Regional Innovation Policy Processes: Linking Learning to Action

Aranguren, Mari José; Larrea, Miren

doi:10.1007/s13132-011-0068-1

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“…If the different actors had been provided with more information about the renewable technology and its benefits, a more positive environment for experimenting and learning could have resulted (Aranguren and Larrea 2011). Fundamentally, the QH, if more properly implemented, could have encouraged a more innovation-friendly culture (Nordberg 2015;Casaramona et al 2015).…”

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“…Kolehmainen et al (2016) suggest strategic thinking and actions, mutual interest, and commitment as of great importance for QH collaborations. Features of social organization, such as trust, norms, and networks, can also facilitate collaborative actions (Aranguren and Larrea 2011). Hence, a common language and a shared understanding on the possible solution and potential alternatives can positively impact the dynamics of organizations (Di Nauta et al 2015).…”

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“…In sum, the initiative from the regional office to work with the university became difficult, not only due to a lack of funding, but due to the fact that the collaboration was not entirely supported by an active dialog among the various actors, whereby different expectations collided. Aranguren and Larrea (2011) state that tacit knowledge is key to innovation, and it can be transferred only in face-to-face interactions. On the contrary, the regional office representatives met frequently with the consultants, whereas the researchers communicate with the other actors mostly through emails, making it difficult to share specific information about the technology or the status of the funding applications.…”

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A Processual Approach for the Quadruple Helix Model: the Case of a Regional Project in Uppsala

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This study investigates how the quadruple helix (QH) innovation model functions in a regional renewable energy initiative in Uppsala, Sweden. The focus is on the collaboration between regional office representatives, researchers, consultants and civil society, and their involvement in the attempt to implement and commercialize an innovation within renewable energy for the renovation of an old bridge. The empirical material gathered for this study was based on interviews, conversations, and participant observation during workshops and meetings with different stakeholders. By applying a processual approach, this article illustrates how the QH configuration (universityindustry-government and civil society) emerges and evolves, unfortunately into a failed collaboration and thus a closing down of a commercialization attempt. By analyzing interactions and events of the process, we discuss the coordination problems between the actors to better understand how the dynamics affect local governments' attempts to spur a more innovative climate in the region. In our conclusion, we discuss how the processual approach, when applied, can offer a better understanding of the uncertain development of QH projects in knowledge-based societies and economies.

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A Processual Approach for the Quadruple Helix Model: the Case of a Regional Project in Uppsala

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2018

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“…The nature of the knowledge changes in its combination and circulation between partners in pursuit of these collective goals. Partners seek to create through these combination processes what Aranguren and Larrea (2011) call 'actionable knowledge', that provides the basis for activity and progression towards the longer-term goals of regional improvement. We follow the definition of Argyris (1996) understanding 'actionable knowledge' as that knowledge that is required to implement external validity (relevance) and is thereby necessary to transform abstract knowledge into an everyday world context.…”

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Challenges of knowledge combination in strategic regional innovation processes - the Creative Science Park in Aveiro

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Benneworth

2019

European Planning Studies

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This paper considers how heterogeneous groups of regional stakeholders design and implement strategic activities that contribute to their region's innovation capacity. We aim to understand how these stakeholder groups attempt to create new regional development pathways, and explore why otherwise enthusiastic and willing partnerships might fail to progress. We conceptualize this in terms of partners seeking to develop a shared actionable knowledge set as the basis for future development, and contend that one explanation for these failures might be a failure of the ways that partners combine their knowledge. We conceptualize strategic processes in terms of a series of distinct phases, and identify how problems in knowledge combination processes might manifest themselves in preventing the creation of valuable knowledge for subsequent action. Drawing on a detailed empirical case study of the Creative Science Park in Aveiro (Portugal), we argue that a better understanding of inter-stakeholder knowledge combination processes is necessary for creating and implementing better strategic transformational development processes for regions.

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“…During the last decades, the question of effective integration of economies and education systems with societies has been a major concern of many researchers. Truly, the simple existence of actors is not sufficient to gain competitive advantage; it rather needs coordination, conscious and proactive actions (Aranguren and Larrea, 2011). The knowledge spillover theory (Acset al, 2005) pointed out the need for new firms, because almost always "economic agents (entrepreneurs) outside existing firms seek out and apply knowledge spillovers to generate innovative outputs by creating new firms" (Hann, 2008, p. 80).…”

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The strategic importance of quality education in mena countries towards innovation-driven economies and entrepreneurial societies

Oukil¹

2012

IJIKMMENA

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Purpose: Discuss the strategic importance of quality education as a determinant in the transformation process towards innovation-driven economies and entrepreneurial societies with reference to the case of Middle East and North African countries. Design/methodology/approach: The author uses a descriptive and analytical method, and draws from available literature and secondary data. Inspiring from his long teaching experience, he presents a critical viewpoint about the situation with focus oninnovation/entrepreneurship education in the Middle East and North Africa region. Findings: In general, education systems in the region are less practice and business oriented than those in leading Developed and Emerging countries. More specifically, gaps in innovation and entrepreneurship are very significant with regard to teaching, training, learning methods, post-graduate and research programs. Research limitations/implications:The study is broad covering the Middle East and North Africa countries, but conclusions apply to the great majority of them. Decision-makers in the education sectors are called to introduce the necessary changes as fast as possible in order to make teaching and learning an exciting and practically useful process to students themselves, the economy and society, at large.

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Regional Innovation Policy Processes: Linking Learning to Action

Abstract: Constructing regional advantage, Regional innovation policy, Policy learning, Knowledge networks,

Cited by 13 publications

References 26 publications

A Processual Approach for the Quadruple Helix Model: the Case of a Regional Project in Uppsala

A Processual Approach for the Quadruple Helix Model: the Case of a Regional Project in Uppsala

Challenges of knowledge combination in strategic regional innovation processes - the Creative Science Park in Aveiro

The strategic importance of quality education in mena countries towards innovation-driven economies and entrepreneurial societies

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