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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 12-22 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Journal of Innovation and Knowledge |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- innovation
- mutual knowledge
- symbol systems
- multimodal
- grammar
- vocabulary
- hype
- distributed manufacturing