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It is a type of governance of the social organisation of innovation of small networks were actors that share bound in relation to a societal challenge they face and dealt with collectively and without hierarchy. Example, glo-cal, spatially and virtually communities of practice, like the communities of practice mediated by information and communication technologies.
The Matrix-Post cluster innovation policy
2 The 'Regional Development Platform Method'as a Tool for Innovation Policy2010 •
""In networked or open innovation processes, so-called innovation communities have been identified, in which innovation champions from different levels in the innovation system supposedly act as a team. Connecting the literature on innovation network orchestration and the role and position of different kinds of champions as brokers in innovation networks, the purpose of this article is to unravel the interaction between champions and what this entails in terms of role complementarities and conflicts as regards innovation network orchestration. This is done by using an explorative multiple case study approach in which three innovation journeys are analyzed. The results indicate that a distinction can be made between primary innovation communities, who act as aggregated orchestrators of the overall innovation network, and who in turn orchestrate secondary innovation communities in certain sub-networks. Here different kinds of champions complement each other and act as a team, but these complementarities are not a given: they are negotiated over time in interaction, and lack of reflection on each other’s roles may result in role conflicts. The main conclusion is that an oversimplified notion of innovation communities as a unified team of champions should be avoided: innovation communities themselves need a form of orchestration. Keywords: innovation champions, innovation intermediaries, innovation brokers, innovation networking, network orchestration""
The Matrix-Post cluster innovation policy
1 Cluster collaboration and glocalised value creation2010 •
The agricultural innovation systems approach emphasizes the collective nature of innovation and stresses that innovation is a co-evolutionary process, resulting from alignment of technical, social, institutional and organizational dimensions. These insights are increasingly informing interventions that focus on setting up multi-stakeholder initiatives, such as innovation platforms and networks, as mechanisms for enhancing agricultural innovation, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. There has been much emphasis on how such platforms are organized, but only limited analysis unravelling how they shape co-evolution of innovation processes. This paper addresses this gap and conceptualizes platforms as intermediaries that connect the different actors in innovation systems in order to foster effective co-evolution. We present a case study of a smallholder dairy development programme in Kenya, led by a consortium of five organizations that provide a platform for building multi-actor partnerships to enhance smallholder dairy productivity and improve livelihoods. The findings indicate that co evolution of innovation is a highly dynamic process with various interactional tensions and unexpected effects, and that the distributed nature of intermediation is important in resolving some of these tensions emerging at different actor interfaces. However, platforms are not always able to adapt adequately to emerging issues. This points to the need to look at platforms dynamically and pay more attention to mechanisms that strengthen feedback, learning and adaptive management in innovation processes
Journal of Constructional Steel Research
Post-Northridge connection with modified beam end configuration to enhance strength and ductility2009 •
Ids Bulletin-institute of Development Studies
Advances in Knowledge Brokering in the Agricultural Sector: Towards Innovation System Facilitation2012 •
Information and Communication Technology Agency, Sri Lanka
Nenasala: the Sri Lankan telecentre experience2012 •
Raumforschung und Raumordnung
Governance and Design of Urban Infostructures: Analysing Key Socio-Technical Systems for the Vulnerability and Resilience of Cities2012 •
Production Planning & Control
Collaborative networked organisations and customer communities: value co-creation and co-innovation in the networking era2011 •
2014 •
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2012 •
Innovation, Global Change and Territorial Resilience
Resilience, Innovative ‘White Spaces’ and Cluster-Platforms as a Response to Globalisation Shocks2012 •
2000 •
Wuppertal Papers
Responsible corporate governance: An overview of trends, initiatives and state-of-the-art elements. What sort of globalisation is sustainable?2003 •
2016 •
Rosenbrand and S. …
Sustainable District Logistics: a Theoretical framework for understanding a new paradigm2004 •
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
" Hub " Organisations in Kenya: What are they? What do they do? And what is their potential2017 •