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Innovating by bricolage: how do firms diversify through knowledge interactions with FabLabs?

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This paper provides some insights into the way a fabrication laboratory (FabLab) increases local entrepreneurial capabilities by offering a new and collective way to co-shape novelties based on a bricolage mode of innovation. With an original survey of 48 international FabLabs, it was observed that FabLabs tend to co-produce more unstabilized prototypes or drafts when interacting with small firms, whereas they co-produce more spin-offs and related variety when in a partnership with large firms. Moreover, FabLabs produce more outputs when they are connected to both small and large firms. In other words, the FabLab’s output is sensitive to its industrial partnerships and can be a driver for regional diversification under specific conditions.

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  • Raphaël Suire, 2019. "Innovating by bricolage: how do firms diversify through knowledge interactions with FabLabs?," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(7), pages 939-950, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:53:y:2019:i:7:p:939-950
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2018.1522431
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    1. Mengmeng Meng & Jiasu Lei & Jie Jiao & Qiuyan Tao, 2020. "How does strategic flexibility affect bricolage: The moderating role of environmental turbulence," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(8), pages 1-18, August.
    2. Sophie Boutillier & Ignasi Capdevila & Laurent Dupont & Laure Morel, 2020. "Collaborative spaces promoting creativity and innovation," Post-Print hal-02878132, HAL.
    3. Beltagui, Ahmad & Sesis, Achilleas & Stylos, Nikolaos, 2021. "A bricolage perspective on democratising innovation: The case of 3D printing in makerspaces," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 163(C).
    4. Jianyu Zhao & Yining Huang & Xi Xi & Shanshan Wang, 2021. "How knowledge heterogeneity influences business model design: mediating effects of strategic learning and bricolage," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 17(2), pages 889-919, June.
    5. Etienne Capron & Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux & Raphaël Suire, 2020. "Anatomy of a techno-creative community : the role of places and events in the emergence of videomapping in Nantes," Working Papers hal-02617101, HAL.
    6. Patrick Cohendet & David Grandadam & Raphaël Suire, 2021. "Reconsidering the dynamics of local knowledge creation: Middlegrounds and local innovation commons in the case of FabLabs," Post-Print hal-03622101, HAL.
    7. Sharma, Gautam & Haldar, Stuti, 2023. "Dynamics of innovation in makerspaces and fabrication labs: a systematic literature review," Papers in Innovation Studies 2023/10, Lund University, CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research.
    8. Stefano Lucarelli, 2022. "Citta' e territori in Italia ai tempi della pandemia: Milano come caso-studio. Una rassegna ragionata della letteratura (Cities and territories in Italy at the time of the Pandaemia: Milan as a case s," Moneta e Credito, Economia civile, vol. 75(297), pages 41-59.
    9. Jennifer Johns & Sarah Marie Hall, 2020. "‘I have so little time […] I got shit I need to do’: Critical perspectives on making and sharing in Manchester’s FabLab," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 52(7), pages 1292-1312, October.
    10. Cohendet Patrick & Grandadam David & Suire Raphaël, 2021. "Reconsidering the dynamics of local knowledge creation: Middlegrounds and local innovation commons in the case of FabLabs," ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, De Gruyter, vol. 65(1), pages 1-11, March.

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