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WHITE SPACES INNOVATION IN SWEDENpharmaceuticals competitor and STS 4, the Swedish functional food company that successfullycommercialised ProViva. Hence, distant, relational networking brought innovativeknowledge recombination opportunity to a specific agro-food firm operating ingeographical proximity to the biopharmaceutical knowledge source.Figure 4.5 Innovation Biography Pro VivaCo-evolutionary Transition Model: Niche>Regime>Landscape forHuman Insulin & Functional Food (Source: After Geels, 2006)Polymerase Chain ReactionSTS 1CHIRONSTS 2GENENTECHCompeting Human InsulinDominant Insulin DesignNOVOSTS3NOVODIABETESSTS 4ProVivaProbiotic DrinksSource: Centre for Advanced StudiesDiesel Distressed JeansPunk fashion in the UK can be traced to the ripped jeans, torn t-shirts, spiky haircuts,and worn and torn leather jackets sported by members of the Sex Pistols. When theyreleased Anarchy in the UK in 1976, The Sex Pistols were dressed by Malcolm McLaren,their manager, whose wife Vivienne Westwood owned a clothes store called „Let ItRock‟ in the Kings Road, Chelsea area of London. These styles can be traced back furtherto New York artists at the Andy Warhol Factory or bands such as the Velvet Underground,Patti Smith Group, Ramones or New York Dolls. Until the turn of the denimwheel towards skinny and/or elaborately embroidered jeans in 2010, the dominant jeansfashion 2000-2009 was for a seriously „distressed‟ aesthetic. To observe the process bywhich the distressed look was achieved was an exercise in observing „creative destruction‟in action (Cooke et al, 2007, Chapter 4). This involved sourcing indigo denimjeans (and jackets), then exposing them to a multi-stage division of labour to „distress‟them. This might begin with special enzyme-tolerant coatings being applied to the fa-94