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Title: Second International Seville Seminar on Future-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA): Impacts on policy and decision making 28th- 29th September 2006


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Second International Seville Seminar on
Future-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA)
Impacts on policy and decision making28th- 29th
September 2006
Foresight in the Context of industrial cluster
the case of Italian Districts
Claudio Roveda and Riccardo Vecchiato
Politecnico di Milano and Fondazione Rosselli
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Foresight in the context of Industrial
Clusters the case of Italian Districts
Agenda
Paper Structure
  • Innovation in industrial clusters
  • Foresight and Innovation in an industrial
    cluster
  • The Knowledge generation helix and the
    knowledge generation company
  • Concluding remarks

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Foresight in the context of Industrial
Clusters the case of Italian Districts
Innovation in industrial clusters
Introduction
  • Many studies have pointed out that in a local
    industrial system innovation is the output of
    exchange of more or less formalised knowledge
    among various actors, which interact and
    cooperate on the basis of mutual trust and
    acceptance of shared values.
  • These interactions involve
  • firms
  • universities and public and private research
    centres
  • banks
  • trade associations
  • local governments.

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Foresight in the context of Industrial
Clusters the case of Italian Districts
Innovation in industrial clusters
The knowledge creating helix (Nonaka)
  • The local economic and social systems strongly
    interact in the creation and dissemination of
    innovations by means of the production of both
    explicit (or coded) and tacit (or contextual)
    knowledge, through the following learning
    processes
  • socialization of tacit knowledge
  • articulation of tacit knowledge into explicit
    knowledge
  • combination of explicit knowledge
  • internalization of explicit knowledge into the
    operational processes, with the production of new
    tacit knowledge.

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Foresight in the context of Industrial
Clusters the case of Italian Districts
Innovation in industrial clusters
The transfer of knowledge and the generation of
innovations
  • Translation of knowledge generated outside the
    district in a local language
  • Coding and decoding of knowledge by means of
    an integrative process based on communication
  • Dissemination of new knowledge and new
    technology through different steps
  • - assessing feasibility of innovation
  • - raising awareness
  • - investing financial and human resources
  • - following the leaders.

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Foresight in the context of Industrial
Clusters the case of Italian Districts
Foresight in an industrial clusters
Research questions
  • Given the features of the innovation process in
    an industrial cluster
  • How can Foresight foster the process of mutual
    learning between the main stakeholders of the
    district?
  • How can Foresight be used for acquiring new
    coded knowledge from outside the district?
  • Outlining our experience with foresight
    methodologies in the silk district of Como and
    the metal-mechanic district of Lecco
  • Interactive Workshop and Critical technology
    list
  • Scenario Building

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Foresight in the context of Industrial
Clusters the case of Italian Districts
Foresight in an industrial clusters
Interactive Workshop and Critical technology list
  • identifying emerging technologies
  • setting up cooperation between entrepreneurs and
    technologists
  • promoting incremental innovation by means of
    technologies that are at an intermediate phase of
    their life cycle

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Foresight in the context of Industrial
Clusters the case of Italian Districts
Foresight in an industrial clusters
Scenarios
  • fostering radical innovations
  • exploring the future of the overall
    socio-economic and industrial system of the
    district
  • socialising the tacit knowledge about the future
    of the district, through the participation of all
    the main local stakeholders
  • articulating the tacit knowledge, by building
    the scenarios

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Foresight in the context of Industrial
Clusters the case of Italian Districts
Comparing the knowledge creating company
The main strengths of Japanese companies
according to Nonaka
  • Nonaka (The knowledge creating company, 1995)
    points out three main features of Japanese
    companies at the basis of their international
    competitiveness
  • the deep sense of membership of the workforce
  • the redundancy
  • the interactions among senior managers, middle
    managers and frontline employees

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Foresight in the context of Industrial
Clusters the case of Italian Districts
Comparing the knowledge creating company
The role of Foresight for the knowledge creating
helix in industrial clusters (1)
  • it fosters the commitment of Small and medium
    entrepreneurs to their district
  • it creates redundancy for side technologies

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Foresight in the context of Industrial
Clusters the case of Italian Districts
Comparing the knowledge creating company
The role of Foresight for the knowledge creating
helix in industrial clusters (2)
  • It drives small entrepreneurs, district
    stakeholders, medium and large companies to play
    the critical roles of Nonakas frontline
    employees, senior managers and middle
    managers the first ones grasp what the district
    is the second ones build the vision of what it
    ought to be the third ones serve as a bridge.

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Foresight in the context of Industrial
Clusters the case of Italian Districts
Concluding remarks
  • Foresight can be an effective tool for promoting
    innovation in industrial clusters, by
  • Simple and flexible methods for incremental
    innovation
  • Scenario building for radical innovation

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Second International Seville Seminar on
Future-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA)
Impacts on policy and decision making28th- 29th
September 2006
Foresight in the Context of industrial cluster
the case of Italian Districts
Claudio Roveda and Riccardo Vecchiato
riccardo.vecchiato_at_polimi.it
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