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Orchestrating innovation ecosystems across lifecycle stages : evolving orchestration practices for ecosystem continuity
Vonk, W.J.H. (2025) Orchestrating innovation ecosystems across lifecycle stages : evolving orchestration practices for ecosystem continuity.
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| Abstract: | Innovation ecosystems are key drivers of complex innovations, relying on effective orchestration to manage collaboration, align objectives, and foster value co-creation across different lifecycle stages. However, despite growing research, the evolution of orchestration across the lifecycle stages—initiation, growth, maturity, and renewal—remains underexplored. This study addresses this gap by examining eleven Dutch innovation ecosystems across various lifecycle stages, offering a comprehensive analysis of how orchestrators adapt their approaches, roles, and strategies to manage stage-specific challenges and dynamics. The findings reveal three key insights: First, the study highlights that orchestration evolves dynamically in response to the changing complexities of each stage, transitioning from directive roles in early stages to facilitative roles in later stages, ensuring alignment with ecosystem goals while fostering participant autonomy. Second, it underscores the critical interplay between top-down and bottom-up orchestration approaches, demonstrating that balancing these approaches is essential to sustaining collaboration, innovation, and ecosystem continuity. Third, it identifies that challenges such as aligning diverse interests, managing scaling complexities, and sustaining engagement manifest differently across lifecycle stages, necessitating stage-specific orchestration strategies. This study refines existing orchestration models, highlighting orchestrators’ dynamic roles and offering strategies to foster growth, resilience, and effective coordination in innovation ecosystems across lifecycle stages. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 85 business administration, organizational science |
| Programme: | Business Administration MSc (60644) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/104859 |
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