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Mapping Innovation Networks

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  • Steve Conway

    (Strategic Management & Innovation Research Group, Aston Business School, Birmingham, B4 7ET, United Kingdom)

  • Fred Steward

    (Strategic Management & Innovation Research Group, Aston Business School, Birmingham, B4 7ET, United Kingdom)

Abstract

This paper outlines a detailed and systematic method for revealing and mapping out the network mobilised in the development of a discrete innovation. This is termed afocal action-set. Important to the utility of this approach has been the development of a set of conventions for the graphical expression of the network and its components: actors, links and flows. It is argued that the network graphic provides a powerful, though under-utilised, tool for the representation of relational data. It may be employed, for example, to reveal variations in network configuration and to highlight key networking or boundary-spanning actors. The network mapping approach is illustrated through three cases of small firm innovation drawn from a wider investigation of award-winning technological innovations. A comparison between the network maps show a variation in the key boundary-spanning interactions, which is related to the organisational background of the entrepreneurial actor.

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  • Steve Conway & Fred Steward, 1998. "Mapping Innovation Networks," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 2(02), pages 223-254.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:02:y:1998:i:02:n:s1363919698000110
    DOI: 10.1142/S1363919698000110
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    3. Zam-Zam Abdirahman & Leslie D Bourquin & Loïc Sauvée & Deepa Thiagarajan, 2018. "Food safety implementation in the perspective of network learning," Post-Print hal-03381864, HAL.
    4. Stephen Roper, 2001. "Benchmarking Regional Innovation: A Comparison of Bavaria, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland," ERSA conference papers ersa01p39, European Regional Science Association.
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    6. Malla Mattila & Hanna Lehtimaki, 2016. "Networks in Technology Commercialization," South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases, , vol. 5(1), pages 43-54, June.
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