Towards a servitization of innovation networks: a mapping

ABSTRACT

This article is dedicated to a consideration of the tertiarization of innovation networks. While the concept of traditional innovation network has been the object of an extensive literature, new expressions of the innovation network appear in a service economy: in particular Public Private Innovation Networks in Services, Market Service Innovation Networks, Public Service Innovation Networks and Public Service Innovation Networks for Social Innovation. They reflect the rise of market and non-market services and of the public-private relationship in collaborative innovation. Based on a literature survey, this article investigates these different expressions of innovation networks and sheds light on the different roles played by public services in each of them.

KEYWORDS:

• Public services
• market services
• innovation
• networks

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

1. ServPPIN: The contribution of public and private services to European growth and welfare, and the role of public-private innovation networks, FP7-SSH project 2008–2011.

2. COVAL: Understanding value co-creation in public services for transforming European public administrations, H2020 project 2017–2020.

3. There are also public-public networks, but they are generally research rather than innovation networks.

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Funding

This work was undertaken within the EU-funded COVAL project [770356]; ‘Understanding value co-creation in public services for transforming European public administrations’, H2020 project 2017-2020.

Notes on contributors

Benoît Desmarchelier

Benoît Desmarchelier is Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Lille. Previously, he was Lecturer in Economics at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Benoît’s research efforts focus at understanding complex systems dynamics in order to get new insights on the drivers of aggregate economic phenomena.

Faridah Djellal

Faridah Djellal is Professor of Economics, former Dean of the Faculty of economics and sociology and member of the academic council of Lille University. She is currently President of the ‘Innovation, Labour’ Committee at the French National Research Agency. She is member of RESER (European Association for Research on Services) and Vice-President of RNI (Research Network on Innovation). Faridah Djellal is the author or co-author of more than 80 articles in scientific journals or books and of 11 books.

Faïz Gallouj

Faïz Gallouj is Professor of Economics and Editor-in-Chief of the European Review of Service Economics and Management. He has authored or co-authored 160 articles that have been published in scientific journals and books and 40 research reports for different national and international institutions (including OECD, European Commission). He is also the author, co-author or editor of 17 books on services and innovation.