Creating Collaborative Advantage

Hans Christian Garmann Johnsen is a professor in the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Agder in Norway. Professor Garmann Johnsen is a specialist in the study of working life and innovation. He has an MBA from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and gained his PhD at the Copenhagen Business School. He has been a visiting scholar and fellow at several universities including UC Berkeley and Cornell in the USA. For 15 years Garmann Johnsen has been involved in a national research programme into collaborative innovation. He has written and presented papers and authored journal articles published worldwide. Richard Ennals is Professor of Corporate Responsibility and Working Life at the Centre for Working Life Research, Kingston Business School, Kingston University in the UK. He is a visiting professor at the Swedish Royal institute of Technology, and a director of the UK Work Organisation Network. He is Vice-Chair of the World Council for Total Quality and Excellence in Education. Ennals is Review Editor of the journal AI and Society and has himself authored many books, papers and journal articles.

• Collaborative Advantage in Regional Economies; Part I: Programmes for Collaboration; Chapter 1: Collaboration, Autonomy and Constructivist Society; Chapter 2: Managing Collaborative R&D Programmes; Chapter 3: Collaborative Advantage in Small Regional Economies; Chapter 4: A Collaborative Economic Model – the Case of Norway 1; Part 2: Governing Regional Development through Collaborative Networks; Chapter 5: Strategy Development in Knowledge Cities Revisited – The Roles of Innovation Strategy in Helsinki Metropolitan Area Explored; Chapter 6: The Collaborative Steering Dilemma of Network-based Development; Chapter 7: Raufoss – Creation of Collaborative Advantage; Chapter 8: Regional Collaboration; Chapter 9: Creating New Opportunities, Exploiting Possibilities and Learning From Differences; Part 3: Collaboration in Regional Innovation Systems; Chapter 10: Innovation and the Role of Diversity in the Globalising Knowledge Economy; Chapter 11: Changing Regional Collaborative Relations in a Global Economy; Chapter 12: Social Capital, Knowledge Flows and Collaboration. Example from the Agder Region, Norway; Chapter 13: Regional Innovation Networks and University-based Technology Transfer; Part 4: Collaboration as Strategy in and Between Organisations; Chapter 14: Researching Collaborative Advantage; Chapter 15: Improving the Commercialisation Probability of Publicly Funded Co-operative R&D Project Outputs; Chapter 16: The University–industry Interface; Chapter 17: Collaboration in Business to Business Relationships in a Three-tier Supply Chain; Chapter 18: Managing Innovation through Communication; Concluding Reflections