Poster presented at the HEFCE Conference - Edinburg Nov 2010
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A poster I presented some time ago at a conference. Very nice experience and a lot of nice persons.
![The Role of Innovation Intermediaries in the Regional Innovation SystemAndrea Cocchi – Newcastle University Business School RIS as a context Institutional infrastructure (set of economic, political and organizational relationships), defined by a specific geographical area. Its aim it to support the development of the region through innovation, through the generation and management of a collective learning process among actors and institutions PROBLEMS For Policy Makers: how we can expect to manage such a complex phenomenon without knowing how system’s institutions and actors are actually organised and behave? For Scholars: how we can expect to understand the regional innovation dynamics profiting from a static, stereotyped representation of agents and institutions? Intermediaries in an I.S. (van Lente et al. 2003) OBJECT OF ANALYSIS On a specific family of actors: Innovation Intermediaries “An organization or body that acts an agent or broker in any aspect of the innovation process between two or more parties.” (Howells, 2006) RESEARCH QUESTIONS What is the nature of the relationship between Intermediary’s activities and Regional Innovation System? How this relationship is evolving? How the activities of Intermediaries are organised? Can these practices be subsumed by a specific model or behaviour characterising these actors? RESEARCH METHOD Comparative case study between Emilia-Romagna and Baden-Wurttemberg TECHNOPOLES IN EMILIA-ROMAGNA FOCUS On agency: “the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power” (Webster Dictionary) Entrepreneurship or Entrepreneurial Orientation of Innovation Intermediaries FUNCTIONS AND ACTIVITIES OF INTERMEDIARIES (Howells, 2006) ,[object Object]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/impactposterac2-13172834704271-phpapp02-110929030625-phpapp02/85/poster-presented-at-the-hefce-conference-edinburg-nov-2010-1-320.jpg)
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