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Innovation Advising in practice: Four cases where the RAFT model has been used in environmental innovations, and how twenty-one STPs offers Innovation Advising.

Authors: Mikael Johnsson, Sten Ekman, Thomas Karlsson (Munktell Science Park), Magnus Wiktorsson
Source: XXVII IASP World Conference on Science and Technology Parks, 2010, IASP-International Association of Science Parks, Daejeon Convention Center, Korea
 

Abstract

Science and Technology Park’s (STP) often offers business incubators to Idea owners where they can develop ideas into companies. The scope of this paper is a study in how the RAFT-model, a “How to”-model based innovation process, affected four Idea owners with environmental innovations in different business areas. This paper also shows how twenty-one Swedish STPs offer Innovation Advice (IA) to Idea owners and think of IA as a competitive offer. All Idea owners found the RAFT-model useful and consider using the RAFT-model again. Two ideas were still in a developing progress and the other two were shut down. Five of the STPs thought IA as a competitive offer to Idea owners, the others found IA proper to be offered by other organizations. Conclusions from this study are that the RAFT-model was appropriate to environmental innovations and STPs found IA valuable for Idea owners but not as a competitive motive.
 

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{Johnsson_2264:2010,
   author = {Mikael Johnsson and Sten Ekman and Thomas Karlsson and Magnus Wiktorsson},
   title = {Innovation Advising in practice: Four cases where the RAFT model has been used in environmental innovations, and how twenty-one STPs offers Innovation Advising.},
   booktitle = {XXVII IASP World Conference on Science and Technology Parks, 2010},
   month = {May},
   year = {2010},
   publisher = {IASP-International Association of Science Parks},
   url = {http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/index.php?choice=publications&id=2264},
}

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