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1. Joe Tidd
and
John Bessant
ISBN: 9781118360637
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2. Chapter 6
Innovation networks
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3. Systems Innovation
How innovation happens?
Success (?)
Process
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4. Systems Innovation
How it really happens …..
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5. Innovation is a multi-player game
Key issues:
• Distributed innovation and need for networks
• Open collective innovation – the context
• Networks on the inside
• Networks on the outside
• Networks into the unknown
• Networks for learning
• Challenges in managing innovation networks
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6. Types of innovation networks
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7. Innovation networks
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8. Some types of innovation network
• Entrepreneur-based
• Internal team
• Communities of practice
• Spatial
• Sectoral
• Consortia
• Standards
• Supply chains
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9. Networks on the inside …
• Innovation teams and linkages
• Communities of practice
• On-line communities
• Physical architecture to facilitate networking
• Gatekeepers, bridges, holes – social networks
in innovation
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10. Emerging futures for innovation ……..
• Acceleration of well established trajectories
– Open search
– Open involvement
– Open stakeholder participation
• Technologically and socially enabled
• Emergent properties around ‘open
collective innovation’
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11. Open collective innovation
Open
search
Open employee
involvement
Open user
engagement
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12. Networks into the unknown
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13. Finding, forming, performing in
networks
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14. Networks for learning
• Potential of collective and shared learning
• Ways of configuring – communities of
practice, regional clusters, sectoral clusters,
supply-chains, topic clusters, etc.
• Role of facilitation and support for learning
• Challenges in set-up, operation and
sustainability
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15. Managing innovation networks
• Learning to manage beyond the organization
• Collaboration and co-operation, not control
• Spillovers and free-riding problems
• Role of catalysts and champions
• Network management
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16. Network management – core
processes
• Boundary management
• Information processing
• Knowledge management
• Conflict resolution
• Risk/benefit sharing
• Motivation
• Decision-making
• Co-ordination
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