzarotti
Managing open innovation with scientific and business partners: the mediating role of organizational practices and collaborative mindset in fostering ambidexterity
Valentina Lazzarotti, Raffaella Manzini, Anna Nosella, Luisa Pellegrini
Open innovation literature suggests that firms can improve their innovation performance by learning from users, customers, suppliers, universities, research centers. However, the success of such new paradigm is still debatable and literature is searching for its determinants. In particular, the firms’ internal organizational context seems to be crucial to explain the success or failure of [...]
IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2014 - Knowledge and Management Models for Sustainable Growth
PP: 2500-2515
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