Rethinking the Social in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Edited by Beniamino Callegari, Oslo New University College and Kristiania University College, Norway, Bisrat A. Misganaw, NEOMA Business School, France and Stefania Sardo, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

• Contents:Preface x1 Introduction to Rethinking the Social in Innovation andEntrepreneurship Studies 1Beniamino Callegari, Bisrat A. Misganaw and Stefania SardoPART I THE CONTEXTUAL APPROACH2 Entrepreneurial team formation, task allocation in newventures and the theory of imprinting 26Bisrat A. Misganaw3 Exploring the social dimension of regional industrial restructuring 43Jan Ole Rypestøl4 Collective resources in entrepreneurship:a reconceptualisation of resource mobilisation 67Karin Wigger and Thomas Lauvås5 Innovation and adaptation strategies during the front-endphase of an industry downturn 89Jakoba Sraml Gonzalez6 “Is that my problem?” A study of motivation forknowledge sharing 113Stian BragtvedtPART II THE IDENTIFICATION APPROACH7 Playing around with the ‘rules of the game’: socialentrepreneurs navigating the public sector terrain in pursuitof collaboration 133Mikhail Kosmynin8 Integrating responsible research and innovation into smartspecialization: a question-machine approach 152Nhien Nguyen, Jens Ørding Hansen, Are Jensen andCarlos Álvarez Pereira9 Making a thousand diverse flowers bloom: drivinginnovation through inclusion of diversity in organisations 174Marte C.W. SolheimPART III THE ESSENTIALIST APPROACH10 Schumpeter’s social ontology: before and beyond pure economics 191Beniamino Callegari11 The naturalized disharmony of a socio-technical system:understanding safety in the oil and gas drilling industry 210Stefania Sardo12 Interactions in innovation processes of medical devices:systemic and network perspectives 234Olga MikhailovaIndex

‘If you want to be inspired by novel ideas, written by the next generation of innovation and entrepreneurships scholars, coming out of the Norwegian Research School in Innovation, then this is the book for you. It focuses on the SOCIAL in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Studies, and the book’s 12 chapters are organised in three sections representing different approaches. It covers topics from entrepreneurial team formation and the theory of imprinting, diversity and innovation to responsible research and innovation in smart specialisation strategies. This is an engaging and timely book that offers key insights into important aspects of contemporary innovation and entrepreneurship studies. It should be a first choice for reading lists of master students in innovation and entrepreneurship studies as well as for others who want to be informed by fresh ideas of young scholars.’