An edition of Knowledge and innovation
(2007)
Knowledge and innovation
a comparative study of the USA, the UK and Japan
by Helen Brown
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Table of Contents
Introduction and overview
The international policy context
My aim and rationale
The structure of the book
The theoretical landscape of knowledge transfer
Theoretical portraits of the innovation process
Theories of policy change and implementation
Policy assumptions about triple helix partnerships
The nature of knowledge: discourses in socio-cultural theory
Innovation as collaboration and expansive learning
The paradox of creative destruction
Overview
A natural history of my research methodology
My methodological journey in the rough terrain of innovation
My research design
The UK case studies: high technology corridors (HTCs)
The Japanese cases: textiles and photonics
The US cases: Silicon Valley and sustainable energy innovation
My method of data presentation
Discussion of ethical and political issues
Overview
Reconstructing subject perspectives
The complexity of subject positioning and identity
Visualizing competing objects of activity
Overview
Horizontal expansion of the object by collaboration of experts
Horizontal expansion of the object of activity
How boundary objects bridge organizational cultures
Vignette: samples and prototypes as boundary objects
Vignette: management consultancy project in the UK
Vignette: projects: connecting industry with art schools
Vignette: collaborative projects to develop electronic tools
Users and developers: consumers oriented innovation
Vignette interacting with clients in the design process
Vignette: Nuno collaborations with fashion designers
Vignette: public-private sector partnership zero energy homes
Vignette: collaboration between users and developers of photonics
Vignette: how users transformed an outcome into a tool
Overview
Mediation between activity systems of unequal agency
Vertical expansion of the object of activity
The significance of power and hierarchical structures
Collaborative projects as cycles of expansive learning
Vignette: Nuno's sustained investment in collaboration
Vignette: Hamamatsu photonics cluster
Vignette: collaboration to create innovative stainless steel textiles
Vignette: collaborative ICT research project
Vignette: learning from a rapid prototyping project in the UK
Vignette: learning from a collaborative visualization software project
Crossing the Valley of Death
Vignette: the role of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley
Vignette: industry scanning and serious play: jellyfish fabric
Vignette: metallic plating of textiles
Vignette: collaboration on hydrogen fuel cells in California
Overview
The impact of complexity and power dynamics on organizational learning
Complexity of partnerships as a constraint on learning
Vignette: practical experience of large scale innovation
Vignette: the impact of multivariate objects
The importance of flexibility and autonomy
Vignette: balancing power dynamics in an architecture project
Vignette: how a mediator empowered a weak activity system
Vignette: the unique nurturing environment in Silicon Valley
Vignette: artistic goals and serious play
Mediators as mini-maestros of networks
Vignette: the capacity of designers to act as mini maestros -holograms
Vignette: collaboration in the creation of eco textiles
Vignette: combined impact of mediators and boundary objects: Novus
Conscription devices and emotional commitment to the object
Vignette: uniting communities in collaborative public interest research
Vignette: employee creativity: the object of Google activity
Vignette: collaboration between physicians and automotive designers
Vignette: collaboration between defence industry and physicians
Vignette: embedded projects within Medilink
Overview
Using evaluation as a tool for learning
Variations in the style and purpose of evaluation
How involvement in the process of evaluation supports learning
Vignette: the victory narrative and reflective evaluation
Vignette: sustaining coherent development with short term projects
Vignette: conflict between the roles of animateur and auditor
Vignette: bureaucracy: espoused and actual autonomy
Vignette: the creative power of conflict: action on sustainable energy
Overview
Insights from the research findings
Research question 1
Research question 2
Research question 3
Research question 4
Research question 5
A toolkit to support organizational learning
Vractical ways to enhance innovation partnerships
Diagnostic tools for innovation partnerships
Conclusions
Risks and limitations of the research
Future development of expansive learning theory
Bibliography.
Edition Notes
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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