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Entrepreneurial Bricolage — Developing Recipes To Support Innovation

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  • RONALD C BECKETT

    (Swinburne University of Technology, Cnr Wakefield & Williams Streets, Hawthorn 3122, Australia)

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In some large enterprises introducing radical innovation may prove difficult, but introducing a combination of incremental changes may be more practical, particularly in the services sector where existing resources are utilized, and this may be seen as a process of entrepreneurial bricolage. For small resource-limited firms there may be no alternative but to draw on novel combinations of existing resources. The term bricolage comes from a French expression for “tinkering” and this is what it is suggested many innovative SMEs do — learn-by-doing. The notion of entrepreneurial bricolage has been used to describe a process for assembling readily available physical and knowledge assets in novel combinations for a business purpose, creating product and process “recipes”. In this paper, we explore the research question: How can entrepreneurial bricolage be represented as a coherent process?

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  • Ronald C Beckett, 2016. "Entrepreneurial Bricolage — Developing Recipes To Support Innovation," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 20(05), pages 1-17, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:20:y:2016:i:05:n:s1363919616400107
    DOI: 10.1142/S1363919616400107
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