Embeddedness and decoupling in innovation activities

Michel Grossetti ()
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Michel Grossetti: LISST - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Solidarités, Sociétés, Territoires - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - UT2J - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès - UT - Université de Toulouse - ENSFEA - École Nationale Supérieure de Formation de l'Enseignement Agricole de Toulouse-Auzeville - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INP - PURPAN - Ecole d'Ingénieurs de Purpan - Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) - UT - Université de Toulouse

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Abstract: The text first present the method of quantified narrations, developed to evaluate embedding effects. Then i reports on the results of a survey on collaborations between laboratories and companies, which shows that if embeddedness isimportant in the initial contacts and the design of projects, it is then in tension with decoupling processes that tend to partially restore the control of collaborations to formal organizations. Afterward, it mentions a survey of start-ups and the evolution of interpersonal relations in access to resources, which reveals a similar phenomenon of initial embedding followed by partial decoupling. It concludes with some more general considerations on embedding and decoupling.

Date: 2018-07
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Published in Economic Sociology (European Electronic Newsletter), 2018, 19 (3), pp.19-24

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