Strengthening regional innovation through network-based innovation brokering
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This is an author's accepted manuscript of an article published in svare, h., & gausdal, a. h. (2015). strengthening regional innovation through network-based innovation brokering. entrepreneurship & regional development, 27(9-10), 1-25.[copyright taylor & francis], available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/08985626.2015.1095945.
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Svare, H., & Gausdal, A. H. (2015). Strengthening regional innovation through network-based innovation brokering. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 27(9-10), 1-25.Abstract
The primary objective of this paper is to demonstrate how regional innovation system theory may be translated into manageable micro-level methods with the potential for strengthening the productive dynamics of a regional innovation system. The paper meets this objective by presenting network-based innovation brokering (NBIB), a practical method designed using insights from regional innovation system theory and trust theory. Five cases from two Norwegian regional innovation networks show that in addition to knowledge development and diffusion, NBIB strengthened collaborative attitude and trust between members of the regional innovation system. Moreover, it served as an arena for entrepreneurial experimentation, resulting in projects combining two modes of innovation; the Science, Technology and Innovation mode and the Doing, Using and Interaction mode. The method, thus, may be viewed as a useful addition to the inventory of methods used to stimulate innovation in regional innovation systems (RISs). On a more general level, the paper represents a call to the community of innovation researchers and practitioners to give a higher priority to the question of how to better realize the pragmatic potential of RIS-theory.