THE DESIGN OF KNOWLEDGE GOVERNANCE FOR COLLECTIVE EXPLORATION: THE CASE OF IAR CLUSTER IN THE NEW BIO-BASED ACTIVITIES

摘要

Collective exploration is a particular collective action for innovation. It is characterized by a lack ofknowledge that has to be created and high uncertainty. The governance of these relationships is thus critical. How toorganize collective exploration for knowledge creation in the context of cluster competitiveness for new bio-basedactivities, is the purpose of the present article.We advance that knowledge creation needs special governance functions and mechanisms. Different spaces ofknowledge exchange have to be governed using complementary mechanisms to create knowledge.