ENTREPRENEURIAL BRICOLAGE — DEVELOPING RECIPES TO SUPPORT INNOVATION

Ronald C Beckett ()
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Ronald C Beckett: Swinburne University of Technology, Cnr Wakefield & Williams Streets, Hawthorn 3122, Australia

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2016, vol. 20, issue 05, 1-17

Abstract: 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?

Keywords: Innovation; bottom-up; recombination; entrepreneurs; SMEs; resource-constrained; bricolage; networks; iterative learning; business models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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