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RIS as a context

RESEARCH METHOD Comparative case study between Emilia-Romagna and Beden-Wurttemberg TECHNOPOLES IN EMILIA-ROMAGNA FOCUS

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RIS as a context

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  1. RESEARCH METHOD Comparative case study between Emilia-Romagna and Beden-Wurttemberg TECHNOPOLES IN EMILIA-ROMAGNA FOCUS • On agency: “the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power” (Webster Dictionary)  Entrepreneurship or Entrepreneurial Orientation of Innovation Intermediaries • FUNCTIONS AND ACTIVITIES OF INTERMEDIARIES (Howells, 2006) • Foresight and diagnostics • Scanning and information processing • Knowledge processing, generation, and combination • Gate-keeping and brokering • Testing, validation, and training • Accreditation and standards • Regulation and arbitration • Protecting the results • Commercializing and exploiting the outcomes • Assessment and evaluation • INTERPRETATIVE MODEL (Zahara et al. 2006) The Role of Innovation Intermediaries in the Regional Innovation SystemAndrea Cocchi – Newcastle University Business School RIS as a context Institutional infrastructure (set of economic, political and organizational relationships), defined by a specific geographical area. Its aim it to support the development of the region through innovation, through the generation and management of a collective learning process among actors and institutions PROBLEMS For Policy Makers: how we can expect to manage such a complex phenomenon without knowing how system’s institutions and actors are actually organised and behave? For Scholars: how we can expect to understand the regional innovation dynamics profiting from a static, stereotyped representation of agents and institutions? Intermediaries in an I.S. (van Lente et al. 2003) OBJECT OF ANALYSIS On a specific family of actors: Innovation Intermediaries “An organization or body that acts an agent or broker in any aspect of the innovation process between two or more parties.” (Howells, 2006) RESEARCH QUESTIONS What is the nature of the relationship between Intermediary’s activities and Regional Innovation System? How this relationship is evolving? How the activities of Intermediaries are organised? Can these practices be subsumed by a specific model or behaviour characterising these actors?

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