Innovation systems in motion: an early music case

Abstract

Purpose: This study provides an in-depth understanding of the innovation system and the learning processes involved in a very specific cultural field: the production of early music. Methodology:A single case study of the generic value chain in the music production industry describes and analyses the process and the actors involved in editing a new early music collection resulting from the collaboration between a record company and a public research organization. Findings:There is a need for new knowledge in the various stages of performance and publication of a new recording. The early music sector is a knowledge-intensive, science-driven sector that can be characterized as a system because the interactions among actors substantially influence final products. Research limitations/implications:The single case study represents a specific sector within the music industry. However, its conclusions can be applied to other fields in the cultural heritage sector. Originality/value:The literature on innovation in the cultural field primarily focuses on the relationship between art and information and communication technology (ICT). This paper is novel in analysing a case where scientific knowledge is key to new product development, and suggesting that we need to take account of the interactions among cultural heritage entities, universities and other knowledge production organizations. It concludes that these organizations should be involved institutionally in other aspects of the innovation process.

Analysing innovation in museums through qualitative comparative analysis

“…Although studies about creative industries tend to state that they are characterised by a combination of symbolic and synthetic knowledge bases (Asheim & Hansen, 2009;Klein, 2011;Van Tuijl & Carvalho, 2014;Plum & Hassink, 2014), in this paper we argue that in some activities, this combination (unrelated variety) mainly occurs between symbolic and analytical bases (Castro-Martínez, Recasens, & Jiménez-Sáez, 2013;Ingstrup et al, 2017). Therefore, in the conservation of restoration processes in museums, innovation is explained by the analytical knowledge base, both as unrelated variety (combined with the symbolic base) and as related variety (diversity of qualifications with analytical knowledge base).…”

Assessing the role of collaboration in the process of museum innovation

“…For example, Castro-Martínez and Fernández-Baca Casares (2012) assert that value-adding innovative products and services result, fundamentally, from extensive collaboration between cultural organizations and diverse knowledge providers at the production, distribution and consumption stages in Spanish heritage institutions. Such collaboration was also observed in new product development in the music industry: "new early music collection is the result of the collaboration between a record company and a public research organization" (Castro-Martínez et al 2013).…”

“…Collaboration is a pattern of action that often requires actors to cooperate with both insiders, e.g., workers in cross-functional teams, and outsiders from outside of the organisation to look for new knowledge (Granados and Pareja-Eastaway, 2019) and thus, fostering a networked environment to achieve some complex goals (Thomson et al 2009), such as innovation. Because collaboration can be better at motivating effort and can allow creative people to work on projects more efficiently than would traditional mechanisms (Benkler, 2006), there is an increasing argument that collaboration could be an effective organisational strategy for improving project performance and innovation in a wide range of sectors, for example, from agriculture (Compagnucci and Spigarelli, 2018) and manufacturing (Schroth and Häußermann, 2018) to service (Ruiz-Torres et al, 2018), and cultural and creative sectors (Castro-Martínez, Recasens and Jiménez-Sáez, 2013;Li and Ghirardi, 2018). In addition, a recent study pointed out that there are inverted U-shaped relationships between collaboration breadth and radical innovation performance and between collaboration depth and incremental innovation performance (Kobarg, Stumpf-Wollersheim and Welpe, 2019), which further reinforces such argument that collaboration can foster innovation.…”

Multi-actor innovation in the music industry: a state of the art review

“…As an example, the study of Castro-Martínez et al (2013) has provided an explanation regarding: music business context, focusing primarily on the innovation systems through business and management context; the actors contributed in the innovation process, that is, record label, concert hall and music artists; the music products that were generated from the early music production; the concepts of 'collaboration', 'partnership' and 'agreement'; physical and digital platforms that are mainly used to conduct the innovation, i.e. recording studios, internet; and actors who are responsible for creating and capturing the value, that is, music producer, record label, artists and music consumers.…”