What is it about?
How an experimental R&D program in Norway contributed to creating national and regional development coalitions together with social partners (labour, industry, authorities).
Featured Image
Why is it important?
Explores in practice a range of contributions from social science research to regional and economic development.
Perspectives
I was the Research Council's manager for this program, working daily also with representatives of the national trade unions and industry associations. I think some 80 firms, some 80 researchers, and some 3,000 employees played active roles in the program. With my background in both academic and action research on worker-management relations, it gave me new inspiration to extend my own research into other aspects of innovation policy after the program. In today's parlance, we may have been creating the forerunner of a crowd-sourcing, network-based, open-innovation strategy, within a framework where the Investment in social capital significantly reduced the risks immanent in sharing.
Håkon Finne
SINTEF
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Creating Connectedness, March 2001, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/dowi.13.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
