Proximity of Practice: Student-Practitioner Collaboration in Tourism

Carina Bregnholm Ren, Szilvia Gyimóthy, Martin Trandberg Jensen, Dejan Krizaj, Miha Bratec

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Abstract

There is a widespread acknowledgement among European policy-makers that higher education may potentially contribute to enhancing competitiveness of tourism. This has led to a sheer explosion of specific measures encouraging knowledge transfer with the private sector. Despite the importance of knowledge flow processes, the role of universities and students has been little researched or linked to the understanding of innovation defectiveness in tourism. Followed by a critical review of knowledge transfer and learning processes in generic development and tourism literature, the chapter presents an illustrative case from an innovation course on a Danish Master program in tourism. The case describes and discusses challenges in working with, creating and implementing innovation through student-practitioner collaboration. It is argued that successful innovation is not solely, as previously argued in innovation literature, conditioned by either geographical or social/relational proximity, but also by what we have termed proximity of practice.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelHandbook of Research on Innovation in Tourism Industries
RedaktørerGry Alsos, Dorthe Eide, Einar Lier Madsen
Antal sider23
UdgivelsesstedCheltenham
ForlagEdward Elgar Publishing
Publikationsdatomar. 2014
Sider325-348
Kapitel14
ISBN (Trykt)9781782548409
ISBN (Elektronisk)9781782548416
DOI
StatusUdgivet - mar. 2014
Udgivet eksterntJa

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