Taken from The Proceedings of The XX ISPIM Conference 2009 Vienna, Austria - 21-24 June 2009 ISBN 978-952-214-767-7.
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Innovation broker’s role as rule breaking or regular bonding?
Abstract
This paper presents four selected case-studies’ contribution to a framework aimed at improving micro – macro manageability of innovating actors, processes and results in a learning network around a local Science and Technology Park. They were part of a prospective action research project focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship in a “bi-modal” regional context, where mixed methods were applied, with techniques ranging from online surveying, virtual game simulation, observation, benchmarking and scenario building. The comprehensive framework, built with grounded theory dramatizing Max Weber’s ideal-types, allowed us to clarify innovation at an organizational scale, understanding the broker’s role in its dynamics, social relations, systemic interactions and intangible results. we believe the framework proved its utility to the project by questioning through diverse contexts the global/local strategies, the citizenship, learning, and competitiveness behaviours, and the success, conceived as long term sustainability, among innovators, business leaders, potential entrepreneurs, non-profit NGOs, schools, and policy makers.
Keywords
innovation brokerage; intrapreneurship; entrepreneurship; regional prospective; action-reseach; mixed methods; systemic; ideal-typical modelling