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By Madeline Smith at the 12th TCI Global Conference, Jyväskylä 2009
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Madeline SmithHead of Innovation, EKOS
Learning ClustersTCI 2009
What do we mean by Learning Clusters
How can Clusters Learn?
Why should they learn?
Challenges to overcome?
o External Environment
o Internal behaviours
Focus for this week
Doing(sensing)
Reflecting(perceiving)
Linking(intuition)
Planning(judging)
KOLB D A (1984) Experiential Learning: experience as the source of
learning and development
Why are we here?
TCI
o Share experiences
o Learn from others
o Take something back
Good intentions fail
o Real world intervenes
o “Day job”
o Difficult to change what we do
Cluster’s Environment
Is it a good environment for growth?
• Money – Financial Capital
• Skills – Human Capital
• Knowledge – Intellectual capital
• Access to Markets – Market Capital
• Things – Physical Capital
• Networks – Social Capital
Clusters are ...
Subject to changes in external environment
Affected by changing customer expectations
Must learn to adapt and evolve
Listen to those at the edge – early signals
Learning organisations
By nature open and collaborative
Share knowledge
Learn from each other
Learning to work in different way
Clusters – Innovative Communities
Communities are driven by (one or more):
Innovation Communities exhibit cohesion in some + diversity in others
Innovation is often expressed at a communities’ ‘edges’
Purpose
PassionPlace
Perspective
Trust
Beyond Open Innovation, Dames, Robson, Smith & Tumulty, 2007
Building Trust
Very important
Very difficult
Trust is necessary precondition for collaboration – in practice the suspicion rather than trust is the starting point.
Difficulties in collaboration“Seeking collaborative advantage is a seriously resource-consuming activity, so is only to be considered when the stakes are really worth pursuing…don’t do it unless you have to” (Huxham and Vangen, 2005)
Stimulation andAcquisition of
relevant research and development
L5 FUTURE FOCUS LOOP
Performance of individual firms
Overall performance of all firms in the
zone
Intensity of differentiated
competitive performance
Motivation for competitive innovation
Degree of enhancement of
competitive innovation
Competitive level of
platform for innovation
Sharing of critical sectoral
knowledge
Extent of collaborative
initiatives
Extent of shared response to
common challenges
L1 INTER-FIRM RIVALRY LOOP
L2 INTER-FIRM CO-OPERATIONLOOP
Global competition and external market
pressure
Type of cultural context
L3 COLLABORATIVEADVANTAGE
LOOP L4 VENTUREATTRACTIVENESS
LOOP
Collection – Cooperation - Collaboration
Competitive power of cluster
Smith and Brown, Local Economy, June 2009
The Cluster Dynamic Loops
Proactive not Reactive
Look further ahead
Anticipate dips
Catch and ride the nextwave
Speed of change ever faster
Challenging our ability to learn fast enough
Innovation needed
o When speed of change > Ability to learn
Act
ivit
y
+
Horizon 2Horizon 1 Horizon 3
Innovation . . . 3 Horizons
Improve the
current
Envision the
possible
Nurture the
emergent
Sustaining innovation Transformative innovation
Disruptive Innovation
David Robson, Head of Energy and Environment Foresight
Learning to change
Insanity = doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Insanity = doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Insanity = doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Insanity = doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein
How do we recognise good ideas
Our current “world view” restricts our ability to learn
Cognitive Bias / Cognitive Frameworks
Visible
Challengeable
Fluid
Hidden
Un-challengeable
Rigid
Intelligence & Information
Analysis Hypotheses
Mental models Assertions
Beliefs Assumptions
Time
Cognitive
Framework
Barriers to Learning
Points of view
You do not have the full picture
Diverse groups learn quicker
Diverse groups perform better
Learning clusters
We need to
Be open and collaborative
Value external input
Collective learning is more effective
Look for other perspectives – to complete the picture
Challenge our cognitive barriers – “same as usual” is not good enough
Be ready to do things differently
Revisit on Friday
Madeline Smith
Head of Innovation
EKOS Ltd
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 141 353 1994
www.ekos-consultants.co.uk
