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Dear Colleagues,

Join us for an introductory roundtable and Q&A about the Industry and Innovation Special Issue on Repurposing for Innovation: Navigating Technology, Uncertainty, and Sustainability in the Modern Business Landscape." 

When? 

Wednesday, January 08, 2025 at 15:30 hrs (CET) / 14:30 hrs (GMT) / 9:30 hrs (EST)

How to register?

You can register here: Teams Webinar Repurposing for Innovation

The Special Issue endeavours to investigate the antecedents and outcomes of innovations that result from repurposing ideas, knowledge, and technologies. Specifically, it aims to deepen our understanding of the sources, processes, conditions, and outcomes of reusing and recombining ideas, knowledge, and technologies. As such, this special issue focuses on four interrelated themes:

• Exploring antecedents: The first theme focuses on strategies to transform serendipity from a stroke of luck into a planned activity that can be harnessed as a (re)source, facilitating the organic emergence of repurposing.
• Exploring processes: The second theme considers applications of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the discovery and implementation of repurposed innovations.
• Exploring contexts: The third theme aims to advance knowledge on how high-uncertainty contexts, such as crises, can facilitate and provide incentives for the use of repurposing, turning challenges into opportunities.
• Exploring outcomes: The fourth theme investigates how recombination and reuse, broadly defined, of existing knowledge and technologies can address societal grand challenges.

We invite quantitative and qualitative empirical submissions studying the topic of "Repurposing for Innovation" in a variety of contexts and from diverse theoretical perspectives, including to organizational-, team-, individual-, and product-level analyses.

More information about the Special Issue can be found here.

Special Issue Editors

Isabel-Maria Bodas-Freitas (Grenoble Business School, Grenoble, France)

Marvin Hanisch (Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands)

Yansong Hu (Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Warwick, United Kingdom)

Dorota Piaskowska (College of Business, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)

Bastian Rake (School of Business, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland)