Assessing the Value of Regional Innovation Networks

Schoonmaker, Mary; Carayannis, Elias G.

doi:10.1007/s13132-009-0004-9

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“…The requirement to include specific types of organisations, thus imposing a minimum amount of heterogeneity, could encourage participants to gain experience in initiating and managing relationships with partners possessing different competencies, cognitive frames and modes of operation. For example, for SMEs trapped in knowledge lock-ins or needing to renew their approach to innovation, contacts with universities could improve their chance to encounter new knowledge (Malerba, 2009) or to exploit existing knowledge (Schoonmaker and Carayannis, 2010;Arroyabe et al, 2015). However, it is precisely such companies that are most reluctant to create relationships (Kleinknecht and Reijnen, 1991).…”

Section: Policy Requirements and Networking Behaviourmentioning

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Networked by design: Can policy requirements influence organisations' networking behaviour?

Rossi

Caloffi

Russo

2016

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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An important, but under-researched, question in relation to policies funding networks of innovators is:what kind of innovation networks should be supported, if the policy objective is not just to sponsor successful innovation projects, but also to encourage the participants to form networks with desirable characteristics? Focusing on a set of policy programmes implemented by the regional government of Tuscany, in Italy, between 2002 and 2008, aimed at funding networks of collaborating organisations, we investigate whether the imposition of requirements on the composition of the networks that would be eligible for funding -in particular, the demand that networks should comply with minimum size and heterogeneity thresholds -influenced the participants' networking behaviour in the context of successive policy interventions. Our results show that these requirements immediately affected the size and composition of the project networks that applied for funding, although not always in the intended direction. However, these effects did not extend to the successive periods, when those requirements were no longer in force. This suggests that the imposition of policy requirements, per se, is unlikely to induce persistent changes in organizations' networking behaviour. Other approaches such as implementing outreach actions in order to encourage new organisations to participate in existing innovation networks and to form new ones, and additional measures designed to foster learning opportunities for the participants, might be more effective tools to influence the networking behaviour of participating organisations.

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Section: Policy Requirements and Networking Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

Networked by design: Can policy requirements influence organisations' networking behaviour?

Rossi

Caloffi

Russo

2016

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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“…2 Some other authors insist on individual factors like local culture [24], regional innovation networks [25][26][27], risk-taking behavior, motivation, personal characteristics [28,29], governmental policies [5], and familiarity with the sector [30] because "a person working in an industry is more likely to identify a market gap" [31, p. 229]. Johnson and Cathcart [32] provide evidence that more than 57% of the founders of manufacturing firms have started their business in the same sector in which they were formerly employed.…”

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Factors Influencing Entrepreneurial Process and Firm Start-Ups: Evidence from Central Greece

Vliamos

Tzeremes

2011

J Knowl Econ

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Over the last two decades, technological changes have reformed business environment and made entrepreneurial activity as the main channel behind knowledge spillovers and knowledge creation. Therefore, the factors affecting entrepreneurial activity will indirectly affect knowledge transmission. This paper examines those factors influencing the entrepreneurial process by analyzing the results of 164 questionnaires distributed in the region of Thessaly (central Greece). In addition, by using nonparametric techniques, this paper establishes three different factors that appear to have dominant influence on the entrepreneurial process. The first factor is related to entrepreneurial skills, education, and previous experience, whereas the second factor is related to issues regarded desire of independence and locus of control. Finally, the third factor, which influences the entrepreneurial activity, is related to the access of capital, to social aspects, and to regions' institutional environment.

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“…Może być ona ponadto postrzegana jako konsekwencja ciągu zdarzeń i działań, które odbywają się na przestrzeni czasu, niejednokrotnie w długim jego horyzoncie. Istotne jest to, iż zaczyna się od koncepcji dotyczącej "czegoś" nowego, natomiast tym "czymś" najczę-ściej jest produkt bądź usługa 26 . Jest ona również wyrażana jako sposób myślenia, postrzegania oraz postępowania, skoncentrowany na poszukiwaniu szans 27 .…”

Section: Pojęcie Przedsiębiorczości I Przedsiębiorcyunclassified

“…Warte odnotowania jest istotne znaczenie inkubatorów przedsiębior-czości w kontekście ich wielopłaszczyznowej współpracy z innymi podmiotami, do których zaliczyć można samorządy terytorialne, uczelnie wyższe, biznes, tudzież przemysł 26 . W tym kontekście wspomniana organizacja jest synonimem nie tylko budynku i infrastruktury 27 , stanowi ona także całokształt procesów w niej zachodzących, a także podmiotów i jednostek zaangażowanych w jej funkcjonowanie, do których zaliczyć można m.in.…”

Section: Pojęcie Inkubatorów Przedsiębiorczościunclassified

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Uwarunkowania skuteczności działania inkubatorów przedsiębiorczości

Świeszczak¹

2016

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Assessing the Value of Regional Innovation Networks

Abstract: Biotechnology, Information and communication technologies, Regional innovation networks, Technology transfer and commercialization, Intangible assets, Risk capital,

Cited by 22 publications

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Networked by design: Can policy requirements influence organisations' networking behaviour?

Networked by design: Can policy requirements influence organisations' networking behaviour?

Factors Influencing Entrepreneurial Process and Firm Start-Ups: Evidence from Central Greece

Uwarunkowania skuteczności działania inkubatorów przedsiębiorczości

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