ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how career mobility influences creative knowledge combination by highlighting the active role of career actors in knowledge-brokering. It argues that movement in space and time triggers a dynamic interplay between actors and contexts and brings about changes in the cognitive frames of individuals and their propensity to connect knowledge across contexts. It employs Bhabha’s (1994) concept of the ‘third space’ to denote the agency space where career actors construct hybrid identities and undertake knowledge-brokering. The study looks at two illustrative examples of hybrids, ‘scientist-entrepreneurs’ and ‘artist-academics’, whose career work straddles the academic and practitioner communities.
