Implications for innovators and policymakers in developing solutions for COVID-19 and other emergencies
30 DECEMBER, 2022: Dr Sreevas Sahasranamam, from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, will present a paper titled ‘Innovation Ecosystems for Emergencies’ from 11.30 am on 6 January 2023 at Classroom P21, at IIM Bangalore.
The paper examines what makes an innovation ecosystem responsive during emergencies after studying the innovation ecosystem within Kerala (India) that led to two emergency-oriented innovations, namely KeralaRescue (developed for Kerala Floods 2018) and CoronaSafe (developed for COVID-19), drawing on insights from strategic agility and institutional theory literature.
The enactment of three meta-capabilities of agility by the innovation ecosystem, which made it responsive during the emergencies, was identified. These are eco-centric strategic sensitivity, eco-centric resource fluidity and eco-centric collective commitment. Further, it was found that cognitive, structural and symbolic institutional arrangements facilitated the enactment of these eco-centric strategic agility meta-capabilities within the innovation ecosystem during the emergency.
The paper advances theory on innovation ecosystems and strategic agility, and generates implications for innovators and policymakers, developing solutions for COVID-19 and other emergencies.
SPEAKER PROFILE:
Dr Sreevas Sahasranamam is a Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, whose research predominantly focuses on understanding the strategic and ecosystem enablers of innovations/start-ups tackling UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). He is co-lead for the doctoral training centre in Socially Progressive Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde and co-lead of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK. A co-editor for the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research (an ABS 3 ranking journal), he is a board member and one of the Directors of Community Enterprise in Scotland (CEIS), the UK's largest and most experienced social enterprise support agency.
Speaker: Dr. Sreevas Sahasranamam, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Area: Entrepreneurship
Date: 06.01.2023, Venue: P21 @ 11.30AM
Implications for innovators and policymakers in developing solutions for COVID-19 and other emergencies
30 DECEMBER, 2022: Dr Sreevas Sahasranamam, from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, will present a paper titled ‘Innovation Ecosystems for Emergencies’ from 11.30 am on 6 January 2023 at Classroom P21, at IIM Bangalore.
The paper examines what makes an innovation ecosystem responsive during emergencies after studying the innovation ecosystem within Kerala (India) that led to two emergency-oriented innovations, namely KeralaRescue (developed for Kerala Floods 2018) and CoronaSafe (developed for COVID-19), drawing on insights from strategic agility and institutional theory literature.
The enactment of three meta-capabilities of agility by the innovation ecosystem, which made it responsive during the emergencies, was identified. These are eco-centric strategic sensitivity, eco-centric resource fluidity and eco-centric collective commitment. Further, it was found that cognitive, structural and symbolic institutional arrangements facilitated the enactment of these eco-centric strategic agility meta-capabilities within the innovation ecosystem during the emergency.
The paper advances theory on innovation ecosystems and strategic agility, and generates implications for innovators and policymakers, developing solutions for COVID-19 and other emergencies.
SPEAKER PROFILE:
Dr Sreevas Sahasranamam is a Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, whose research predominantly focuses on understanding the strategic and ecosystem enablers of innovations/start-ups tackling UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). He is co-lead for the doctoral training centre in Socially Progressive Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde and co-lead of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK. A co-editor for the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research (an ABS 3 ranking journal), he is a board member and one of the Directors of Community Enterprise in Scotland (CEIS), the UK's largest and most experienced social enterprise support agency.
Speaker: Dr. Sreevas Sahasranamam, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Area: Entrepreneurship
Date: 06.01.2023, Venue: P21 @ 11.30AM