Learning and knowing in networking innovation (original) (raw)

2013

Abstract

Purpose Some recent studies promote the focus on practices to analyse innovation as something that people do (i.e., a practice) (Russo-Spena Mele 2012a; 2011b) as opposed to a linear process of knowledge application. The focus is on the social connections occurring among a group of peers individuals, collectives, organisations, and institutionsintegrating a multitude of resources (tools, know-how, images, material objects), as well as the contexts in which knowledge production and sharing take specific forms for innovation to occur (Orlikowski, 2002; Dougherty, 2004, Swan et al. 2007). Within practice studies innovation and its link with learning and knowledge processes is only marginally debated. Most of the research on practice includes a focus on the learning and knowledge process, which is largely derived from the field of organisational and knowledge management studies. Less attention has been dedicated to the analysis of the social and complex aspects of the learning process i...

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