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Orchestrating a new industrial field. The case of the Finnish wood-based bioeconomy

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  • Kari Lilja
  • Eli Moen

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The article's focus is on how companies and institutions interact and cooperate in order to develop the wood-based bioeconomy field. Based on a case study of the Finnish forest sector, the paper shows that shifting to sustainability requires processes of co-creation. As radical innovation requires complementary competences, companies have had to cooperate with a large number of actors. By interacting with multiple actors at multiple levels, both companies and institutions have engaged in new types of activities that have led to a change in their respective roles. By taking on responsibility for developing the new industrial field, both companies and institutions act as orchestrators for mobilising a large number of public and private actors. Subsequently, the paper argues that this interaction has produced a new type of complementarity between companies and institutions facilitating the development of the new industrial field.

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  • Kari Lilja & Eli Moen, 2017. "Orchestrating a new industrial field. The case of the Finnish wood-based bioeconomy," International Journal of Business Environment, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 9(3), pages 266-278.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbenv:v:9:y:2017:i:3:p:266-278
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