Technological exaptation and crisis management: Evidence from COVID-19 outbreaks
Technological exaptation and crisis management: Evidence from COVID-19 outbreaks
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DOI：
10.1111/radm.12455
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发表时间：
2021-02-02
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6.3
通讯作者：
Petruzzelli, Antonio Messeni
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作者：
Ardito, Lorenzo;Coccia, Mario;Petruzzelli, Antonio Messeni
技术分析和创新管理领域的关键问题之一是新技术如何在环境威胁的情况下产生和发展。我们面对这个问题时，重点关注新兴的创新解决方案，以应对危机带来的意外和有害问题，并需要快速、有效的应对措施。我们专门分析了应对新型冠状病毒疾病 (COVID-19) 的关键创新模式，该疾病正在全球范围内引发公共卫生和经济问题。因此，在技术外延理论的背景下，我们采用了一种叙事方法来检验最终治疗 COVID-19 的重要创新，尽管它们最初是为了治疗其他疾病（或多或少远离了 COVID-19 领域），如抗病毒药物瑞德西韦和抗风湿性关节炎药物托珠单抗。结果表明，技术外延，尤其是具有较长外延距离的技术外延，是短期内应对 COVID-19 和其他类似问题的创新的潜在驱动力。在此基础上，我们提出了更通用的危机创新模型。这项研究增加了一个新的视角，可能有助于解释危机下创新的演变，考虑环境威胁背景下的技术外延。
One of the key issues in the field of technology analysis and innovation management is how new technologies origin and evolve in the presence of environmental threats. We confront this problem focusing on emerging innovative solutions to cope with unexpected and harmful problems posed by crises and needing a rapid, effective response. We specifically analyze the patterns of critical innovations to cope with new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that is generating public health and economic issues worldwide. Accordingly, in the context of the theory of technological exaptation, we adopted a narrative approach examining vital innovations that ended up treating COVID-19 even though they were originated to treat other diseases (more or less distant from the COVID-19 domain), as the antiviral drug Remdesivir and the antirheumatoid arthritis drug Tocilizumab. Results reveal that technological exaptation, especially if characterized by a longer exaptive distance, is a potential driving force of innovation to cope with COVID-19 in the short-term and other similar issues. On this basis, we provide propositions for a more general crisis model of innovation. This study adds a new perspective that may be helpful to explain the evolution of innovation in the presence of crises, considering technological exaptation in a context of environmental threats.