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Research Talk by Alina Sorescu, Texas A&M University (US)

22. Dezember 2023

Alina So­res­cu from Texas A&M Uni­ver­si­ty was the la­test guest in our Re­se­arch Se­mi­nar Se­ries, pre­sen­ting her re­se­arch on busi­ness model in­no­va­ti­on. This area is often less ex­plo­red com­pa­red to pro­duct in­no­va­ti­on but is cri­ti­cal for un­der­stan­ding how com­pa­nies are chan­ging their ope­ra­ti­ons, de­li­vering value, and in­ter­ac­ting with cus­to­mers in the di­gi­tal eco­no­my.

So­res­cu's pre­sen­ta­ti­on dis­sec­ted the com­po­n­ents of busi­ness model in­no­va­ti­on, de­mons­tra­ting its trans­for­ma­ti­ve po­ten­ti­al, which has been under less em­pi­ri­cal in­ves­ti­ga­ti­on. She fo­cu­sed on young, large-​scale or­ga­niza­ti­ons and their in­cli­na­ti­on to­wards busi­ness model in­no­va­ti­on, a trend dri­ven by the dy­na­mic na­tu­re of high-​growth in­dus­tries where tra­di­tio­nal value crea­ti­on me­thods are be­co­ming out­da­ted. In these sec­tors, com­pa­nies are in­crea­sin­gly le­ver­aging di­gi­tal tech­no­lo­gies, prio­ri­ti­zing ad­ap­ta­bi­li­ty and busi­ness model re­st­ruc­tu­ring over firm-​level tech­ni­cal know­ledge.

The me­tho­do­lo­gy So­res­cu em­ploy­ed was no­ta­b­ly in­no­va­ti­ve. Th­rough text ana­ly­sis of IPO pro­spec­tus­es, she pro­vi­ded a quan­ti­fia­ble me­thod to as­sess a com­pa­ny's em­pha­sis on busi­ness model ver­sus pro­duct in­no­va­ti­on. This re­ve­a­led a si­gni­fi­cant shift in in­ves­tor at­ti­tu­des, with a gro­wing re­co­gni­ti­on of the com­plex be­ne­fits and po­ten­ti­al re­turns of in­no­va­ti­ve busi­ness mo­dels, high­ligh­ting that in­ves­tors are va­luing the long-​term be­ne­fits and com­pe­ti­ti­ve ad­van­ta­ges of busi­ness model in­no­va­ti­on.

The se­mi­nar went bey­ond aca­de­mic dis­cus­sion; it was a call to ac­tion for both busi­nes­ses and re­se­ar­chers to re­con­sider their in­no­va­ti­on stra­te­gies in the face of di­gi­tal pro­gress. For aca­de­mics, the im­por­tance lies in re­se­ar­ching the va­rious lay­ers of in­no­va­ti­on that af­fect firm per­for­mance, in­ves­tor be­ha­vi­or, and mar­ket ten­den­ci­es.

To con­clu­de, Alina So­res­cu's re­se­arch of­fers a sub­stan­ti­al in­sight into the role of in­no­va­ti­on in the di­gi­tal eco­no­my. Her se­mi­nar pro­vi­ded a tho­rough ana­ly­sis of the pi­vo­tal role of busi­ness model in­no­va­ti­on in the suc­cess of mo­dern firms and spur­red a deeper con­ver­sa­ti­on about in­no­va­ti­on and its broa­der im­pli­ca­ti­ons, mar­king a shift in the way we un­der­stand the dri­vers of growth and trans­for­ma­ti­on in the di­gi­tal age. We ex­tend our gra­ti­tu­de to Alina for sharing her in­sight­ful work with us.

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