Members
- Tiziana Russo Spena, Associate professor, Reser Council Treasurer - Email: russospe@unina.it
Research fields
INNOVATION AND SERVICE RESEARCH is our research team at the Department of Economics, Business and Institution -University of Naples Federico II (Naples- Italy) cooperating with a network of national and international researchers in the development of common projects, research activities and publications.
The Group works on three broad thematic areas
A) Innovation and new cognitive and digital technologies. The research aims to provide a step forward in the analysis of how and why new technologies promote or create transformational changes in the market and business contributing to value cocreation and improvements in individual and collective well-being. Research on specific technologies includes Artificial Intelligence and Health, Blockchain & digital payments, Blockchain & Agrifood, Social and service Robots in service interactions. The research interests are also focused on new forms of organising and carrying out business activities in a service economy and the role of cognitive technologies in promoting the transformative power of service innovation.
B) Practice-based approach to service innovation: Services are embedded in the development of the present society, and the emergence of new social, institutional and technological challenges create the need to look at a different way to innovation. Innovation needs a more holistic approach, and the idea of practice-based innovation (PBI) is at the centre of the research group interest. It provides a theoretical and empirical understanding of innovation as networking, emergent and social processes. Specifically, the research group has a particular focus on issues that emphasize resource-integrated and interactive processes, value co-creation, social and everyday activities as venues for innovation.
C) Innovation Ecosystem and open collaborative process. Innovation studies are deeply rooted in the business and ecosystems literature (Chesbrough, 2003; Adner, 2017) that rely on the assumptions that the innovative performance of a company can be encouraged by the expansion of its knowledge base through interactions with external parties. The research interest is on the increasing understanding of the nature of complex social and material interactions taking place in ecosystems, and the benefits and challenges that these entail in favouring conditions for innovation to emergence.
Expertises
Publications and references
- Russo Spena T., Di Paola N (2020). () «Navigating the tensions in environmental innovation: a paradox perspective.» European journal of innovation management.
- Russo Spena T., Mele, C.,Tregua, M., (2020). () «Social-business innovation: A fresh conceptualization of collective practices.» Social Business. Nb pages: 29.
- Russo Spena T., Mele C., . (2020) () «Smart technologies and Covid 19: The contribution of Digital and cognitive technologies to the fight against COVID-19 (Available at» . https://online.fliphtml5.com/hffyo/naoz/#p=22.
- Russo Spena T., Tregua, M., D'Auria, A., Bifulco, F (2020) «A digital business model: An illustrated framework from the cultural heritage business,» Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research.
- Russo Spena T., Di Paola N () «Navigating the tensions in environmental innovation: a paradox perspective» European journal of innovation management. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJEBR-01-2021-0088/full/html.