Complex innovation, organizations, and fields: Toward the organized transformation of today's innovation societies.

Societies are increasingly using innovation as a point of reference, thereby progressively transforming societies into innovation societies. Today, complex innovations are characteristically produced in fields where organizations play significant roles, as prom inent innovation models indicate. However, there is a lack of a conceptual framework to study the interplay between organizations and innovation fields. From a perspective informed by structuration theory, we provide such a research framework, enabling researchers to analyze how organizations increase their relevance by jointly producing innovations in innovation fields as a significant part of the organized transformation of our contemporary innovation societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]