Bypassing Structural Shortcomings: Innovative Firms in Peripheral Regions

Graffenberger, Martin

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-1190-1_12

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“…Margarian et al (2017) show, based on a survey of the food sector in Lower Saxony, that innovation activities are primarily influenced by the educational level of the workforce. This is in line with results that point to the importance of internal capacity-building for firms in peripheral areas (Graffenberger, 2019). Also, the most innovative companies in peripheral locations are those which are significantly more oriented towards external markets (Margarian, 2017).…”

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How Knowledge-Based Local and Global Networks Foster Innovations in Rural Areas

Tuitjer¹,

Küpper²

2020

Journal of Innovation Economics &Amp; Management

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Section: Knowledge and Networking In Rural Innovationsupporting

confidence: 85%

How Knowledge-Based Local and Global Networks Foster Innovations in Rural Areas

Tuitjer¹,

Küpper²

2020

Journal of Innovation Economics &Amp; Management

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“…Finally, substandard living conditions in small towns and the countryside are also being debated, most recently regarding the example of prefabricated socialist housing and the state funding for renovation (Hindre, 2019;Kährik and Väiko, 2020). Following the trend toward neoliberal regional policy, other development strategies focus on enabling the endogenous potential of regions, such as the creative utilisation of local resources for firm innovation (Graffenberger, 2019), community engagement (Noorkõiv, 2016), place image (Plüschke-Altof and Grootens, 2019), heritage culture (Annist, 2013), place leadership (Grootens, 2019;Kindel and Raagmaa, 2015) and rural tourism (Raagmaa and Noorkõiv, 2013). As these strategies are often based on self-employment or micro-enterprises, they are supported by projectbased funding schemes on a national and EU level (e.g.…”

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Socio-spatial polarisation and policy response: Perspectives for regional development in the Baltic States

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Burneika

Noorkõiv³

et al. 2021

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Based on a relational understanding of socio-spatial polarisation as a nested, multidimensional and multi-scalar process, the paper applies a comparative perspective on current trends of socio-spatial development in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Comparing current scholarship and data on demographic and economic processes of centralisation and peripheralisation, we also examine political debates around issues of polarisation in different scholarly national perspectives. Despite variations in national discourses, our comparative perspective conveys strong similarities between the three Baltic countries in terms of socio-economic and demographic concentration in the capital regions to the disadvantage of the rest of the country. The analysis of regional policies further points to tensions between a concern for territorial cohesion on the one hand, and an adherence to the neo-liberal logic of growth and competitiveness against the backdrop of post-socialist transition on the other hand. An overview of case studies in the three countries shows a common reliance on endogenous resources to foster local development, conforming to the neo-liberal logics of regional policy. However, these strategies remain niche models with different levels of success for the respective regions and also among the populations in the region. As a result, we argue for a stronger role of regional policy in the Baltic countries that goes beyond the capital regions by better addressing the negative consequences of uneven development.

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Less-advanced regions in EU innovation networks: Could nanotechnology represent a possible trigger for path upgrading?

Calignano,

Jørgensen Nordli

2024

PLoS ONE

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This paper examines whether nanotechnology projects funded under the European Union (EU) Framework Programmes (FPs) are a possible trigger for path upgrading (i.e., infusion of new technologies in existing traditional sectors) in less-advanced regions. First, the adoption of cluster analysis and a set of key indicators (i.e., technological intensity, scientific excellence, human capital, and research and development expenditure) allowed us to distinguish between 79 more-advanced and 127 less-advanced EU regions. Subsequently, through social network analysis and nonparametric testing we were able to demonstrate how the less-advanced EU regions (average degree centrality: 40.5) play a marginal role compared with the more-advanced ones (average degree centrality: 98.5) in the nanotechnology network created within Horizon 2020—i.e., the EU programming cycle implemented in the 2014–2020 period. Despite this, we observed that a few less-advanced regions (33 out of 127) were able to score higher than the EU median in terms of participation in the targeted nanotechnology network, thus benefiting from relevant knowledge flows potentially leading to re-industrialization processes. The adoption of qualitative comparative analysis allowed us to determine which combinations of key innovation, scientific and socioeconomic factors could facilitate such beneficial interregional interactions and related knowledge exchange in these types of regions (i.e., primarily what we defined as “relative innovativeness,” excellence in nanotechnology research and a comparatively high level of gross domestic product per capita). Our empirical results provided some clear policy implications. For instance, the necessity to I) remove the barriers impeding a more balanced participation to promote a widespread renewal of traditional industries in less-advanced regions and II) implement coordinated EU and domestic actions designed to encourage the involvement of the great majority of the less-advanced regions, which remain marginal in the periodically launched FPs.

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Bypassing Structural Shortcomings: Innovative Firms in Peripheral Regions

Cited by 3 publications

References 32 publications

How Knowledge-Based Local and Global Networks Foster Innovations in Rural Areas

How Knowledge-Based Local and Global Networks Foster Innovations in Rural Areas

Socio-spatial polarisation and policy response: Perspectives for regional development in the Baltic States

Less-advanced regions in EU innovation networks: Could nanotechnology represent a possible trigger for path upgrading?

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