Linking Entities in Knowledge Transfer: The Innovation Intermediaries
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Linking Entities in Knowledge Transfer: The Innovation Intermediaries Tindara Abbate & Raffaella Coppolino & Francesco Schiavone
Received: 19 February 2013 / Accepted: 31 May 2013 # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Abstract Firms are now looking at how they can effectively recognize different ways of exploring, creating, experimenting, and developing R&D processes to increase value and to outperform their competitors. For this reason, many firms have focused their attention to opening up their internal innovation processes to include more external parties with the support of intermediaries of innovation. The purpose of the paper is to investigate emerging research fields on innovation intermediaries. These organizations can play an important role for developing and accelerating the combination of knowledge and competences necessary to solve innovation problems, by realizing the adequate connections and links among different actors geographically dispersed. They have also emerged as a networking platform, creating, developing, and stimulating innovation communities through interconnected networks of people and knowledge. From a mostly qualitative research, the paper stresses the findings in two specific directions. The first more theoretical layer identifies the main trends of analysis on innovation intermediaries; the second one underlines the practical involvement of the creative minds in the search and the development of innovation products and services. The outcomes can be useful to pinpoint the different mindset of researches on innovation intermediaries. Keywords Innovation intermediaries . Open innovation . Knowledge transfer . Involvement
Introduction In recent years, the business environment has been changed by heterogeneous factors related to the complex processes of globalization, to the increasingly internationalization, T. Abbate : R. Coppolino Department of Scienze Economico-Aziendali, Ambientali e Metodologie Quantitative, University of Messina, Via dei verdi 75, 98122 Messina, Italy F. Schiavone (*) Department of Management, University Parthenope, Via Generale Parisi 13, 80133 Naples, Italy e-mail: [email protected] F. Schiavone ESG Management School, Paris, France
J Knowl Econ
to stronger and aggressive competition, to the rapid diffusion of information and communication technologies (Chesbrough 2003a, b; Prahalad and Ramaswamy 2004; von Hippel 2005), to the knowledge revolution (Nonaka 1994; Marsh and Ranft 1999) and increasingly shorter time-to-market periods. Under these challenging conditions, knowledge and technological innovation are becoming the important drivers to achieve and to maintain competitiveness. Firms are now looking at how they can effectively recognize different ways of exploring, creating, experimenting, and developing R&D processes to increase value and to outperform their direct/indirect competitors. Following Chesbrough (2003a, b), many firms have focused their attention to opening up their internal innovation processes to include more external part
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