Arriving at the Dawn of the New Economy: Is Knowledge-Based Industrial Renewal Possible in a Peripheral Region?

Varis, Miika; Tohmo, Timo; Littunen, Hannu

doi:10.1080/09654313.2012.731041

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“…Furthermore, the physical location of the region (Boschma, 2005;Varis et al, 2014;McAdam et al, 2014) was found to reduce the visibility of early stage embryonic technologies to potential funders and international industry partners. This provides new insights into the ability of peripheral regions to embrace quadruple helix structures (as dictated by recent innovation policy, RIS, 2014) within incubation models, where geographical factors impact universities ability to interact with industry and end users (Larsen et al, 2011).…”

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“…Concurring with prior research (Amoros et al, 2013;Harris et al, 2013;McAdam et al, 2014;Varis et al, 2014), being located within a peripheral region was considered to have both advantages and disadvantages. The peripheral region under study had a devolved government which was said to lead to faster decision making and easier access to public funding for incubation activities due to less competition compared to the central region.…”

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Situated regional university incubation: A multi-level stakeholder perspective

McAdam¹,

Miller²,

McAdam

2016

Technovation

121

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From a macro perspective, it is widely acknowledged that University incubation models within a region are important stimulants of economic development through innovation and job creation. With the emergence of quadruple helix innovation ecosystems, universities have had re-evaluate their University incubation activity and models to engage more fully with industry and end users. However, within a given region, the type of University may influence their ability to engage with quadruple helix stakeholders and consequently impact their incubation activity. To date there is a scarcity of research which explores this 'meso' environment and its subsequent impact on University incubation models. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to use a stakeholder lens to explore University Incubation models within unique regional and organisational characteristics and constraints. The research methodology employed was based on a comparative case analysis of incubation of two different Universities within a UK peripheral region. It was found that variances existed in relation to the two universities incubation models which were found to result from both regional (macro environment) and organisational (meso environment) influences (i.e. university type).This research contributes to both regional and national agendas by empirically illustrating the need for appropriate design and tailoring of university incubation models (via acknowledgment of quadruple helix stakeholder influence) to incorporate contextual influences rather than adopting a best practice approach.

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Situated regional university incubation: A multi-level stakeholder perspective

McAdam¹,

Miller²,

McAdam

2016

Technovation

121

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“…Overall, the knowledge transfer and the commercialization of knowledge is considered problematic and ineffective in peripheral RIS (Karlsen et al, 2011). Focusing on structural change in traditional industries, Varis et al (2012) suggest knowledge-intensive firms as an instrument of regional policy to increase the level of innovativeness in peripheral regions.…”

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Knowledge-Intensive Business Services as Credence Goods - A Demand-Side Approach

Feser

Proeger

2015

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract: Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) constitute a major source of innovative knowledge for small-and medium-sized enterprises. In regional innovation systems, KIBS play a crucial role in distributing innovations and improving the region's overall innovative capacities. While the specific properties and effects on client firms and sectors have been comprehensively discussed, the internal perspective of client firms, i.e. the processes and problems in selecting, using, evaluating and recommending KIBS, has been neglected to date. Using a qualitative approach, we describe the internal mechanisms and problems of SMEs cooperating with various KIBS and discuss the implications for regional innovation systems from a policy-making perspective. We find that all stages of cooperation of SMEs and KIBS are characterized by strong information asymmetries, distrust and uncertainty about the effects of using external know-how, which yields the interpretation that SMEs perceive KIBS as credence goods. While informal networks are used to reduce information barriers, they regularly prove counterproductive by disseminating worst-case examples. Regional policy aiming at developing instruments for fostering innovative cooperation could thus strengthen formal networks that primarily create trust between KIBS and SMEs to systematically reduce mutual suspicions and information asymmetries. Terms of use: Documents in

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“…Specific factors for regional knowledge management were studied well in the past. For example, knowledge as a key component of a region's development [18], [19], industrial development in the peripheral regions on the basis of knowledge management [20] and formation of knowledge infrastructure for the purpose of developing a region's innovative activities [21] are components of the triple helix, interactions in the space of institutional areas [1].…”

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Innovative Activities in a Region in the Conditions of the Development of the Digital Environment

Babskova*¹,

Nadezhina²,

Zaborovskaya³

2019

IJITEE

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In the conditions of the development of the digital environment, innovative activities become a priority area of economic development that draws not only substantial material and financial resources but also human capital. The existing models designed to assess innovative activities in a region do not give an assessment of conditions for innovative activities. The study aims to develop methods for the assessment of conditions for innovative activities in a region based on a complex consideration of knowledge management factors that allow determining priority areas of regional policy in the digital environment. With regard to the study problems, the authors used a set of basic general scientific methods: comparison, analysis, synthesis, systemization, formalization, statistical estimation, economic mathematical modeling, methods of verifying the reproducibility of the models used on calculation examples. The model presented in the article allows the authors to evaluate the very conditions of innovative activities from the position of knowledge management factors in the conditions of the digital environment. The model's practical application makes it possible to define priority areas for the development of the innovative sector. This, in turn, promotes the formation of the digital environment. The study results have been tested on the example of Russian constituent entities.

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Arriving at the Dawn of the New Economy: Is Knowledge-Based Industrial Renewal Possible in a Peripheral Region?

Cited by 33 publications

References 53 publications

Situated regional university incubation: A multi-level stakeholder perspective

Situated regional university incubation: A multi-level stakeholder perspective

Knowledge-Intensive Business Services as Credence Goods - A Demand-Side Approach

Innovative Activities in a Region in the Conditions of the Development of the Digital Environment

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