Innovation and Collaboration in the DNA of a Cultural Industry: Craft Beer in Baja California

Cabrera-Flores, Mayer; León-Pozo, Alicia; Durazo-Watanabe, Eduardo A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-99590-8_9

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“…One of the most visible attempts has been the effort to brand the region as ‘Cali Baja’ (merging of the names of the US California and the Mexican Baja California), through a federally funded initiative launched in 2008 and aiming at supporting the development of a competitive bi-national mega-region. Local business organizations, for example in the food and beverage sector, have used the brand to market their products and claimed that it has supported entrepreneurial and business opportunities in the CBR and intensified cross-border knowledge flows (Cabrera-Flores et al, 2019; Nunez and Musteen, 2020). They also argue that the brand has facilitated economic integration in the CBR by helping companies to attract foreign investment in order to enlarge production and enhance product development (Castillo-Villar, 2020; Mendoza and Dupeyron, 2020).…”

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Bringing borders back into cross-border regional innovation systems: Functions and dynamics

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International boundaries have been mainly considered as barriers in literature on the ‘cross-border regional innovation system’ (CBRIS), in line with their traditional understanding. In this paper, we underline that such a perspective presents limits, and argue in favour of an understanding of multidimensional borders that are subject to dynamic change over time. By mobilizing conceptualizations from the field of border studies, we examine the various functions of borders to explain the innovation-led development potential in cross-border regions. In this view, international borders can function as an interface, a marker of difference or a symbol, rather than a mere barrier that separates regions. Further, we suggest that these border functions are key factors in explaining the ‘fluctuating’ integration dynamics of regional innovation systems across the border. Mobilizing evidence from two case studies in European and North American contexts, the paper sheds light on the border as a potential resource for innovation and discusses implications for future research.

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