This chapter seeks to answer the following question: In what way is Illeris’s Learning Triangle useful for analyzing learning processes within a new field of practice? The chapter explores the content, incentive, and social interaction dimensions of Illeris’s classical learning theory through a meta-analysis of an innovation lab. The original research project intended to facilitate entrepreneurial learning. The analysis at hand strives to illustrate the theoretical analytical perspective of the learning triangle and extends the model for the given context. Findings are re-analyzed according to the participants´ learning processes. For the analysis, I used interview and protocol material out of an innovation lab research project that took place in German welfare organizations in 2018/2019. For this study, I have analyzed the learning dimensions of content, incentive and social interaction. I adapted Illeris’s learning triangle, renaming the environment dimension into organization and incorporating the innovation lab as the learning situation and the home organization as the organizational situation. The society becomes another layer surrounding the situation. With its grounding in classical learning theories, the learning triangle can enable a detailed perspective for the diverse discourse of entrepreneurial learning and innovation labs. From this perspective, this research contributes to a learning theory basis for learning arrangements in work-related organizational studies and those of human resources. At the end of this chapter, the reader has learned about (a) innovation labs as new fields of practice and (b) how the model of the learning triangle can be fruitful to analyze learning processes, in this case, entrepreneurial learning. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.
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