TY - JOUR
T1 - Arts and design as translational mechanisms for academic entrepreneurship
T2 - The metaLAB at Harvard case study
AU - Simeone, Luca
AU - Secundo, Giustina
AU - Schiuma, Giovanni
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This paper proposes arts and design as translational mechanisms to connect and align stakeholders, particularly in the context of academic entrepreneurship where multiple stakeholders with different expertise and interests work together in joint endeavors. Insights gathered from an ethnographic investigation carried out at metaLAB - an academic laboratory located at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA) - build the empirical foundation. Findings show that various forms of arts and design (including poetry, photography, art installations, motion graphics videos, data visualization) play an important role in connecting metaLAB to external stakeholders and in activating multiple value drivers. The adoption of arts- and design-based initiatives allows the translation of different needs and wants of stakeholders into shared meanings, but also supports emotional and cognitive engagement and creative and divergent viewpoints. This paper contributes to existing studies focusing on how arts-based initiatives can support organizations in exploiting their potential for organizational value creation.
AB - This paper proposes arts and design as translational mechanisms to connect and align stakeholders, particularly in the context of academic entrepreneurship where multiple stakeholders with different expertise and interests work together in joint endeavors. Insights gathered from an ethnographic investigation carried out at metaLAB - an academic laboratory located at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA) - build the empirical foundation. Findings show that various forms of arts and design (including poetry, photography, art installations, motion graphics videos, data visualization) play an important role in connecting metaLAB to external stakeholders and in activating multiple value drivers. The adoption of arts- and design-based initiatives allows the translation of different needs and wants of stakeholders into shared meanings, but also supports emotional and cognitive engagement and creative and divergent viewpoints. This paper contributes to existing studies focusing on how arts-based initiatives can support organizations in exploiting their potential for organizational value creation.
KW - Academic entrepreneurship
KW - Arts and design initiatives
KW - Knowledge translation
KW - Organizational value creation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85042457897&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.10.021
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.10.021
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0148-2963
VL - 85
SP - 434
EP - 443
JO - Journal of Business Research
JF - Journal of Business Research
ER -