Abstract:Knowledge, resources and markets: what economic system of valuation?, Regional Studies. Exploring in ever more detail learning processes at the root of economic change, main territorial innovation models (TIMs) remain focused on production today. Thus consumption is most often assessed as an abstract demand expressed by exogenous market mechanisms. In a socio-institutional approach, this article conceptualizes an economic system in which knowledge is a constructed resource valued in a market through the co-ev… Show more
“…To unpack the nature of interpath linkages in a regional context, we thus follow Sandén and Hillman (2011) and Bergek et al (2015) and differentiate between two key dimensions, the market dimension (demand side) and the asset dimension (referring here to assets required for developing novel products and solutions, reflecting the supply side). Incorporating both dimensions into the analysis is crucial and well in line with recent calls in the innovation studies literature to complement conventional production-side driven explanations of innovation-based path development by accounts of the demand side and processes through which novel products or technologies become a valuable solution for users (Jeannerat and Kebir 2016). Binz and Truffer (2017) note that market access, financial investment, and legitimacy are key elements of such valuation processes.…”
Section: The Nature and Strength Of Interpath Linkages In Regional Comentioning
“…To unpack the nature of interpath linkages in a regional context, we thus follow Sandén and Hillman (2011) and Bergek et al (2015) and differentiate between two key dimensions, the market dimension (demand side) and the asset dimension (referring here to assets required for developing novel products and solutions, reflecting the supply side). Incorporating both dimensions into the analysis is crucial and well in line with recent calls in the innovation studies literature to complement conventional production-side driven explanations of innovation-based path development by accounts of the demand side and processes through which novel products or technologies become a valuable solution for users (Jeannerat and Kebir 2016). Binz and Truffer (2017) note that market access, financial investment, and legitimacy are key elements of such valuation processes.…”
Section: The Nature and Strength Of Interpath Linkages In Regional Comentioning
“…Yet, lifecycle concepts have also been criticized on various grounds, some of which are of key significance for the locational dynamics of emerging cleantech industries. We here focus on one key line of thought, which posits that the literature has emphasized the supply side (manufacturing processes and the emergence of dominant designs), while downplaying the demand side (market diffusion and the active construction of new market segments) and knowledge network's role in the spatial dynamics of new industries (Jeannerat and Kebir, 2016;Malerba, 2006;Murmann and Frenken, 2006). A key open question in lifecycle literature accordingly is whether and how spatial shifts in manufacturing activities co-evolve with shifts in knowledge networks and market deployment (Malerba, 2006).…”
Section: Existing Theories On Spatial Lifecycle Dynamics In New Indusmentioning
New industries develop in increasingly globalized networks, whose dynamics are not well understood by academia and policy making. Solar photovoltaics (PV) are a case in point for an industry that experienced several shifts in its spatial organization over a short period of time. A lively debate has recently emerged on whether the spatial dynamics in new cleantech sectors are in line with existing industry lifecycle models or whether globalization created new lifecycle patterns that are not fully explained in the literature. This paper addresses this question based on an extensive analysis of quantitative data in the solar PV sector. Comprehensive global databases containing 86,000 patents as well as manufacturing and sales records are used to analyze geographic shifts in the PV sector's innovation, manufacturing and market deployment activities between 1990 and 2012. The analysis reveals spatial lifecycle patterns with lowerthan-expected first mover advantages in manufacturing and market activities and an earlier entry of firms from emerging economies in manufacturing and knowledge creation. We discuss implications of these findings for the competitive positions of companies in developed and emerging economies, derive new stylized hypotheses for industry lifecycle theories, and sketch policy approaches that are reflexive of global interdependencies in emerging cleantech industries.
“…The valuation system, in turn, refers to the process by which a product is connected to (market or social) values (Jeannerat and Kebir, 2016). This social construction process can evolve in standardized or customized patterns .…”
Section: Complex Value Chains In a Global Innovation System Perspectivementioning
Economic globalization and the modularization of value chains increasingly challenge longheld conceptual models explaining the spatial evolution of industries. This paper seeks to reinterpret early industry life cycle dynamics by disintegrating an industry's value chain into upstream, core and downstream parts and characterizing each part according to its underlying global innovation system (GIS) configuration. We distinguish between firms in parts of the value chain that depend on formalized, science-based innovation and cater for globally standardized mass markets ('footloose' GIS) and firms in parts of the value chain that rely on spatially more stable GIS structures, in which either the innovation activities or the valuation dynamics (or both) depend on spatial embedding in given territorial contexts. Our hypothesis is that firms which occupy parts of the value chain with footloose GIS characteristics will have shorter survival times than firms which operate in spatially more stable GIS types. Demandside policies will accordingly produce stronger competitive advantages for firms operating in GIS with spatially stable valuation structures. The empirical context of our study is the solar photovoltaics (PV) industry. We analyze market entry and exit of 129 German and 127 Japanese PV firms from 1960 to 2016 using a Cox Proportional Hazards model. The results support the hypotheses that firm survival and policy effects depend on a value chain part's underlying GIS configuration.
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