Networks of innovation relationships: multiscopic

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Kaisa Still, VTTJukka Huhtamäki, TUTMartha G. Russell, Stanford mediaXRahul C. Basole, Georgia TechJaakko, Salonen, TUTNeil Rubens, University of Electro-Communications

Networks of innovation

Approach By whom

The shift of innovation from a single firm toward an increasingly network-centric activity

Chesbrough 2003

Importance of collaboration and value co-creation

Ramaswamy and Goullart 2010

Resulting networks of relationships between individual and organizational entities

Kogut and Zander 1996, Vargo 2009

Studies of innovation ecosystems Iansiti and Levien 2004, Russell et al. 2011, Basole et al. 2012, Hwang and Horowitt 2012, Marts et al. 2012

From data with visualization to insights

Boundary specification: nodes and edges

Metrics: for descriptions

Visualization 1: Highlighting enterprise level relationships

Visualization 2:Highlighting growth companies

Visualization 3:Highlighting start-up companies

Visualization 4:Multiscope with aggregated data

Sense-making and storytelling: So what?

• Visualizations of metrics and networks can be seen to model the skeleton of an ecosystem

• Tacit knowledge about networks (and the roles of certain actors) becomes explicit and shared