Intermediation and the role of intermediaries in innovation

By Jeremy Howells. 2006

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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Innovation search of new ventures in a technology cluster: the role of ties with service intermediaries (2010, background): “Indeed, recent research on innovation starts to pay attention to the role of service intermediaries (e.g., Hargadon and Sutton, 1997; Howells, 2006; Wolpert, 2002).”
Unravelling the role of innovation platforms in supporting co-evolution of innovation: Contributions and tensions in a smallholder dairy development programme (2013, background): “Building on the theoretical and empirical insights from the broader innovation studies literature (Howells, 2006; van Lente et al., 2003; Winch and Courtney, 2007 ), AIS scholars have argued that there is thus an important role for so-called innovation intermediar ies, who engage in coordinatin g…”
Beyond knowledge brokering: an exploratory study on innovation intermediaries in an evolving smallholder agricultural system in Kenya (2011, background): “The important and catalytic role of innovation intermediaries in optimizing innovation system interaction (Howells 2006) forms a strong argument for their inclusion in the growing body of research on agricultural innovation systems. Distinguishing innovation intermediaries: specialized broker or a c”
The distribution of roles and functions for upscaling and outscaling innovations in agricultural innovation systems (2013, background): “The process promotor and the relationship promotor show a certain overlap with the concept of innovation intermediaries and innovation brokers (Howells, 2006; Klerkx and Leeuwis, 2008).”
Connecting local entrepreneurial ecosystems to global innovation networks: open innovation, double networks and knowledge integration (2011, background): “Constructing advantage in such a context is complex, relying on policies that promote both specialisation and ‘related knowledge’ (Cooke, 2007b) and intermediaries to connect with knowledge (Howells, 2006), including consultancies (Tether and Tajar, 2008) and universities (Reichert, 2006; Yusuf, 200”
Competitiveness of Small Farms and Innovative Food Supply Chains: The Role of Food Hubs in Creating Sustainable Regional and Local Food Systems (2016, neutral): “innovation brokers [135,136].”
Technology Transfer across Organizational Boundaries: Absorptive Capacity and Desorptive Capacity (2010, background): “For instance, consulting and intermediary firms that specialize in technology transfer may provide important advice for procedures and operational issues in transferring technology.(43) However, they will usually lack the necessary technological and market knowledge that would help establish the lin”
Intermediaries, Users and Social Learning in Technological Innovation (2008, background): “on innovation and organisational studies (e.g., Bessant and Rush, 1995; Howells, 2006) and deployed”
Modeling the relative efficiency of national innovation systems (2012, background): “All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2011.07.001 structures (Molas-Gallart et al., 2008) or intermediate organizations (Howells, 2006), actors in different cultural and organizational contexts across an NIS are connected, and these connections tighten the institutionally embedded relationship…”
National innovation systems and the intermediary role of industry associations in building institutional capacities for innovation in developing countries: a critical review of the literature (2015, background): “Looking primarily at firm based collaboration, this work views intermediaries as performing three primary functions (see Howells, 2006).”
Innovation intermediaries and collaboration: Knowledge–based practices and internal value creation (2018, positive): “Yet, when considering the role of innovation intermediaries as ‘ bridgers ’ of knowledge between organisations and those that introduce new combinations of knowledge – which necessitates them to make the most out of their existing trustworthy knowledge – (Hargadon and Sutton, 1997; Howells, 2006), i”
“All for One and One for All?” - Knowledge broker roles in managing tensions of internal coopetition: The Ubisoft case (2019, background): “one context to another (Howells, 2006) or utility as knowledge repository (Argote and Fahrenkopf, 2016).”
Opening science: towards an agenda of open science in academia and industry (2014, background): “Also established engineering firms take the role of innovation intermediaries moderating open innovation activities between collaborators (Howells 2006).”
Balancing multiple interests: embedding innovation intermediation in the agricultural knowledge infrastructure (2008, methodology): “Given their indirect effect on the business value chain, a quantitative impact assessment is inherently difficult however (Howells, 2006).”
Measuring Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (2016, background): “…of support services by a variety of intermediaries can substantially lower entry barriers for new entrepreneurial projects, reduce the time to market of innovations (see e.g. Zhang and Li 2010), and enhance the diffusion of innovations, as input to next generations of innovation 3 (Howells 2006).”