Science parks as knowledge organizations - The "ba" in action?

European Journal of Innovation Management

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 348-366

  Hansson, Finn ^a  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Innovation; Knowledge creation; Knowledge management; Learning organizations; Science parks

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547541322     PISSN: 14601060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14601060710776752     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Archibugi, D. and Lundvall, B. (2001), The Globalizing Learning Economy, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
2. Bontis, N. (2001), "Assessing knowledge assets: a review of the models used to measure intellectual capital", International Journal of Management Reviews, Vol. 3, pp. 41-60.
3. Brown, J.S. and Duguid, P. (1991), "Organizational learning and communities-of-practice: toward a unified view of working, learning, and innovation", Organization Science, Vol. 2, pp. 40-57.
4. Brown, J.S. and Duguid, P. (2001), "Knowledge and organization: a social-practice perspective", Organization Science, Vol. 12, pp. 198-213.
5. Burt, R.S. (2002), "The social capital of structural holes", in Guillén, M.F., Collins, R., England, P. and Meyer, M. (Eds), The New Economic Sociology, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY, pp. 149-90.
6. Clark, B.R. (1998), Creating Entrepreneurial Universities - Organizational Pathways of Transformation, Issues in Higher Education, Pergamon, Oxford.
7. Clark, W.W. (2003), "Science parks: theory and background", International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation, Vol. 2, pp. 150-78.
8. Cohen, W.M. and Levinthal, D.A. (1990), "Absorptive capability", Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 35, pp. 128-52.
9. Dierkes, M., Antal, A.B., Child, J. and Nonaka, I. (Eds) (2001), Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
10. Etzkowitz, H. and Leydesdorff, L. (2000), "The dynamics of innovation: from national systems and 'Mode 2' to a triple helix of university-industry-government relations", Research Policy, Vol. 29, pp. 109-23.
11. European Foundation for Quality Management (2006), "European Quality Award", available at: www.efqm.org/Default.aspx?tabid=25 (accessed 7 June 2006).
12. European Union (1990), Official Journal of the European Union, OJ C186-51/52, 27 July.
13. Gibbons, M., Limoges, C., Nowotny, H., Schwartzman, S.S.P. and Trow, M. (1994), The New Production of Knowledge. The Dynamics of Science and Research in Contemporary Societies, Sage Publications, London.
14. Gourlay, S. (2004), "Knowing as semiosis - steps towards a reconceptualization of 'tacit knowledge'", in Tsoukas, H. and Mylonopoulos, N. (Eds), Organizations as Knowledge Systems: Knowledge, Learning and Dynamic Capabilities, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 86-108.
15. Hansson, F., Husted, K. and Vestergaard, J. (2005), "Second generation science parks: from structural holes jockeys to social capital catalysts of the knowledge societies", Technovation, Vol. 25 No. 9, pp. 1039-49.
16. International Association of Science Parks (2004), available at: www.iaspworld.org (accessed 8 February 2004).
17. Johannisson, B. (1998), "Personal networks in emerging knowledge-based firms: spatial and functional patterns", Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Vol. 10, pp. 297-312.
18. Lindelöf, P. and Löfsten, H. (2003), "Science park location and new technology-based firms in Sweden - implications for strategy and performance", Small Business Economics, Vol. 20, pp. 245-58.
19. Lindholm Dahlstrand, A. (1999), "Technology-based SMEs in the Goteborg region: their origin and interaction with universities and large firms", Regional Studies, Vol. 33, p. 379.
20. Lindholm Dahlstrand, A. and Klofsten, M. (2002), "Growth and innovation support in Swedish science parks and incubators", in Oakey, R., During, W. and Kauser, S. (Eds), New Technology-based Firms in the New Millenium, Vol. II, Pergamon, Oxford.
21. Lundvall, B.. (2002), Innovation, Growth and Social Cohesion. The Danish Model, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
22. M'Pherson, P. and Pike, S. (2001), "Accounting, empirical measurement and intellectual capital", Journal of Intellectual Capital, Vol. 2, pp. 246-60.
23. Marr, B., Gray, D. and Neely, A. (2003), "Why do firms measure their intellectual capital?", Journal of Intellectual Capital, Vol. 4, pp. 441-64.
24. Martin, B.R. and Etzkowitz, H. (2000), "The origin and evolution of the university species", Vest, Vol. 13, pp. 9-34.
25. Massey, D., Quintas, P. and Wield, D. (1992), High-tech Fantasies. Science Parks in Society, Science and Space, Routledge, London.
26. Mønsted, M. (2003), Strategic Networking in Small High Tech Firms, Samfundslitteratur, Copenhagen.
27. Nonaka, I. (1994), "A dynamic theory of organizational knowledge creation", Organization Science, Vol. 5, pp. 14-37.
28. Nonaka, I. and Konno, N. (1998), "The concept of 'ba'. Building a foundation for knowledge creation", California Management Review, Vol. 40, pp. 40-54.
29. Nonaka, I. and Takeuchi, H. (1995), The Knowledge-creating Company. How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation, Oxford University Press, New York, NY.
30. Nonaka, I. and Toyama, R. (2002), "A firm as a dialectical being: towards a dynamic theory of a firm", Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 11 No. 5, pp. 995-1009.
31. Nonaka, I., Toyama, R. and Konno, N. (2000), "SECI, ba and leadership: a unified model of dynamic knowledge creation", Long Range Planning, Vol. 33 No. 1, pp. 5-34.
32. Nowotny, H., Gibbons, M. and Scott, P. (2001), Re-thinking Science. Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty, Polity Press, Cambridge.
33. Pea, I. (2002), "Intellectual capital and start-up success", Journal of Intellectual Capital, Vol. 3, pp. 180-98.
34. Siegel, D.S., Westhead, P. and Wright, M. (2003a), "Science parks and the performance of new technology-based firms: a review of recent UK evidence and an agenda for future research", Small Business Economics, Vol. 20, pp. 177-84.
35. Siegel, D.S., Westhead, P. and Wright, M. (2003b), "Assessing the impact of university science parks on research productivity: exploratory firm-level evidence from the United Kingdom", Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 21 No. 9, pp. 1357-69.
36. Snowdon, K. (2003), "Spin-off and entrepreneurial training model", working paper, University of Newcastle, Newcastle.
37. Storey, D.J. and Tether, B.S. (1998), "Public policy measures to support new technology-based firms in the European Union", Research Policy, Vol. 26, pp. 1037-57.
38. Tsoukas, H. and Knudsen, C. (2003), The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
39. Wenger, E. (2000), "Communities of practice and social learning systems", Organization, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 225-46.
40. Mian, S.A. (1994), "US university-sponsored technology incubators: an overview of management, policies and performance", Technovation, Vol. 14, pp. 515-28.
41. Nonaka, I., Toyama, R. and Byosière, P. (2001), "A theory of organizational knowledge creation. Understanding the dynamic process of creating knowledge", in Dierkes, M., Antal, A.B., Child, J. and Nonaka, I. (Eds), Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 491-517.