Innovation through Collaboration : Interactive learning in nutrigenomics consortia

Abstract

Interactive learning has been a central concept in innovation studies since the 1980s and its infl uence on innovation has been shown in numerous studies since then. Interactive learning is of special importance in emerging technologies like nutrigenomics in which complementary, often tacit knowledge has to be exchanged and combined in order to learn and innovate. However, suffi cient insight into the black box of the interactive learning process was lacking thus far. In this book Rens Vandeberg constructs a Framework for Interactive Learning in Emerging Technologies and explores this framework in nutrigenomics consortia. The developed framework encompasses not only the interactive learning outcome, but also the interactive learning process itself and the conditions that infl uence the interactive learning process. The resulting insights provide new means for the stimulation of interactive learning, knowledge creation and innovation management.