Innovative Agency Flow: The Case Of Whitewater Paddling Community

Elena Chernovich () and Valentina Polyakova ()
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Elena Chernovich: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Valentina Polyakova: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Abstract: This paper investigates the innovation activity in an amateur community. It implements the case study method to analyze the intensive innovation creation process that was going on in the whitewater paddling community during the last two decades of the twentieth century. We apply the notion innovative agency to get a deeper understating of the process of innovation creation, and to identify all actors of innovation. Further we trace the process of innovative agency delegation between actors. We find out that two radical innovations and many incremental innovations emerged in this community. We conclude that their emergence was shaped by creative and competitive environment of the whitewater paddling community.

Keywords: user innovation; amateur community; community innovation; innovative agency; whitewater paddling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 L67 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2014
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Published in WP BRP Series: Science, Technology and Innovation / STI, October 2014, pages 1-19

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