Arturo Vega
Senior researcher, consultant and lecturer in innovation, technology and policy.
PhD, MBA, BEng, PG Cert Mktg, PG Cert HE, Cert IS, Electronic Eng. degree.
Relevant experience in multinational corporations and academia, with vast exposure in the UK, Spain, Mexico and Peru. I am a British and Peruvian citizen.
I have been internationally awarded due to my work in industry, research, teaching and studies.
I have developed true transdisciplinary knowledge of:
• Research
• Innovation/entrepreneurship (eco)systems
• Innovation and technology policy
• Knowledge exchange and impact of universities
• Technology entrepreneurship
• Business strategy
• Business/solution architecture
• Cross-functional business processes and applications
• Marketing and sales
• Information technologies
• Investment Management
• Developed and emerging countries
• Small and medium enterprises
• Education
I am entrepreneurial, strongly driven by strategic objectives and act tactically. I am excellent at leading and developing people, as a team player and working independently. Finally, I am fluent in both English and Spanish, apart from being an exceptional communicator.
PhD, MBA, BEng, PG Cert Mktg, PG Cert HE, Cert IS, Electronic Eng. degree.
Relevant experience in multinational corporations and academia, with vast exposure in the UK, Spain, Mexico and Peru. I am a British and Peruvian citizen.
I have been internationally awarded due to my work in industry, research, teaching and studies.
I have developed true transdisciplinary knowledge of:
• Research
• Innovation/entrepreneurship (eco)systems
• Innovation and technology policy
• Knowledge exchange and impact of universities
• Technology entrepreneurship
• Business strategy
• Business/solution architecture
• Cross-functional business processes and applications
• Marketing and sales
• Information technologies
• Investment Management
• Developed and emerging countries
• Small and medium enterprises
• Education
I am entrepreneurial, strongly driven by strategic objectives and act tactically. I am excellent at leading and developing people, as a team player and working independently. Finally, I am fluent in both English and Spanish, apart from being an exceptional communicator.
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guide the fieldwork and analysis. We found that the outcome, timing, and flow of the stages of the focal processes were affected by intricate and multilevel systems of mutually dependent complementary adoptions of innovations and non-innovations by a diversity of adopters, which ultimately determined the results of the focal adoptions. Our constructs define an alternative unit of analysis that provides a comprehensive and realistic view of the possibilities of effectively diffusing IS in SMEs. This emphasises the need to rethink the objects of study, agency functions, theoretical frameworks, and research approaches if we are to understand systems and design and implement system interventions, including public policies.
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore, through the use of a multidisciplinary lens, the policy context and the scope for improvements in university-based public programmes focused on improving innovation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Design/methodology/approach – The authors use the street-level bureaucracy (SLB), combined with the systems of innovation approach (SIA) and diagnostic analysis (DA) to understand the context components that impact on public programme services. The study is part of a research programme oriented to the diffusion of information systems in SMEs and which used original interview-based programme support case studies, interviews with regional policy managers, and documentation relating to the policy system and different public programmes. Although the empirical work was UK and European Union centric the results of the research have wide applicability.
Findings – The paper establishes the importance of programme contexts for diagnosing and providing a basis for public programme improvements. It further demonstrates the robustness of the context analysis framework to provide insights into proposed policy changes. The responsibility of improving programme contexts relies on actors that operate outside programme organisations, for instance EU funding bodies, government departments in charge of SME policies, public-private partnerships, and private evaluators. Given this complexity it is suggested that SME associations have a potentially important role in increasing participation by SMEs in the public programme for innovation and knowledge support policy. Despite possible policy changes the requirement for public programme support for innovation and hence the role of universities as programme providers is confirmed and expanded.
Research limitations/implications – The results demonstrate the value of a multidisciplinary framework to analyse programme interventions at both macro and micro levels and provide a basis for programme policy and policy implementation improvements.
Originality/value – This research is a novel attempt to use the SLB, SIA and DA to public programme university-based interventions in SMEs and SME policies in general. It complements extant research on open innovation and knowledge exchange by extending the concept of public programme contexts. Beneficiaries of the findings include policy makers, programme organisations, universities, SME associations, and researchers.
Given the importance of contextual influences on the diffusion of innovations, the theories and methodologies that take context into account are increasingly relevant to research and practice. One such approach, the systems of innovation approach, considers context to be a cascading set of effects arising from various participants and innovations surrounding the production and diffusion of a focal innovation. Based on this approach, we focus on a public program involved in the diffusion of e-business systems to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). E-business systems are complex innovations, and the contextual influences are particularly important here, because SMEs often lack the knowledge and resources to strategically adopt, modify, and use these innovations. Using the systems of innovation approach, we examined the contexts around public program interventions with an SME in order to explain their form and influence on e-business adoption processes. The empirical findings suggest that many public programs fail to effectively deliver interventions because program contexts restrict program personnel's ability to completely assess and respond to the range of adopter needs. While some aspects of the program contexts can be altered by the program directors, others are further removed and are currently beyond our collective control at this point-in-time. The implications for diffusion research and practice are discussed.
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guide the fieldwork and analysis. We found that the outcome, timing, and flow of the stages of the focal processes were affected by intricate and multilevel systems of mutually dependent complementary adoptions of innovations and non-innovations by a diversity of adopters, which ultimately determined the results of the focal adoptions. Our constructs define an alternative unit of analysis that provides a comprehensive and realistic view of the possibilities of effectively diffusing IS in SMEs. This emphasises the need to rethink the objects of study, agency functions, theoretical frameworks, and research approaches if we are to understand systems and design and implement system interventions, including public policies.
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore, through the use of a multidisciplinary lens, the policy context and the scope for improvements in university-based public programmes focused on improving innovation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Design/methodology/approach – The authors use the street-level bureaucracy (SLB), combined with the systems of innovation approach (SIA) and diagnostic analysis (DA) to understand the context components that impact on public programme services. The study is part of a research programme oriented to the diffusion of information systems in SMEs and which used original interview-based programme support case studies, interviews with regional policy managers, and documentation relating to the policy system and different public programmes. Although the empirical work was UK and European Union centric the results of the research have wide applicability.
Findings – The paper establishes the importance of programme contexts for diagnosing and providing a basis for public programme improvements. It further demonstrates the robustness of the context analysis framework to provide insights into proposed policy changes. The responsibility of improving programme contexts relies on actors that operate outside programme organisations, for instance EU funding bodies, government departments in charge of SME policies, public-private partnerships, and private evaluators. Given this complexity it is suggested that SME associations have a potentially important role in increasing participation by SMEs in the public programme for innovation and knowledge support policy. Despite possible policy changes the requirement for public programme support for innovation and hence the role of universities as programme providers is confirmed and expanded.
Research limitations/implications – The results demonstrate the value of a multidisciplinary framework to analyse programme interventions at both macro and micro levels and provide a basis for programme policy and policy implementation improvements.
Originality/value – This research is a novel attempt to use the SLB, SIA and DA to public programme university-based interventions in SMEs and SME policies in general. It complements extant research on open innovation and knowledge exchange by extending the concept of public programme contexts. Beneficiaries of the findings include policy makers, programme organisations, universities, SME associations, and researchers.
Given the importance of contextual influences on the diffusion of innovations, the theories and methodologies that take context into account are increasingly relevant to research and practice. One such approach, the systems of innovation approach, considers context to be a cascading set of effects arising from various participants and innovations surrounding the production and diffusion of a focal innovation. Based on this approach, we focus on a public program involved in the diffusion of e-business systems to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). E-business systems are complex innovations, and the contextual influences are particularly important here, because SMEs often lack the knowledge and resources to strategically adopt, modify, and use these innovations. Using the systems of innovation approach, we examined the contexts around public program interventions with an SME in order to explain their form and influence on e-business adoption processes. The empirical findings suggest that many public programs fail to effectively deliver interventions because program contexts restrict program personnel's ability to completely assess and respond to the range of adopter needs. While some aspects of the program contexts can be altered by the program directors, others are further removed and are currently beyond our collective control at this point-in-time. The implications for diffusion research and practice are discussed.