The New Space Economy market is gaining traction worldwide, and new opportunities are arising for the private sector. This study focuses mainly on Earth Observation (EO) since remote sensing applications can be highly beneficial to our society, but they have not been fully exploited yet. To unlock EO's potential, the European Commission in collaboration with the European Space Agency established Copernicus, a Space Programme that offers free EO data and information services. This research studies four intermediaries in the Copernicus Ecosystem by considering the intermediated organisations' perspective, which is often overlooked in scientific literature. The empirical investigation involves a purposive sampling technique that led us to collect data from 28 interviews, consequently analysed through the Gioia methodology (Gioia et al. 2013) which enables themes’ aggregation and conceptualisation. Considering a resource-based perspective, the findings are interpreted through a VRIO framework adapted to the space ecosystem, showing that Copernicus intermediaries effectively enable intermediated organisations to exploit market opportunities and mitigate market threats by providing valuable resources. Nonetheless, the offered resources are not tailored to the characteristics and needs of the intermediated organisations; the trade-off they offer between vertical and horizontal services is sometimes unbalanced; finally, some market-related problems are not fully attenuated.
Il mercato della New Space Economy si sta affermando in tutto il mondo e si aprono nuove opportunità per il settore privato. Questo studio si concentra principalmente sull'Osservazione della Terra (EO), poiché le applicazioni di telerilevamento possono essere molto utili per la nostra società ma non sono ancora state sfruttate pienamente. Per sbloccare il potenziale dell'EO, la Commissione Europea in collaborazione con l'Agenzia spaziale europea ha istituito Copernicus, un programma spaziale che offre servizi gratuiti di dati e informazioni sull'EO. Questa ricerca studia quattro intermediari nell'ecosistema Copernicus considerando la prospettiva delle organizzazioni intermediate, spesso trascurata nella letteratura scientifica. L'indagine empirica prevede una tecnica di campionamento mirato che ci ha portato a raccogliere i dati di 28 interviste, analizzati poi attraverso la metodologia Gioia (Gioia et al. 2013), che ci ha permesso di aggregarli e concettualizzarli. Attraverso l'adozione di un modello VRIO adattato, i risultati vengono interpretati e mostrano che gli intermediari di Copernicus consentono effettivamente alle organizzazioni intermediate di sfruttare le opportunità di mercato e di mitigare le minacce del mercato, fornendo risorse preziose. Tuttavia, le risorse offerte non sono spesso adeguate alle caratteristiche e alle esigenze delle organizzazioni intermediate; il trade-off che offrono tra servizi verticali e orizzontali è talvolta sbilanciato; infine, alcuni problemi legati al mercato non sono completamente attenuati.
The role of innovation intermediaries in innovation ecosystems : an empirical investigation of the Copernicus space programme
CALZI, ALESSANDRO;MIRRI, PIETRO
2021/2022
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The New Space Economy market is gaining traction worldwide, and new opportunities are arising for the private sector. This study focuses mainly on Earth Observation (EO) since remote sensing applications can be highly beneficial to our society, but they have not been fully exploited yet. To unlock EO's potential, the European Commission in collaboration with the European Space Agency established Copernicus, a Space Programme that offers free EO data and information services. This research studies four intermediaries in the Copernicus Ecosystem by considering the intermediated organisations' perspective, which is often overlooked in scientific literature. The empirical investigation involves a purposive sampling technique that led us to collect data from 28 interviews, consequently analysed through the Gioia methodology (Gioia et al. 2013) which enables themes’ aggregation and conceptualisation. Considering a resource-based perspective, the findings are interpreted through a VRIO framework adapted to the space ecosystem, showing that Copernicus intermediaries effectively enable intermediated organisations to exploit market opportunities and mitigate market threats by providing valuable resources. Nonetheless, the offered resources are not tailored to the characteristics and needs of the intermediated organisations; the trade-off they offer between vertical and horizontal services is sometimes unbalanced; finally, some market-related problems are not fully attenuated.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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https://hdl.handle.net/10589/198799