Sustainable development platforms and methods for construction innovation and managing common pool resources

Clustered innovation networks, capable of delivering Regional Innovatin Systems (RIS) are important for individual regional prosperity within the new innovation economy. Local accesss to sustainably managed common pool resoources (CPR) can provide a basis for constructing innovation-based advantages that deliver economic, environmental and socio-cultural benefits to regioal communities. The Sustainable Development Platform Method (SDPM) is a newly developed is a newly developed policy tool for community-based involvement in CPR management that networks and embeds institutional relationships to overcome unique regional dilemmas and innovation inhibitors and develop inimitable and non-substitutable resource configurations. The SDPM is an adaptation of the Regional Development Platform Method and is the result of case study empirical research conductred in regional Tasmania. The SDPM involves nine phases, being (1) sustainability audit, (2) comparative analysis, (3) community/network analysis, (4) institutinalised governance design, (5) futurescaping, (6) platforms identification, (7) RIS conceptualisation, (8) core process identification, and (9) knowledge management