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Developing cross-industry innovation capability: regional drivers and indicators within firms
Ann Camilla Schulze-kroghNatalia MaehleNina KyllingstadElisabet Sørfjorddal Haugesubject
Empirical dataProcess (engineering)Restructuring05 social sciencesGeography Planning and Development0211 other engineering and technologies021107 urban & regional planning02 engineering and technologyEmpirical research0502 economics and businessBusinessMarketing050203 business & managementIndustrial organizationdescription
ABSTRACTThe role of firms in the process of regional renewal and path development is a somewhat neglected area in the existing literature. With few exceptions, the literature is mainly concerned with aggregated development paths. To cover this gap, the current study turns its attention to cross-industry innovation capability (CIIC) building in firms and discusses how conditions for innovation and learning in a region drive this process. We introduce a new concept of CIIC – that is, the firm’s ability to transform knowledge and ideas from different industries into new products, processes and systems and/or its ability to adapt existing products, processes and systems to new industries – and identify its drivers and indicators. The discussion is supported by empirical studies of firms in three Norwegian case regions that undergo the restructuring process due to the recent severe decrease in oil prices. Our empirical data demonstrate that organizationally thick and diversified regions are more favourable for...
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-23 | European Planning Studies |