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Managing Innovation Fields in a Cross-Industry Exploratory Partnership with C-K Design Theory

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  • Thomas Gillier

    (ERPI - Equipe de Recherche sur les Processus Innovatifs - UL - Université de Lorraine, EDF R&D - EDF R&D - EDF - EDF, MINATEC IDEAs Laboratory - CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives)

  • Gérald Piat

    (EDF - EDF, createam - EDF R&D - EDF R&D - EDF - EDF)

  • Benoît Roussel

    (ERPI - Equipe de Recherche sur les Processus Innovatifs - UL - Université de Lorraine)

  • Patrick Truchot

    (ERPI - Equipe de Recherche sur les Processus Innovatifs - UL - Université de Lorraine)

Abstract

For a few decades now, firms have had to innovate in cooperation with other organizations. According to the literature on co-innovation, a new form of innovation partnership is now emerging: the exploratory partnership. This type of partnership is the most often established in the early stages of the design process and faces high levels of uncertainty and instability. This paper deals with a strategic design tool, OPERA, based on a recent general design theory named C-K theory. That theory models design reasoning by suggesting a fundamental distinction between concepts (propositions about novel objects) and knowledge (propositions about known objects). According to the theory, the interaction and co-evolution of concepts and knowledge is the main engine through which design progresses. The paper proposes to extend that theory to understand and to act in innovation community context. OPERA enables power holders and design teams to drive innovation projects by providing them with an overview of explored and unexplored concepts and of the activation and production of skills and knowledge. This cartographic system was tested by MINATEC IDEAs Laboratory, a Cross-Industry Exploratory Partnership, over a 15-month period. The innovative platform is composed of partners from different sectors (e.g., energy, technology research center, sports, telecommunications) and aims to build innovative projects and to devise new products and services based on micronanotechnologies. Facing such diversities, actors of MINATEC IDEAs Laboratory used OPERA to see how each project is progressing, the contribution of each project to the global exploration process, and the complementarities between the projects. Such representations enable the committee to identify the main value of a project, any knowledge gaps and the synergies between projects. From a collective point of view, OPERA permits to MINATEC IDEAs Laboratory's members to indicate their favorite concepts and knowledge areas and to estimate converging and diverging interests.

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  • Thomas Gillier & Gérald Piat & Benoît Roussel & Patrick Truchot, 2010. "Managing Innovation Fields in a Cross-Industry Exploratory Partnership with C-K Design Theory," Post-Print hal-00586603, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00586603
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5885.2010.00758.x
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    1. Thomas Gillier & Sophie Hooge & Gérald Piat, 2013. "Framing the scope of value in exploratory projects: An expansive value management model," Post-Print hal-00824354, HAL.
    2. Jean-Claude Boldrini & Guy Caverot & Maxime Ezequel, 2017. "The journey in Open Innovation to develop a SME: A longitudinal case study in a French robotics company," Working Papers halshs-01502720, HAL.
    3. Thomas Gillier & Akın Kazakçı & Gérald Piat, 2014. "The generation of common purpose in innovation partnerships: a design perspective," Post-Print hal-00982992, HAL.
    4. Quentin Plantec & Pascal Le Masson & Benoît Weil, 2022. "Mécanismes de découvertes – inventions dans la recherche industrielle : aux origines de CRISPR-Cas9 dans l’industrie agroalimentaire," Post-Print hal-03727323, HAL.
    5. Brun, Juliette & Jeuffroy, Marie-Hélène & Pénicaud, Caroline & Cerf, Marianne & Meynard, Jean-Marc, 2021. "Designing a research agenda for coupled innovation towards sustainable agrifood systems," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 191(C).
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    7. Pascal Le Masson & Patrick Cogez & Yacine Felk & Benoit Weil, 2012. "Revisiting Absorptive Capacity with a Design Perspective," Post-Print hal-00870353, HAL.
    8. Fabien Jean & Pascal Le Masson & Benoit Weil, 2014. "Convince me or commit me? Avoid the cognitive trap induced by Non-Human Actors in early stages of NPD," Post-Print hal-00976059, HAL.
    9. Thomas Gillier & Gérald Piat, 2011. "Exploring over the Presumed Identity of Emerging Technology," Grenoble Ecole de Management (Post-Print) hal-00641765, HAL.
    10. Thomas Gillier & Akin Osman Kazakçi & Gérald Piat, 2012. "The Generation of Common Purpose in Innovation Partnerships : a Design Perspective," Grenoble Ecole de Management (Post-Print) halshs-00718287, HAL.
    11. Sophie Hooge & Kevin Levillain & Ludivine Guérineau & Anne Bion-Robin & Julie Gautier, 2016. "Designing exploratory partnerships in Southeast Asia: The challenge of building a sustainable ecosystem to address chronic malnutrition," Post-Print hal-01364198, HAL.
    12. James, Steffan & Liu, Zheng & White, Gareth R.T. & Samuel, Anthony, 2023. "Introducing ethical theory to the triple helix model: Supererogatory acts in crisis innovation," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 126(C).
    13. Paris Chrysos, 2011. "An organisational design approach of business environments: the case of Barcamps milieu in Paris," Post-Print halshs-00796937, HAL.
    14. Pascal Le Masson & Chris Mcmahon, 2016. "Armand Hatchuel et Benoit Weil La théorie C-K, un fondement formel aux théories de l'innovation," Post-Print hal-01243331, HAL.
    15. Quentin Plantec & Pascal Le Masson & Benoit Weil, 2019. "The role of participating in user-driven research projects on scholar's academic performances: a model through C-K design theory," Post-Print hal-02165721, HAL.
    16. Jimmi Normann Kristiansen & Frank Gertsen, 2015. "Is Radical Innovation Management Misunderstood? Problematising The Radical Innovation Discipline," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 19(06), pages 1-23, December.
    17. Sophie Hooge & Marine Agogué & Thomas Gillier, 2012. "A new methodology for advanced engineering design: Lessons from experimenting C-K Theory driven tools," Post-Print hal-00696985, HAL.
    18. Plantec, Quentin & Deval, Marie-Alix & Hooge, Sophie & Weil, Benoit, 2023. "Big data as an exploration trigger or problem-solving patch: Design and integration of AI-embedded systems in the automotive industry," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 124(C).
    19. Jean-Claude Boldrini & Nathalie Schieb-Bienfait, 2015. "Collectively exploring the potential of technology derived from university research: the NanoMem case," Working Papers hal-01208517, HAL.
    20. Thomas Gillier & Akin Osman Kazakçi & Gérald Piat, 2012. "The Generation of Common Purpose in Innovation Partnerships : a Design Perspective," Post-Print halshs-00718287, HAL.
    21. Kokshagina, Olga & Gillier, Thomas & Cogez, Patrick & Le Masson, Pascal & Weil, Benoit, 2017. "Using innovation contests to promote the development of generic technologies," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 114(C), pages 152-164.
    22. Marc Barbier & Pauline Caron & Pascal Le Masson & Franck Aggeri, 2012. "The sustainable fibres of generative expectation management: The “building with hemp” case study," Post-Print hal-01117313, HAL.
    23. Thomas Gillier & Sophie Hooge & Gérald Piat, 2013. "Framing the scope of value in exploratory projects: An expansive value management model," Grenoble Ecole de Management (Post-Print) hal-00824354, HAL.
    24. Thomas Gillier & Gérald Piat, 2011. "Exploring over the Presumed Identity of Emerging Technology," Post-Print hal-00641765, HAL.
    25. Elodie Gardet & Pierre-Laurent Felix, 2013. "Methods for distributing results in exploratory partnerships," Post-Print hal-01287002, HAL.

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