The Governance of Global Innovation Systems: Putting Knowledge in Context

Abstract

Technological innovation increasingly depends on multiscalar actor networks and institutions. However, the developers of many conceptual frameworks explaining innovation success have paid only limited attention to this new reality, due to their focus on regions and countries as agents that shape innovation governance and as containers that provide institutional conditions for innovation success. In particular, innovation systems literature has been criticized in this respect. In the present chapter, we refer to the recently formulated Global Innovation Systems approach, which enables researchers to capture the emergence of system resources across spatial scales. With this framework, we emphasize that beyond the focus on knowledge generation processes, a better understanding of valuation processes is necessary to guide governance structures for generating new technologies and products. This is particularly true for sectors that are oriented towards confronting grand challenges, such as cleantech industries.

Exploring the Global Innovation Systems Perspective by Applying Openness Index to National Systems of Innovation

“…For this matter, they designed a conceptual structure and a typology of four generic configurations of GIS perspective and identified different innovation actors involved in the system from an industry-sensitive viewpoint. In their newest paper, based on their proposed configuration of the GIS perspective, the authors provided an elaborate implication for governance on globalized innovation systems perspective [8].…”

“…One of the proposals was to improve the NIS perspective by expanding the analytic boundary from national to global [4][5][6][7][8][9]. Unlike the traditional innovation systems perspective that focuses on spatial or sectoral boundaries, the global innovation systems (GIS) perspective, a newly emerging concept, recognizes the flow of knowledge and innovation creation in the global context.…”

“…This very attempt goes back to the early 1990s when there were extensive discussions on internationalization and globalization of the (national) innovation systems perspective. The latest papers face the challenge of comprehending the mechanism of the GIS perspective, but most of the research is limited to a market-based viewpoint [4][5][6][7][8][9]. Despite these papers' contributions to the GIS perspective, a number of literature gaps are recognized.…”

Inovação para a Saúde : Geografia da Investigação Translação Envolvendo Hospitais

“…Hélder Santos; Teresa Sá Marques Um dos eixos centrais de investigação na geografia económica centra-se nas condições do contexto local que possibilitam a emergência de certas indústrias em determinados lugares. A geografia da inovação partiu de um leitura local/regional dos processos de inovação (Moulaert e Sekia, 2003), para interpretações dicotómicas do tipo local-global (Gertler e Levitte, 2005) e encontra-se atualmente a explorar a natureza multiescalar dos processos de inovação (Binz et al, 2014; Binz e Truffer, 2017 e 2020) integrando as dimensões do espaço, da escala e dos lugares (Binz, et al 2020;Asheim, 2020).…”

“…A literatura sobre a criação de novos trajetos industriais proporciona uma estrutura de análise dinâmica, baseada nos processos de produção de conhecimento, capital humano e nas estruturas industriais pré-existentes (Boschma, 2017), mas também nas influências não-locais (Binz et al, 2016;Trippl et al, 2018), pelo que se recomenda uma abordagem multiescalar, dada a natureza fluída das escalas (Binz, et al, 2020). Assim, o desenvolvimento de uma nova trajetória é compreendido como um processo de mobilização e ancoragem de recursos, com particular ênfase para o conhecimento, que podem sustentar a emergência e desenvolvimento de um trajeto industrial (Chen and Hassink, 2020).…”