From cluster to process: New economic geographic perspectives on practices of knowledge creation

Ibert, Oliver; Hautala, Johanna; Jauhiainen, Jussi S.

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.06.023

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“…Third, from a process perspective, the presented findings underpin the mobile and multi‐local character of innovation (Ibert et al ; Butzin & Widmaier ). Each of the four innovations has – at least temporarily – left OCLs.…”

Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 76%

“…Economic geography is increasingly interested in knowledge creation from a process perspective (Bathelt & Cohendet ; Ibert et al ; Butzin & Widmaier ). Instead of starting from a given territory and investigating innovative activities therein, a process perspective uses ‘space as an analytical lens’ (Ibert et al , p. 323) exploring, for instance, specifics of different forms of interaction for knowledge creation (Bathelt & Turi ; Grabher & Ibert ) or time‐spatial pathways of innovations (Ibert & Müller ; Butzin & Widmaier ). Two interrelated discussions within this strand are of particular importance for this paper.…”

Section: Situating Open Creative Labs In Economic Geography Interestementioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, during the last years an increasing number of studies has been dedicated to so far under‐researched actors such as consumers (Grabher et al ) or ‘outsiders, actors who have not sufficient institutional embedding’ (Lange & Bürkner , p. 99). At the same time, economic geography increasingly explores innovation as a mobile and multi‐local process (Ibert et al ; Butzin & Widmaier ). Both strands seem to mutually stimulate each another.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘And Since I Knew About the Possibilities There …’: The Role of Open Creative Labs in User Innovation Processes

Brinks

2019

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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Open spaces for experimentation and innovation are receiving growing attention from economic geography and beyond. They are discussed as new material settings for temporarily working on projects and ideas. Moreover, individual users are increasingly regarded as potential innovators who might benefit from "Open Creative Labs" and the (shared) resources provided there. This paper situates Open Creative Labs within the research strands of user innovation and the geography of knowledge creation and explores how Open Creative Labs have been used in four specific user innovation processes. On the basis of innovation biographies, it is reconstructed how Open Creative Labs concretely influenced the pathways of innovation. In all innovation processes, Open Creative Labs have been resources of innovation. In two cases, they can also be regarded as their local sources.

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2019

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“…This means that an empirical approach must recognize the sense of 'becoming' in analyzing a case (De Roo, 2010). Therefore, in our empirical analysis we aim to stress the interrelatedness of various processes and focus more on the process of development than an end result (see Ibert, Hautala, & Jauhiainen, 2015). We argue that a qualitative methodological approach, exploring the development of leisure and the institutions involved in leisure, can shed light on the interactions central to its development and include the contextual and temporal setting (see Martin & Sunley, 2015).…”

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Adaptation, interaction and urgency: a complex evolutionary economic geography approach to leisure

Meekes

Buda

Roo

2017

Tourism Geographies

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Local and regional governments in western European peripheral areas aim to spur leisure-led regional development. We explore planning for leisure by applying an evolutionary economic geography (EEG) approach from a complexity perspective. We identify conditions which enable and constrain leisure development and its effects on the region as a whole. This means combining the local level of individual adaptations with the institutional setting and with the regional scale. We examine the Dutch province of Fryslân and explore by means of case study analysis how current leisure development processes can be explained in a complex evolutionary manner. We explore economic novelty as a result of individual adaptations; how such adaptations through interactions create emerging spatial patterns; how these spatial patterns form self-organizing new types of order; and the way this process is dependent on previous paths whilst also creating new pathways. Our findings show that although development is dependent on individual adaptations often stemming from a few actors, for such adaptations to have an effect on the region requires a connectivity between actors and a sense of urgency amongst those actors. Using a complex EEG approach allows us to explain leisure-led regional development as the product of these conditions. This can help planners deal with the complexity and unpredictability of this process, focusing not on a desired end goal as such, but on creating the conditions in which a more autonomous development can take place.

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“…The literature on the geography of innovation experience in these years a shift in focus from the meso-level to micro-level processes (Butzin & Widmaier, 2016;Davids & Frenken, 2017;Ibert, Hautala, & Jauhiainen, 2015;Ibert & Müller, 2015;Rusten & Overå, 2014;Strambach & Klement, 2012). This trend places the process of knowledge creation in the centre and explores its spatiotemporal configurations as they unfold throughout the innovation process.…”

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confidence: 99%

Changing locus of innovation: a micro-process approach on the dynamics of proximity

Tanner

2018

European Planning Studies

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The literature on the geography of innovation suffers from a lack of attention to temporal aspects of proximity in innovation processes. Consequently, an emerging literature on knowledge creation processes has appeared to address this shortcoming. This paper adopts this perspective and develops an integrated framework for understanding knowledge creation and proximity dynamics across phases of the innovation process (idea generation, problemsolving and implementation). Geographical proximity plays a role in all stages of the innovation process, but its form varies. Three innovation biographies from the Danish wind power industry serve as principal examples of this integrated framework. It is demonstrated that innovation processes can be multilocational, meaning innovative activities are stretched in space and may take place at multiple sites.

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From cluster to process: New economic geographic perspectives on practices of knowledge creation

Cited by 36 publications

References 63 publications

‘And Since I Knew About the Possibilities There …’: The Role of Open Creative Labs in User Innovation Processes

‘And Since I Knew About the Possibilities There …’: The Role of Open Creative Labs in User Innovation Processes

Adaptation, interaction and urgency: a complex evolutionary economic geography approach to leisure

Changing locus of innovation: a micro-process approach on the dynamics of proximity

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