Joe Tidd

and
John Bessant

ISBN: 9781118360637

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 Chapter 6

Innovation networks

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Systems Innovation
How innovation happens?

Process Success (?)

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Systems Innovation
How it really happens …..

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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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Rothwell’s five generations

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Types of innovation networks

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Innovation networks

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Some types of innovation network
• Entrepreneur-based
• Internal team
• Communities of practice
• Spatial
• Sectoral
• Consortia
• Standards
• Supply chains
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 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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Open innovation …..

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 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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 Open collective innovation

Open Open user

search engagement

Open employee ?????

involvement
Networks into the unknown

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Finding, forming, performing in
networks

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 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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 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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 Network management – core
processes
• Boundary management
• Information processing
• Knowledge management
• Conflict resolution
• Risk/benefit sharing
• Motivation
• Decision-making
• Co-ordination
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