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Linking content and technology: on the geography of innovation networks in the Bergen media cluster
Jan Ole RypestølRoman Martinsubject
Descriptive knowledgeKnowledge managementSingle clusterbusiness.industry05 social sciences0211 other engineering and technologies021107 urban & regional planning02 engineering and technologyGateway (computer program)General Business Management and AccountingNew mediaCreative industriesManagement of Technology and Innovation0502 economics and businessHuman geographyStructured interviewCluster (physics)business050203 business & managementdescription
This paper deals with the geography of innovation networks and analyses combinatorial knowledge dynamics from a single cluster perspective. Addressing firms in the media cluster in Bergen, Norway, we examine how and from where companies acquire and combine different types of knowledge for their innovation activities. The empirical analysis, which is based on structured interviews with 22 media companies, identifies two main types of cluster firms: media content providers that rely heavily on symbolic knowledge and media technology providers that draw mostly on synthetic knowledge. Even though they draw on different knowledge bases, the two types of firms are strongly interlinked in their innovation activities and source knowledge from each other. Furthermore, we find that synthetic firms constitute a gateway to the regional R&D system and that the region acts as key arena for the combination of dissimilar knowledge bases.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-23 | Industry and Innovation |