Sustaining Innovation: Collaboration Models For A Complex World (innovation, Technology, And Knowledge Management)

In many ways, the process of innovation is a constant social dance, where the best dancers thrive by adapting new steps with multiple partners. The systematic and continuous generation of value in any innovation system relies on collaboration between different groups, who must overcome multiple, often competing agendas and needs to work together fruitfully over the long term. Featuring contributions from leading researchers, business leaders, and policymakers representing North America, Europe, India, Africa, and Australasia, this volume investigates different combinations of collaborative arrangements among innovation actors, many of which are changing conventional expectations of institutional relationships. Collectively, the authors demonstrate that no particular combination has emerged as the most dominant, or even resilient, model of innovation. Several authors expand on our understanding of the triple helix model, with both academics and practitioners looking to the quadruple helix (encompassing business, academic, government, and civil society) as the new standard. Other authors address aspects of open innovation, co-creation, and user-centered design--all testaments to the rapidly shifting landscape. At the same time, many businesses, academics, and governments, not to mention non-profit organizations, foundations, and society at large, are active in conversations about how to pursue a more sustainable model of innovation. The pursuit of this holy grail of innovation is both facilitated and complicated by an ever-accelerating technological environment in which social networking and mobile tools are emerging as new dance arenas. Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv Exploring a Vision for Sustaining Innovation in African Economies....Pages 1-14 CLIQ: A Practical Approach to the Quadruple Helix and More Open Innovation....Pages 15-29 The First Bank of Cents: Innovative Carpooling Through Social Currencies....Pages 31-48 Collaborative Healthcare Innovation in Sweden....Pages 49-62 Understanding Collaboration in Knowledge Processes in Indian Industry....Pages 63-78 Public Policy Support to Triple Helix R&D Collaborations: A European Model for Fourth Pillar Organizations....Pages 79-93 Strategic Process of Change: A Multiple Network Game—The Rohner Textil Case....Pages 95-113 The BBVA Innovation Network....Pages 115-124 A Network of Networks: The Case of the UK Technology Strategy Board....Pages 125-140 Revolutionizing the Value Chain in the Sporting Goods Industry Through Virtualization....Pages 141-152 Technology Foresight: The Evolution of the Shell GameChanger Technology Futures Program....Pages 153-165 Back Matter....Pages 167-170 Continued creativity in innovation relies on collaboration between distinct groups who must overcome frequently competing agendas. With contributions from academics, business leaders, and policymakers this volume explores differing collaborative combinations.