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5. Global knowledge sourcing in thick and diversified RIS: case studies in Oslo, Malmø and Beijing.

Author

Wiig, Heidi, Liu, Ju, and Zukauskaite, Elena

Subjects
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]

Published
2021
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8. Shaping smart specialization: the role of place-specific factors in advanced, intermediate and less-developed European regions.

Author

Trippl, Michaela, Zukauskaite, Elena, and Healy, Adrian

Subjects
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]

Published
2020
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9. Policy learning and smart specialization : Balancing policy change and continuity for new regional industrial paths

Author

Moodysson, Jerker, Trippl, Michaela, and Zukauskaite, Elena

Subjects
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.

Published
2017

14. Policy learning and smart specialization: exploring strategies for regional industrial change

Author

Moodysson, Jerker, Trippl, Michaela, Zukauskaite, Elena, and Cardiff University

Subjects
G1
Abstract

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.

Published
2015

17. Creating institutional preconditions for knowledge flows in cross-border regions

Author

Miörner, Johan, Zukauskaite, Elena, Trippl, Michaela, and Moodysson, Jerker

Abstract

In recent years, we have witnessed an intensive scholarly discussion about the limitations of traditional inward looking regional innovation strategies. New policy approaches put more emphasis on promoting the external connectedness of regions. However, the institutional preconditions for collaboration across borders have received little attention so far. The aim of this paper is to investigate both conceptually and empirically how policy network organizations can target the institutional underpinnings and challenges of cross-border integration processes and knowledge flows. The empirical part of the paper consists of an analysis of activities performed by four cross-border policy network organizations in the Öresund region (made up of Zealand in Denmark and Scania in Sweden) and how they relate to the creation of institutional preconditions and the removal of institutional barriers. Our findings suggest that cross-border policy network organizations have limited power to change or facilitate the adaptation of formal institutions directly. They mainly rely on mobilizing actors at other territorial levels for improving the formal institutional conditions for knowledge flows. Informal institutions, on the other hand, can be targeted by an array of different tools available to policy network organizations. We conclude that institutional preconditions in cross-border regions are influenced by collective activities of multiple actors on different territorial levels, and that regional actors mainly adapt to the existing institutional framework rather than change it. For innovation policy, this implies that possibilities for institutional change and adaptation need to be considered in regional innovation policy strategies.

Published
2018
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18. Multiple paths of development: knowledge bases and institutional characteristics of the Swedish food sector.

Author

Zukauskaite, Elena and Moodysson, Jerker

Subjects
*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]

Published
2016
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