Innovation policy - Adressing innovation systems failure
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What is the collective efficiency of clusters?
- Local pool of specialized labor
- Knowledge spill- overs
- Supportive socio-cultural attributes associated with working practices
- A network of public and private organizations supporting local firms
- Many linkages for both market and non-market exchanges-resource exchange
What does stimulating innovation systems and cluster interaction: the role of brokers mean?
These are spiders in the 'innovation web':
- Bridging gaps between demand and supply in knowledge infrastructure
- Facilitating networking in broader innovation system
- Thus: reducing uncertainty
What is the definition of an innovation broker
Winch and Courtney: an organisation acting as a member of a network of actors that is focused neither on the organisation nor the implementation of innovations, but on enabling other organisations to innovate
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What are the main functions of an innovation broker
- Demand articulation (SWOT and foresight, out-of-the-box thinking)
- Network formation/composition (scanning, scoping, filtering and matchmaking)
- Innovation process management (orchestration)
Network management (cultivating trust, arranging agreements)
Mediator (creating mutual understanding, synchronizing expectations, mitigating conflict)
Gatekeeper (filtering information)
Catalyst (creating and maintaining energy)
What are the different scopes of an innovation broker
- national, sectoral, regional, technological
- Incremental or disruptive (radical) innovations
What are the achievements of an innovation broker?
- Increasing mutual understanding and broadening perspectives
- Innovation brokers act neutrally/impartially
- Catalyze innovation system interaction
- Innovation capacity building
What are the tensions of an innovation broker
- Balancing demands from different parties- different account abilities
- Maintaining neutrally in innovation process and- system in light of 'creative destruction' can be hard
- Brokerage function is quite intangible, so low willingness-to-pay and attribution problems
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