Learning in owner-managed small firms: Mediating artefacts and strategic space

Jones, Oswald; Macpherson, Allan; Thorpe, Richard

doi:10.1080/08985620903171368

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“…The agenda, goals, action plans and technology diffusion assessment frameworks served as common artefacts or 'effective boundary objects' for the members of the coalition who represented different CoPs Duguid 1998, 2001;Wenger 1998Wenger , 2000. Put another way, these artefacts as boundary objects mediated learning amongst participants (Jones, Macpherson and Thorpe 2010).…”

Section: Brokering As Building a Coalition Community Of Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Notably, situated learning theory has been employed previously to better understand strategic learning and development in small firms (Jones, Macpherson and Thorpe 2010) as well as supply chain learning initiatives as vehicles for enhancing entrepreneurship and regional development, involving large procurers and small suppliers (Theodorakopoulos, Ram and Beckinsale 2013).…”

Section: Situated Learning Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Intermediation for technology diffusion and user innovation in a developing rural economy: a social learning perspective

Theodorakopoulos

Bennett

Preciado

2014

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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Technology intermediaries are seen as potent vehicles for addressing perennial problems in transferring technology from university to industry in developed and developing countries.This paper examines what constitutes effective user-end intermediation in a low technology, developing economy context, which is an under-researched topic. The social learning in technological innovation (SLTI) framework is extended using situated learning theory in a longitudinal instrumental case study of an exemplar technology intermediation programme.The paper documents the role that academic-related research and advisory centres can play as intermediaries in brokering, facilitating and configuring technology, against the backdrop of a group of small-scale pisciculture businesses in a rural area of Colombia. In doing so, it demonstrates how technology intermediation activities can be optimised in the domestication and innofusion of technology amongst end-users. The design components featured in this instrumental case of intermediation can inform policy making and practice relating to technology transfer from university to rural industry. Future research on this subject should consider the intermediation components put forward, as well as the impact of such 2 interventions, in different countries and industrial sectors. Such research would allow for theoretical replication and help improve technology domestication and innofusion in different contexts, especially in less developed countries.Keywords -university-to-industry intermediation, regional development, technology transfer, innofusion, situated learning, rural industry. IntroductionRegional development policy in Latin America has been geared toward creating national systems framework is extended by using situated learning theory (Lave and Wenger 1989;Brown and Duguid 1991, 1998Wenger 1998Wenger , 2000Swan, Scarbrough and Robertson 2002) to create a potent analytical lens. The focus here is on the mechanism of a certain type of technology intermediation programmes, i.e. run by academic-related/third sector research and advisory centres, within a low technology/traditional industry sector in a developing economy setting.The level of analysis is a successful intervention programme undertaken by a regional thirdsector intermediary, bringing together academic, local government and pisciculture industry stakeholders. This particular programme was designed to address the lack of technology transfer to small pisciculture agribusinesses, which is deemed as an issue of strategic priority in Colombia, given the importance attached to the expansion of key rural industries (Cruz-Casalias, Medina-Robles and Velasco-Santamaria 2011).The paper is organised as follows. The second section delineates the theoretical background, explicating the constituent elements of situated learning theory used to extend

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Section: Brokering As Building a Coalition Community Of Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Situated Learning Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Intermediation for technology diffusion and user innovation in a developing rural economy: a social learning perspective

Theodorakopoulos

Bennett

Preciado

2014

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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“…with spouses and mentors) play an important role in learning and decision-making processes as they relate to the business (Karataş-Özkan, 2011). Such social relationships can also be the cause of significant conflict and create transformative learning for entrepreneurs (Cope, 2005;Jones, Macpherson and Thorpe, 2010).…”

Section: Social Engagement and Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Student clubs: experiences in entrepreneurial learning

Pittaway

Gazzard

Shore

et al. 2015

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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Student-led clubs that seek to enhance entrepreneurial learning can be found in manyuniversities. Yet, like many areas of extra-curricular activity in entrepreneurship education, their role in supporting learning has not been researched widely. The paper introduces research that addresses this gap and investigates the nature of the learning process student's encounter when they take part in clubs. The study explores the literature on entrepreneurial learning, it examines the different concepts and considers their contribution to understanding student learning experiences. From the literature a conceptual framework is presented, highlighting the key aspects of entrepreneurial learning relevant for the field research. The methodology is introduced, including a series of qualitative studies and a survey of students. The study focuses on two types of student-led clubs 'entrepreneurship clubs' and 'Enactus clubs' and provides a comparative analysis. The findings reported show a range of student learning benefits that simulate important aspects of entrepreneurial learning, such as, learning by doing, learning through mistakes and learning from entrepreneurs. More nuanced findings are also presented showing differences in learning benefits between club forms and heighten benefits for students taking leadership roles. Ultimately the paper contributes to research in entrepreneurship by illustrating how student clubs support entrepreneurial learning.

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“…A recent study by Jones et al (2010) presents the idea of generative learning in global networks stressing that it is a critical step that informs the accumulation of specific and useful knowledge. Tidd & Bessant (2011) contend that AC is about accumulated learning and the embedding of capabilities.…”

Section: Absorptive Capacitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Prior-Learning, Cumulative Science Experiences and the Absorptive Capacity of Bio-Entrepreneurs: A Case of the East Midlands Region, England

Simba¹

2016

JMS

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In the modern healthcare and medical sectors corporate bio-pharmaceutical firms continue to scale down their in-house research and development (R&D) activities in favour of outsourcing the services to bio-tech ventures. These small but, entrepreneurial research-oriented organisations have increased dramatically. They are predominantly owned by bio-entrepreneurs who are extensively experienced scientists. In the science-based industry they operate in, innovation "ecosystems" consisting of global business and social networks are a common feature. As such, they have to consistently exploit them to complement the knowledge gaps in their enterprises. In that context, the paper sets out to investigate five bio-entrepreneurs currently active in biotechnology within the East Midlands region in England. It particularly examines the role performed by their prior-learning and their cumulative science experiences in recognising, assimilating and productively applying science-related knowledge acquired in their innovation "ecosystems".

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Learning in owner-managed small firms: Mediating artefacts and strategic space

Cited by 91 publications

References 134 publications

Intermediation for technology diffusion and user innovation in a developing rural economy: a social learning perspective

Intermediation for technology diffusion and user innovation in a developing rural economy: a social learning perspective

Student clubs: experiences in entrepreneurial learning

Prior-Learning, Cumulative Science Experiences and the Absorptive Capacity of Bio-Entrepreneurs: A Case of the East Midlands Region, England

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