Innovation symbol systems: Multimodal grammars and vocabularies for facilitating mutual innovation knowledge
dc.contributor.author | Fox, Stephen | |
dc.contributor.author | Moreno, Mariale | |
dc.contributor.author | Vahala, Päivi | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-07T10:54:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-08-07T10:54:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-07-31 | |
dc.description.abstract | Symbol systems can provide topic-specific languages comprising multimodal grammars and vocabularies. Symbol systems can facilitate mutual knowledge for innovation when people do not already have a common language for effective communication about an innovation. For example, there can be a lack of common language among diverse participants at public co-creation workshops: especially when different participants have different perspectives about the same hyped innovation. In this paper, action research is reported, which involved the development of a multimodal symbol system for facilitating mutual innovation knowledge. Overall, this paper provides two principal contributions to the literature. First, criteria for topic-specific symbol systems are set-out with reference to relevant literature. Second, a practical example of a multimodal symbol system, which meets these criteria, is presented. Together, these contributions introduce new directions for research and practice concerned with facilitating mutual innovation knowledge. | en_UK |
dc.identifier.citation | Stephen Fox, Mariale Moreno and Päivi Vahala. Innovation symbol systems: Multimodal grammars and vocabularies for facilitating mutual innovation knowledge. Journal of Innovation and Knowledge, Volume 4, Issue 1, January–March 2019, Pages 12-22 | en_UK |
dc.identifier.issn | 2444-569X | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2018.07.002 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13384 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_UK |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_UK |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | Innovation | en_UK |
dc.subject | Mutual knowledge | en_UK |
dc.subject | Symbol systems | en_UK |
dc.subject | Multimodal | en_UK |
dc.subject | Grammar | en_UK |
dc.subject | Vocabulary | en_UK |
dc.subject | Hype | en_UK |
dc.subject | Distributed manufacturing | en_UK |
dc.title | Innovation symbol systems: Multimodal grammars and vocabularies for facilitating mutual innovation knowledge | en_UK |
dc.type | Article | en_UK |