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Making Your Knowledge Mine; Knowledge Transfer Across Industries

HILDA BØ LYNG, PHD STUDENT, UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER

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Pumps and Pipes Conference, Sola Strand Hotell, 17 October 2018

The potential of cross-industry innovation

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Automotive meets gaming

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Vullings & Heleven: “Not invented here”

Baby pram meets landing gear

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Vullings & Heleven: “Not invented here”

Combining Knowledge

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Most innovations are a recombination of existing knowledge. To solve complex problems – firms need to open up for external knowledge

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Knowledge barriers

✓ Different language ✓ Different knowledge and experiences ✓ Different interests and incentives ✓ Different organizational cultures ✓ Different organizational structure ✓ Different routines and methodology

Knowledge barriers

The Dilemma

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How to cross knowledge barriers to reach the potential of cross-industry innovation

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• 1. The

role and nature

• f

analogies in cross-industry innovation

• 2. Making your knowledge mine
• 3. Barriers in cross-industry collaborations

Empirical data

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➢ 7 cases funded by Pumps & Pipes

Norway

➢ Pumps & Pipes Conferences in US

and Norway

➢ Med Tech firms from the Norway

Health Tech Cluster

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Analogies in cross-industry innovation How to present knowledge to people in a highly different industry? Analogies act as a bridge between different knowledge domains

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Classification of analogies

➢ General analogies ➢ Targeted analogies

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General analogies

The Hoover Dam Aortic stenosis

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Targeted analogies

Applications for biofouling in: ➢ Petroleum engineering ➢ Medical devices

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Analogies is a valuable tool for knowledge transfer across industries. If you are new to the

• ther

industry; use analogies based on common knowledge. If you have prior knowledge; use targeted analogies. Level of explicitness

Making your knowledge mine

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Knowledge found in a new industry needs to be integrated and combined with your own knowledge in order to be exploited. Knowledge appropriation process.

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External knowledge

Exploitation New Opportunity Recognition

Knowledge conveyance Knowledge convergence Knowledge Ownership The Knowledge Appropriation Process

Facilitators:

Legitimacy Prior knowledge Willingness

Facilitators:

Retranslation

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“Oil & gas reservoirs” “The cardio- vascular system” “A reservoir model of the circulatory system” IDEA

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To develop ownership actors need to:

• Be supplied with a sufficient

amount of knowledge

• Converge unfamiliar knowledge

with familiar knowledge Knowledge ownership facilitates:

• Exploiting newly acquired

knowledge

• Opportunity discovery in both

source and target domain

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Knowledge barriers are based on

differences

Cognitive Communicational Organizational Social Technological Institutional

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Semantic Barriers

Professional communities develop specific languages Different languages lead to misunderstandings

Different meaning Different languages

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Pragmatic barriers Different interests, perspectives and incentives

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Institutional distance most influential for cross-industry collaborations

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• Language differences of less

importance

• The focus should be to

converge perspectives, interests and incentives to a shared understanding

• High institutional distance

affected cross-industry collaborations the most.

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The best ideas emerge when very different perspectives meet.

Frans Johansson

Hilda Bø Lyng hilda.b.lyng@uis.no +47 97163928

Contact information

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