14 results on '"Zukauskaite, Elena"'
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2. Innovation in cultural industries: The role of university links
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Zukauskaite, Elena
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- 2012
3. Regional Innovation Policy Beyond ‘Best Practice’: Lessons from Sweden
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Martin, Roman, Moodysson, Jerker, and Zukauskaite, Elena
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- 2011
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4. Global knowledge sourcing in thick and diversified RIS: case studies in Oslo, Malmø and Beijing.
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Wiig, Heidi, Liu, Ju, and Zukauskaite, Elena
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CASE studies ,TECHNOLOGICAL innovations - Abstract
There is an increased need of understanding organizational and institutional underpinnings of firms' global knowledge search. This paper addresses thick and diversified RIS in two different territorial contexts and explores firms' use of physical and virtual space in their search of innovation relevant knowledge. Through interviews with ICT and new media SMEs from Scandinavia (Oslo, Malmö) and Beijing, findings show that low-cost and virtual search space is very important for innovation; furthermore, regional, global and virtual space co-evolve and mutually reinforce each other. Global search strategies differ between the two contexts, emphasizing the importance of a regional institutional-organizational framing supporting trust, collaboration and motivation for global search. In order to reap the benefits of the regional-global-virtual dynamics, being thick and diversified is not enough to have global reach and attractiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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5. Policy learning and smart specialization : Balancing policy change and continuity for new regional industrial paths
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Moodysson, Jerker, Trippl, Michaela, and Zukauskaite, Elena
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Public Administration Studies ,Studier av offentlig förvaltning ,Economics ,policy learning ,innovation policy ,new regional industrial path development ,Nationalekonomi ,Smart specialization - Abstract
This paper seeks to explain what policy approaches and policy measures are best suited for promoting new regional industrial path development and what needs and possibilities there are for such policy to change and adapt to new conditions in order to remain efficient. The paper departs from the notion of Smart Specialization and discusses how regional strategies that are inspired by this approach influence path renewal and new path creation and how they are related to and aligned with policy strategies implemented at other scales (local, regional, national, supranational). Our main argument is that new regional industrial growth paths require both continuity and change within the support structure of the innovation system. Unless smart specialization strategies are able to combine such adaptation and continuity, they fail to promote path renewal and new path creation. Our arguments are illustrated with empirical findings from the regional innovation system of Scania, South Sweden.
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- 2017
6. Shaping smart specialization: the role of place-specific factors in advanced, intermediate and less-developed European regions.
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Trippl, Michaela, Zukauskaite, Elena, and Healy, Adrian
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TECHNOLOGICAL innovations ,INDUSTRIALIZED building ,POLICY sciences ,GOVERNMENT policy ,DEVELOPING countries - Abstract
This paper examines the ways by which organizational and institutional features of regional innovation systems shape smart specialization practices in less-developed, intermediate and advanced regions. Drawing on research from 15 European regions, it shows that the implantation of smart specialization creates challenges in all three types of regions. At the same time, there is evidence that smart specialization supports policy-learning and system-building efforts in less-developed regions and facilitates policy reorientation and system transformation in more advanced regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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7. The multiple roles of demand in new regional industrial path development: A conceptual analysis.
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Martin, Roman, Zukauskaite, Elena, and Martin, Hanna
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RURAL development , *TECHNOLOGICAL innovations , *DIVERSIFICATION in industry , *PHILOSOPHICAL analysis , *GOVERNMENT purchasing - Abstract
This paper contributes to the literature on new regional industrial path development by highlighting the multiple roles that demand can play in regional development. We develop a conceptual framework relating different roles of demand to different types of new path development. Based on the literature on regional development, we differentiate between the role of demand as anonymous consumer, sophisticated buyer, active co-developer, public procurer and norm and value setter. These roles influence different types of new path development, including path extension, path upgrading, path importation, path diversification and path creation. New path development can be triggered by changing norms and values in the society (e.g. environmental concerns and the growing demand for cleaner technologies), public procurement for innovation (governments demand new products or services and thereby steer economic development) or by users modifying existing products or developing novel solutions that are not yet on the market (e.g. user innovations). The various roles of demand, as well as its effect on new regional industrial path development, depend on the geographical context. We argue that taking a nuanced view towards demand will add a novel dimension to the debate on new path development in regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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8. Policy learning and smart specialization: exploring strategies for regional industrial change
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Moodysson, Jerker, Trippl, Michaela, Zukauskaite, Elena, and Cardiff University
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This paper seeks to explain what policy approaches and policy measures are best suited for promoting renewal and transformation in regional economies and what needs and possibilities there are for such policy to change and adapt to new conditions in order to remain efficient. The paper departs from the notion of Smart Specialization, which has become a popular strategy among policy makers recently. We discuss how regional smart specialization strategies influence regional path renewal and path creation and how they are related to and aligned with policy strategies implemented at other territorial scales (local, regional, national, supranational). We distinguish between different levels of policy learning and types of change in relation to path renewal and new path creation. Our main argument is that new regional growth paths require both stability and change within the support structure of the innovation system. Apart from being adaptive and tailor made for the specific preconditions of the regional economy, the regional system must also be resilient and predictable on certain dimensions. Unless smart specialization strategies are able to combine such adaptation and stability, they fail to promote path renewal and new path creation. Our arguments are illustrated with empirical findings from the regional innovation system of Scania, South Sweden.
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- 2015
9. Institutions and the Geography of Innovation: A Regional Perspective
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Zukauskaite, Elena
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Knowledge base ,Sweden ,Scania ,Region ,Social Sciences Interdisciplinary ,Economic Geography ,Innovation System ,Human Geography ,Innovation ,Institutions - Abstract
Economic geographers have long been intrigued by the role of institutions in innovation processes. It has been argued that differences in institutions are among the factors explaining the uneven innovative capacity across and within countries. The regional innovation system approach highlights the interrelationships of firms, universities, governmental authorities and other organizations, as well as how those relations are influenced by the institutional setting in a region. There is a general perception in this stream of literature that institutions do matter. They constitute a legal framework for actions, define communication patterns and influence learning possibilities. However, these studies have been criticized for their lack of discussion of the interaction between institutions at different geographical levels, the relation between individuals and institutions and the impact of changes in the institutional framework on innovation activities. This thesis takes the regional innovation system approach as a point of departure and aims to advance knowledge about the role of institutions (i.e. hinderers vs enablers) in innovation processes within regional innovation systems. It especially focuses on the interaction of different types of institutions at different geographical levels, on how institutional influence changes as an innovation process develops, and on the role of regional authorities in changing institutional conditions for the actors. The theoretical framework relates the insights of regional innovation systems studies to theories of new institutionalism in organizational studies, new and old institutional economics and historical institutionalism. Relating regional innovation systems studies to institutional theories enables conceptualization of institutional diversity within the system. The reference is to different types (e.g. regulative, normative, cognitive) and different geographical levels (e.g. regional, national, global) of institutions which form a complex framework for innovation activities. Organizational diversity is considered by using the knowledge base (i.e. analytical, synthetic, symbolic) approach, which can be applied at industry, firm, and activity levels. The empirical focus of this thesis is on Scania, which is a region in Southern Sweden. Previous studies have analyzed various sub-sets of Scania’s innovation system and highlighted on-going innovation activities in the region. The region is also characterized by organizational diversity including various actors when it comes to a critical knowledge base for innovation activities. Therefore, Scania is a suitable case for the analysis. The findings of this thesis reveal that institutional diversity with boundedly rational diverse actors leads to multiple paths of development within a region. Since institutions have different incentives and functions, they can complement, reinforce or contradict each other while influencing innovation processes. Organizational (i.e. critical knowledge base) and individual (i.e. position in the organization, personal qualities) characteristics lead to different responses of actors to institutional incentives. For example, increasing consumer interest in health issues (changing norm) creates an incentive for firms in the food sector to develop healthy products. When the combination of analytic and synthetic knowledge bases is critical to the innovation activities of firms, they respond to this incentive by developing value added products with health benefits, while firms dominated by the synthetic knowledge base from one field of expertise introduce products which are ‘healthy in a natural way’ – i.e. sugar-free (or reduced sugar) alternatives of juice, cereals, or ketchup. Furthermore, some institutions are more relevant at different stages of innovation processes than others. For example, during the initiation and establishment phases of organizational innovation (i.e. novel organizational form of a research unit) the institutions that hinder a change process are most prominent, since all the decisions related to the formalities of the unit then have to be made. The institutions that are related to benefiting from the results of a change process start playing an important role in a later phase. Policy makers should take institutional and organizational diversity into account when designing regional support programs. Knowledge base characteristics can serve as guidelines for the design of the programs at sectoral level and facilitate fine-tuned implementation at firm level. Awareness of institutional diversity enables the identification of supporting and contradicting institutions, and is necessary to achieve the goals of the programs. This thesis consists of four articles that have been published or submitted to peer-review journals, and an introductory part which presents a theoretical overview and discusses the methodological approach and main conclusions. Syftet med denna avhandling är att skapa en bättre förståelse för vilken betydelse institutioner har för innovationsprocesser inom regionala innovationssystem. Den fokuserar särskilt på hur olika typer av institutioner på skilda geografiska nivåer samspelar; hur institutionell påverkan förändras i samband med att innovationsprocesser utvecklas över tid; samt vilka möjligheter regionala myndigheter och andra politiska aktörer har att förändra de institutionella förutsättningarna för aktörerna inom det regionala innovationssystemet. Avhandlingens teoretiska referensram bygger på tidigare forskning om regionala innovationssystem, nyinstitutionell teori från organisationsforskning, institutionell ekonomi och historisk institutionalism. Denna kombination av relaterade teoretiska infallsvinklar möjliggör en konceptualisering av institutionell mångfald inom det regionala innovationssystemet. Det innebär att man kan ta hänsyn till olika typer av institutioner (t.ex. reglerande, normativa, kognitiva) och institutioner på olika geografiska nivåer (t.ex. regionala, nationella, globala) vilka sammantaget bildar det institutionella ramverk som påverkar innovationsprocesser. Begreppet organisatorisk mångfald förstås här utifrån tre kunskapsbaser (analytisk, syntetisk, symbolisk kunskap) som appliceras på industri-, företags-, och aktivitetsnivåer. Den empiriska analysen fokuserar på Skåne. Analysen visar att det finns flera olika utvecklingsvägar inom regionen vilket förklaras av förekomsten av en institutionell mångfald och en bred uppsättning aktörer. Olika typer av institutioner medför olika typer av incitament och funktioner som kompletterar, förstärker eller motverkar varandra i sin påverkan på innovationsprocesser. Samtidigt reagerar olika aktörer olika på samma institutionella incitament på grund av organisatoriska (kritisk kunskapsbas) eller individuella (position inom organisation, personliga egenskaper) särdrag. Vidare är vissa institutioner mer relevanta än andra under olika faser av innovationsprocesser. Avhandlingens slutsats är att regionala myndigheter bör ta hänsyn till institutionell mångfald när de utvecklar och genomför innovationsstrategier. Medvetenhet om vilken kritisk kunskapsbas som dominerar en viss bransch eller sektor kan ge riktlinjer för utvecklingen av innovationsstrategier på industrinivå samt underlätta dess genomförande på företagsnivå.
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10. Regional Innovation Policy beyond ‘Best Practice’: Lessons from Sweden
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Martin, Roman, Moodysson, Jerker, and Zukauskaite, Elena
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Social Sciences Interdisciplinary ,Human Geography - Abstract
This paper deals with policy measures in the regional innovation system of Scania, Southern Sweden. Focus is dedicated to requirements on innovation policy from actors representing different industries. Previous studies have identified profound differences with regard the organization of knowledge sourcing between firms and other actors in industries drawing on different knowledge bases. In correspondence with these findings, industries differ also with regard to how policy measures aiming to support innovation are perceived and acquired. Despite this, there is a tendency among regional policy programs to base their strategies on one ‘best practice’-model, inspired by successful (or sometimes less successful) cases in other parts of the world. The paper presents an in-depth analysis of such policy support targeting three industries located in one region, and ends with a suggestion to how those should be adapted to render influence on the institutional framework of the regional innovation system.
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- 2010
11. Multiple paths of development: knowledge bases and institutional characteristics of the Swedish food sector.
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Zukauskaite, Elena and Moodysson, Jerker
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FOOD industry , *KNOWLEDGE transfer , *KNOWLEDGE base , *INNOVATIONS in business , *ECONOMIC geography - Abstract
The aim of this paper is to explore the relation between the critical knowledge base of firms and how firms respond to incentives embedded in the institutional framework surrounding them. The analysis gives us a better understanding of the complex development of the food sector in Southern Sweden in the past decades. Theoretically, the paper combines concepts of path dependency and knowledge bases, and applies this framework to a set of development trajectories of firms in the Scanian food sector. Three development paths are identified—path extension, path renewal and new path creation. Findings illustrate that these are rooted in different knowledge base combinations of firms, which make them respond differently to similar place- and sector-specific institutional conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2016
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12. Organizational change within medical research in Sweden: on the role of the individuals and institutions.
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Zukauskaite, Elena
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ORGANIZATIONAL change , *MEDICAL research , *ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc. , *ORGANIZATIONAL resilience , *ORGANIZATIONAL behavior - Abstract
The focus of this paper is on how organizational change within medical research evolves and is influenced by different types of institutions at different geographical levels, as well as what characteristics of the key individuals are important in enacting institutional opportunities and overcoming hindrances. The paper reveals the complexity of institutions influencing change processes. First, the relations between institutions can be complementary, reinforcing or contradicting, suggesting that individuals initiating change should consider possible responses to institutions contradictory to the initial opportunities, as well as take advantage of reinforcing and complementary norms, rules, and procedures. Second, although different types and levels of institutions have a joint impact on change processes, some institutions are more prominent than others in different phases of the process. Individuals can take advantage of institutional opportunities and overcome hindrances due to their personal qualities and position in the organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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13. Institutional Conditions and Innovation Systems: On the Impact of Regional Policy on Firms in Different Sectors.
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Moodysson, Jerker and Zukauskaite, Elena
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TECHNOLOGICAL innovations ,BUSINESS enterprise laws ,COMMERCIAL law ,INDUSTRIAL management ,PRIVATE sector ,ECONOMIC sectors - Abstract
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- 2014
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14. User Participation in Coproduction of Health Innovation: Proposal for a Synergy Project.
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Nygren J, Zukauskaite E, and Westberg N
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Background: This project concerns advancing knowledge, methods, and logic for user participation in coproduction of health innovations. Such advancement is vital for several reasons. From a user perspective, participation in coproduction provides an opportunity to gain real influence over goal definition, design, and implementation of health innovations, ensuring that the solution developed solves real problems in right ways. From a societal perspective, it's a mean to improve the efficiency of health care and the implementation of the Patient Act. As for industry, frameworks and knowledge of coproduction offer tools to operate in a complex sector, with great potential for innovation of services and products., Objective: The fundamental objective of this project is to advance knowledge and methods of how user participation in the coproduction of health innovations can be applied in order to benefit users, industry, and public sector., Methods: This project is a synergy project, which means that the objective will be accomplished through collaboration and meta-analysis between three subprojects that address different user groups, apply different strategies to promote human health, and relate to different parts of the health sector. Furthermore, subprojects focus on distinctive stages in the spectrum of innovation, with the objective to generate knowledge of the innovation process as a whole. The project is organized around three work packages related to three challenges-coproduction, positioning, and realization. Each subproject is designed such that it has its own field of study with clearly identified objectives but also targets work packages to contribute to the project as a whole. The work on the work packages will use case methodology for data collection and analysis based on the subprojects as data sources. More concretely, logic of multiple case studies will be applied with each subproject representing a separate case which is similar to each other in its attention to user participation in coproduction, but different regarding, for example, context and target groups. At the synergy level, the framework methodology will be used to handle and analyze the vast amount of information generated within the subprojects., Results: The project period is from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2022., Conclusions: By addressing the objective of this project, we will create new knowledge on how to manage challenges to health innovation associated with the coproduction process, the positioning of solutions, and realization., (©Jens Nygren, Elena Zukauskaite, Niklas Westberg. Originally published in JMIR Research Protocols (http://www.researchprotocols.org), 09.05.2018.)
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- 2018
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