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The innovative firm: nexus of communities and creativity

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  • Patrick Cohendet
  • Patrick Llerena
  • Laurent Simon

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The following contribution aims to analyze the sources of creativity in a modern, highly innovative and ?stylised? company that does not rely on traditional sources of innovation (large R&D units, research cooperative agreements, R&D contracts with university centres, etc.). We show that the theories of the innovative firm have to be coupled with the understanding of local innovative processes. We consider communities (and in particular knowing communities) as relevant units of analysis to tackle our understanding of the innovative organization and to further analyze firms as a complex ecology of communities (inside and in-between communities of specialists) within the external environment (in ?spaces and places? fostering and supporting innovation).

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  • Patrick Cohendet & Patrick Llerena & Laurent Simon, 2010. "The innovative firm: nexus of communities and creativity," Revue d'économie industrielle, De Boeck Université, vol. 0(1), pages 139-170.
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    1. Laurent Antonczak & Thierry Burger-Helmchen, 2022. "Creativity on the Move: Nexus of Technology, Slack and Social Complexities," Post-Print hal-03631857, HAL.
    2. Thierry Burger-Helmchen & Patrick Llerena, 2012. "Creativity, Human Resources and Organizational Learning," Chapters, in: Guido Buenstorf (ed.), Evolution, Organization and Economic Behavior, chapter 8, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    3. Giuseppe Attanasi & Michela Chessa & Sara Gil-Gallen & Patrick Llerena, 2021. "A survey on experimental elicitation of creativity in economics," Revue d'économie industrielle, De Boeck Université, vol. 0(2), pages 273-324.
    4. Cohendet Patrick & Llerena Patrick & Simon Laurent, 2014. "The Routinization of Creativity: Lessons from the Case of a Video-game Creative Powerhouse," Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), De Gruyter, vol. 234(2-3), pages 120-141, April.
    5. André Cipriani, 2014. "L'art comme outil de lien social et de management interculturel au sein d'entreprises innovantes ?," Post-Print hal-01164492, HAL.
    6. Thierry Gateau & Laurent Simon, 2016. "Clown Scouting And Casting At The Cirque Du Soleil: Designing Boundary Practices For Talent Development And Knowledge Creation," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 20(04), pages 1-31, May.
    7. Gilles Garel, 2018. "Les communautés aux origines de la micro-informatique : des amateurs aux entreprises," Post-Print hal-02557212, HAL.
    8. Trott, Paul & Simms, Chris, 2017. "An examination of product innovation in low- and medium-technology industries: Cases from the UK packaged food sector," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 46(3), pages 605-623.

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