Direction or mediation? Nexus’ role in technology adoption Online publication date: Thu, 13-Oct-2011
by Max Regenfelder; André P. Slowak
International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development (IJISD), Vol. 5, No. 2/3, 2011
Abstract: Despite a nowadays rich tradition in evolutionary socio-economic studies, historic Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) studies and sociological studies, we find a research gap in explaining how collaborative R&D consortia initiate technological change at the regulatory arena. We refer to those consortia as social groups. In the observed R&D project, firms established a new organisation as nexus between collaborative research and policymakers. Their aim is to shape both technology and selection environment. That nexus incorporates firms promoting two different competing technological trajectories; thus, its policy mandate is ambiguous.
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