Identifying laxity factors in moving towards emerging innovations (Case study: government organizations)

Abstract

Background & Purpose: The literature on novel and emerging innovations has typically focused on describing the hard and technological levels. The aim of the current research is to identify the effective factors in stagnation or uncontrollable delay in the movement of government research organizations in the direction of new and emerging innovations.

Methodology: In terms of philosophy, interpretation and positivism, and in terms of the type of goal, in the category of applied research and research strategy, in the qualitative part, it has used thematic analysis with an inductive approach, and in the quantitative part, the method of partial least squares has been used. The data was collected in the qualitative part using in-depth semi-structured interviews with experts and in the quantitative part of the statistical population of employees of government research organizations, 269 samples were selected as statistical samples using Yamane's formula. In this research, a researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data, and the technique of hierarchical component models using the partial least squares (PLS) method and SmartPLS4 software was used.

Findings: Based on the analysis of the textual data of the interviews, after the integration of 148 primary identifiers, 35 basic themes, 7 organizing themes and 3 overarching themes were identified.

Conclusion: Lack of supportive culture as the most important cause of lakhti Hanban, including cooperation and working group, fostering a culture of teamwork, sharing ideas and views, not valuing organizational culture, not encouraging the owners of innovative ideas and views, have formed structural indicators of the lack of supportive culture.