Governance and innovation dynamics in a technopole. The role of institutional innovation practices
Our research aims to identify the role of technopole governance in order to create an environment, which supports and enables business innovation. We extend recent work on cluster governance by mobilizing the concept of institutional work, with a view to highlighting levers (political, normative and cognitive) and practices implemented by the technopole governance to stimulate innovation at the collective level. Our findings, based on a case study – the French technopole Savoie Technolac – show that a weak mobilization of political and normative practices slows down the building of legitimacy for the technopole, whereas the implementation of cognitive practices positively influences the dynamics of learning and innovation.