The regional facet of a global innovation system: Exploring the spatiality of resource formation in the value chain for onshore wind energy

Rohe, Sebastian

doi:10.1016/j.eist.2020.02.002

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“…The elements of new structures are: joint innovation, collective investment, mutual trust management of the participants in the chain, training and exchange of experience and knowledge [45,46]. Thus, the spatial development of regional innovation chains in age of sustainable development has created conditions for the formation of global innovation ecosystems based on models of efficient resource allocation, technological integration and knowledge transfer at the national and federal levels [47]. Innovations are embedded in global value chains and at the same time are the result of their development, linking both suppliers and consumers of goods and centers of knowledge distant from each other.…”

Section: Theoretical Review 21 Theoretical and Methodological Approaches To The Study Of Strategic Innovation As A Factor Of Adaptation Omentioning

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Strategic Innovation as a Factor of Adaptation of National Economies to the Development of Global Value Chains

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In age of sustainable development, strategic innovations have become the most important factor in the adaptation of national economies to dynamic global changes, encompassing trade and economic relations between the leading and developing countries of the World. At the same time, the task of this study was to reveal the complex and contradictory role of strategic innovations in the development of national economies against the background of the transformation of global value chains (GVCs). Main methods for solving the problem were empirical methods of comparative and structural analysis, as well as econometrics. The study analyzed 44 countries classified by the World Bank in the group of countries with per capita incomes below and above the average, as well as with high income. Results of the calculations made it possible to establish a highly differentiated relationship between the share of products manufactured by foreign companies operating in the host countries, on the one hand, and indicators of the dynamics of foreign direct investment (the number of researchers engaged in R&D, the number of technical specialists involved in research and development (R&D), the cost of research and development in the territory of the host countries), on the other hand. This made it possible to determine the role of strategic innovation in the adaptation of national economies. The established dependencies expand the understanding of the role of strategic innovations in the formation and further development of global value chains and their significance in evolution: from process and product innovations of individual companies to the formation of global innovation ecosystems.

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Section: Theoretical Review 21 Theoretical and Methodological Approaches To The Study Of Strategic Innovation As A Factor Of Adaptation Omentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategic Innovation as a Factor of Adaptation of National Economies to the Development of Global Value Chains

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“…On-the-ground efforts by local pioneers and social dynamics within regional networks might be added (Chlebna and Mattes, 2019;Jedelhauser and Streit, 2018;Späth and Rohracher, 2012). To capture spatial dynamics within the TIS, some contributions highlight how resources are formed within a region and how they are linked to or transplanted from other localities (Miörner and Trippl, 2019;Rohe, 2020). This emphasizes that resource formation in one place might lead to structural developments elsewhere, which increases uncertainty for policy makers on how to best support innovation systems in their region (Andersson et al, 2018).…”

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“…Most contributions in this 'spatial turn' focus on national subsystems and how they influence each other (Bento and Fontes, 2015;van der Loos et al, 2020b;Wieczorek et al, 2015). Regions are either treated as a uniform and homogenous 'regional level' within a multi-scalar system (Binz and Truffer, 2017;Dewald and Fromhold-Eisebith, 2015) or highlighted by single case studies of pioneering or well-developed TIS locations (Martin and Coenen, 2015;Miörner and Trippl, 2019;Rohe, 2020). The debate lacks a differentiated view on regional diversity and how the TIS shapes and is shaped by the various localities in which it materializes (Andersson et al, 2018).…”

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What about the regional level? Regional configurations of Technological Innovation Systems

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Mattes

2022

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Regional innovation policy must not only strive for economic competitiveness, but also push novel and more sustainable technological solutions. The complex and multi-scalar process of developing and diffusing new technologies is captured by the Technological Innovation Systems (TIS) framework. However, the approach neglects regional variety and lacks a nuanced and systematic understanding of how technological change plays out differently across places. We thus complement TIS with insights from the literature on Regional Innovation Systems (RIS), which offers manifold comparisons and typologies of institutional contexts for regional innovation. We argue that three ideal-typical configurations -localist-grassroots, interactive-networked, and globalist-dirigiste -exist at the intersection between a technological and specific regional innovation system. We discuss how these regional configurations contribute differently to the development and functioning of the overall TIS and point to the innovation-related challenges they are confronted with. We illustrate our conceptual arguments with a brief comparative case study on three regions in the TIS for onshore wind energy. Overall, this paper contributes to the literature on the geographies of innovation and sustainability transitions, introduces a framework for analyzing regional variety in TIS, and enables more fine-grained and place-specific policy interventions directed at fostering specific technologies at the regional level.

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“…Therefore, consultation with the locals is also important to consider. Many recent studies focus on technological legitimation (community acceptance), indicating the importance of public participation in decision-making [104].…”

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Establishing Regional Power Sustainability and Feasibility Using Wind Farm Land-Use Optimization

Gharaibeh

Al-Shboul

Al‐Rawabdeh

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Wind-farm planning optimization is important for decision-making concerning regional energy planning in developing countries. This process is governed by restrictions on site selection based on land suitability metric variables, wind turbine technology variables, and land-use governing criteria. This study aims to create a framework for land appropriation strategies for locating optimum sites suitable for wind farms. It is using Jordan as an Area of Interest (AOI), where the scope is to illustrate how this framework will employ wind turbine energy to positively enhance the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The methodology employs thirteen GIS thematic layers with a 250-m spatial resolution to substantiate how site-specific criteria, turbine type, and turbine hub height variables are determining factors in the optimal solution. This method involves selecting relevant factors, database construction, data layer generation and preparation, numerical ranking and weighting of each factor, and computation of the potential wind farm locations map by overlaying all the thematic GIS layers. The results showed that the establishment of wind farms would not only meet the AOI’s growing energy needs, rather exceed them to generating income for the developing nation. The results of the feasibility study will boost the national GDP by 3.4%; where, for example, one governorate alone could produce 274.3% of the total required national consumption at a turbine hub height of 50 m. The study attests to a valuable framework that can be implemented elsewhere to establish regional power sustainability and feasibility for other nations. The results show that an added land-use layer indicating the potential value of land in terms of its suitability for establishing wind farms should be considered in future sustainable regional planning studies when considering networks for smart cities, industrial cities, smart agriculture, and new agglomerations.

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The regional facet of a global innovation system: Exploring the spatiality of resource formation in the value chain for onshore wind energy

Cited by 39 publications

References 55 publications

Strategic Innovation as a Factor of Adaptation of National Economies to the Development of Global Value Chains

Strategic Innovation as a Factor of Adaptation of National Economies to the Development of Global Value Chains

What about the regional level? Regional configurations of Technological Innovation Systems

Establishing Regional Power Sustainability and Feasibility Using Wind Farm Land-Use Optimization

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