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Papaioannou, Theo; Wield, David and Chataway, Joanna
(2009).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1068/c0832
Abstract
Recent academic and policy debate on innovation indicates that there has been some shift from a more traditional systems approach to ecologies and ecosystems. The latter are concepts transferred from the world of biology to the social world in order to explain the evolutionary nature
of interrelations between different individuals, their innovative activities, and their environment. We evaluate the concept of knowledge ecology and the theory of innovation ecosystem on two fundamental grounds; firstly, on the grounds of theoretical plausibility and conceptual consistency; secondly, on empirical grounds of the case of public-private interrelations of biotech innovation in
Cambridge. The argument is that the concept of knowledge ecology and the theory of innovation ecosystems can lead to problems of reductionism and functionalism. This is due to their development in abstraction from more grounded analysis of historical processes of the social division of labour. Knowledge and innovation need to be looked at in the context of historically founded processes of socioeconomic development.
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- Item ORO ID
- 15707
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 0263-774X
- Project Funding Details
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Not Set Not Set ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) - Keywords
- knowledge ecology; innovation system; public-private interrelations; biotechnology
- Academic Unit or School
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Development
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Research Group
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Innovation, Knowledge & Development research centre (IKD)
OpenSpace Research Centre (OSRC)
Institute for Innovation Generation in the Life Sciences (Innogen) - Copyright Holders
- © 2009 Pion Ltd and its Licensors
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- http://dpp.open.ac.uk(Research Group)
- Depositing User
- Theo Papaioannou