Innovation Drivers and Outputs for Software Firms: Literature Review and Concept Development

Table 8

Associations between drivers and product/service innovation.

Software innovation drivers	Software innovation output	Sources
Innovation leadership →	Product/service innovation	[28, 34, 35, 39, 40, 51, 55, 56]
(i) Work environment →		[33–35]
(ii) Path creation →		[39–42, 51, 129]
(iii) Portfolio management →		[39]
(iv) Conflict resolution
Innovation evaluation →		[82, 101, 122]
Knowledge leverage →		[3, 25, 35, 40–42, 54, 55, 72, 129, 130, 144]
(i) Absorptive capacity →		[6, 28, 35, 39, 50, 65, 82, 121]
(ii) Market understanding →		[35, 39, 40, 42, 52, 53, 121, 130]
(iii) Technology trajectory understanding →		[30, 34, 35, 39, 42, 51, 52, 130, 144]
(iv) User domain understanding →		[42, 56, 119, 120, 129, 144]
(v) Competitor understanding →		[35, 53]
Community and network →		[3, 34, 40, 50, 51, 54, 66, 67, 72, 81, 82, 130]
(i) Open innovation →		[50, 54, 65–67]
(ii) Open source →		[65, 67, 120]
(iii) Crowd sourcing →		[66]
User involvement →		[27, 29, 56, 66, 71, 73, 119, 122]
(i) Customization →		[71]
(ii) User-driven/lead user →		[27–29, 39, 72, 73]
Creative cognition →		[5, 25, 33, 79, 98, 101]
(i) Generative capacity →		[5, 27, 34, 66, 79, 81, 82, 100, 101]
(ii) Ideation expertise →		[35, 52, 79, 100]
Software design capability →		[105, 133]
(i) Concept →		[87, 105, 133]
(ii) Feature set →		[87, 133]
Teamwork →		[25, 40, 88, 98]
(i) Team composition →		[25]
(ii) Expertise integration →		[3, 41, 87]
(iii) Shared understanding		[25]
Innovation tools & techniques		[133]
(i) Creativity techniques →		[25, 33, 46, 79, 98, 133]
(ii) Creativity support tools →		[5, 33, 97, 100, 101]
(iii) User toolkits		[50, 73]
Development framework		[105]
(i) Agility		[105]
(ii) Creative requirements analysis →		[25, 71, 105]
(iii) Experimentation/prototyping →		[6, 56, 106]
Infrastructure/installed base →		[30, 51]
(i) Path dependency →		[51]

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