Hi everyone, It is the beginning of September and everyone is still trying to figure out what the next academic year will look like.. and it’s already time for a new NUSE paper, sorry for that 😊 It is my first fully theoretical paper, and this is a rather developed draft, but it still does not have the concluding section. However, maybe this is a good point, because I feel I need your input specifically for discussing how to finalize this paper, and what you guys see as potential issues, possible directions, etc. I still have some time (about a month and a half) before official submission: this is a paper selected for a special issue. Therefore, without reinventing the wheel, I’d like to focus on: * Overall readability and clarity of construction of the argument and of the storyline, up until the presentation of the innovation capture concept: does the paper reads clearly and convincingly? If not, where exactly you would focus your attention? * Potential best directions to conclude the paper: should I just indicate the research trajectories that this concept invites to follow? What are these research trajectories? Do you see some links that I have not indicated yet? * Any other comment you want to bring to improve the manuscript. This is also, possibly, my last presentation at a NUSE meeting, and it is in a way for me very nice (although obviously also sad) to wrap up my time at NUSE with a last paper discussion :) Thank you for reading through it! Ciao, Giordano Giordano Zambelli Postdoctoral Researcher - SMIT-VUB Pleinlaan 9 - 1050 Brussel [cid683445FD-045E-4102-862E-DD52901C9C0A@home] Recent Publications Networks of Influence: Journalism Innovation and the Politics of Public Support (2026)<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1461670X.2026.2699776#abstract> Collaboration or co-optation? Navigating power asymmetries in publicly-funded innovation partnerships for the journalism sector<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14648849251365209> (2025) An emerging avenue of media innovation: knowledge-exchange in inter-firm collaborations (2025)<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16522354.2025.2454150>