Facilitating technological systems of innovation: The role of intermediary organizations

This research is mean to contribute to explain the formation process of Technological Innovation System from the perspective of an established European form of organizational intermediation, called the Living Labs. Previous studies on has studied intermediation from social network perspective (Burt, 1992), principal agent theory (Braun 1993) and theory on market brokerage (Khurana, 2002). This study of intermediary organizations, however, attempts to contribute to the literature on TSI (Carlsson, 1995; Bergek et al., 2008) by explaining the circumstances under which intermediaries, usually combinations of public-private partnerships, contribute with the transfer of knowledge and formation of a new technological systems as well as their role including users into the creation and development of a new groups of technologies.