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Management of Technological Innovation for Sustainable Growth: An Ontological Meta‐Analysis

The concept of sustainable growth has been gaining momentum globally due to the need to manage limited resources like energy, food and air while at the same time sustaining the growth of economies for the wellbeing of the people. Technological innovations are the key to optimizing the use of resources in societies pursuing sustainable growth. The interest in managing technological innovations for sustainable growth (MOTISG) is emerging from different groups of stakeholders who bring their own approaches, frameworks or biases to study the problem. The challenges of sustainable growth under these partial perspectives and particular lenses generate narrowly focused knowledge in the respective stakeholders’ domains. But such knowledge may not be necessarily compatible across domains, when seen from a more comprehensive perspective. For example, technological innovations to use green energy in manufacturing for sustainable economic growth may adversely affect the local farmers’ agricultural practices and hence their social and cultural growth.A systematic and systemic approach is needed to inclusively understand, assess, plan, manage and monitor the effectiveness of strategies, policies, and practices of sustainable growth. Such a complex ecosystem is not amenable to simple, fragmented analysis. Also, the results of the analyses have to be comprehensively synthesized to orchestrate the efforts and measure the consequences of decisions. Thus, our central questions are: How to represent in an integrative framework the knowledge generated to manage technological innovation for sustainable growth? Are there emphases or gaps in the knowledge generated and transferred among communities of science and practice for technological innovation for sustainable growth?The authors propose an ontological framework for MOTSIG and conduct a meta-analysis of the available literature and systematically map the scientific publications of the last five years in this area. The ontology has five dimensions derived from the definition of the domain – Stakeholder, Management, Innovation, Technology, and Growth. Each dimension is defined by a taxonomy of constituent elements. A taxonomy may be extended by adding categories, reduced by eliminating them, refined by adding subcategories, and coarsened by aggregating them. The dimensions are arranged left to right, with adjacent suffixes and prefixes, such that one can construct a natural English sentence by concatenating an element from each dimension with the suffixes/prefixes.By mapping and meta-analyzing papers indexed in a comprehensive, curated bibliographic database, we identify areas of knowledge that have received more attention in the period of the search, but also the areas where knowledge generation and transfer are missing. We thus identify the ‘bright’, ‘light’, and ‘blind/blank’ spots in MOTISG research. Thus, using the ontological maps the efforts of researchers, policymakers and practitioners can be aligned to satisfy the agendas of national innovation systems.