1. An Entrepreneurial University Strategy for Renewing a Declining Industrial City: The Norrköping Way.
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Svensson, Peter, Klofsten, Magnus, and Etzkowitz, Henry
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CITIES & towns , *ENTREPRENEURSHIP , *NATURAL resources , *INFORMATION technology , *BIOTECHNOLOGY , *RENEWABLE energy sources - Abstract
Norrköping, a small urban area formerly dependent upon old labour-intensive industries, has developed a knowledge-based renewal strategy inspired by ideas emanating from its superseded local economy. Using a longitudinal case study, this paper explicates the dynamics of change among a triple helix of university, industry and government actors that involved building consensus within the city and with its neighbouring city of Linköping. The keys to success have been cross-institutional entrepreneurship, aggregating regional and national resources to realize a unique, locally generated strategy rather than adopting the usual list of hot high-tech topics such as information technology, biotechnology or alternative energy, and striking a balance between intra-regional competition and collaboration in order to achieve common objectives and avoid any stasis arising from hyper-competitiveness. This paper utilizes a triple-helix “spaces” framework and makes comparisons with other relevant cases to develop a theoretical model of regional renewal through the hybridization of old and new industrial and knowledge elements. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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