Search results for "Innovation system"
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Access, Equity, and Regional Development
2014
All over the world, the transition from elite to mass, and in many cases, universal higher education (Trow & Burrage, 2010) has resulted in a new set of policy dilemmas regarding the governance of higher education (HE) systems in general (Amaral, Jones, & Karseth, 2002), as well as attempts to steer access to HE in particular (Pinheiro, Charles, & Jones, 2013; Pinheiro & Antonowicz, forthcoming).
Science and Technology Policies: a tale of political use, misuse and abuse of traditional R&D indicators
2009
6 tables, 2 figures, 18 pages
La «innovación escondida» de las pymes industriales en el capitalismo español. Gestión, estrategias y repertorios de prácticas innovadoras en pymes m…
2019
Las pymes industriales dinámicas e innovadoras son una de las bases de prosperidad colectiva en algunos países y regiones europeas. Desde una sociología multinivel que integra los niveles micro (empresarial-organizativo), meso (regional-local y sectorial) y macro (capitalismo estatal-nacional) dentro del sistema de redes-cadenas de producción del capitalismo global, el artículo analiza la actividad innovadora de las pymes industriales, la cual se puede denominar innovación escondida al no aparecer en los indicadores convencionales de innovación. En base a 22 entrevistas semiestructuradas a directivos de pymes manufactureras de Cataluña, se aplica la Teoría Fundamentada para construir catego…
Rethinking Regional Innovation Systems to capture regions’ variety
2014
Over the last few decades the concept of Regional Innovation Systems has given rise to a line of research which aims to highlight the functioning of network relationships and their importance in the innovation process at a meso-economic level. Despite limitations, this approach has thrown up some interesting reflections on the systemic nature of the process of innovation at regional level. It proposes some insights to draw an interpretive framework which includes elements for analysing disparate regions. The aim of this paper is to highlight the main aspects of the issue that might allow to go over in the debate opening up perspectives for analysing regional systems of innovation, both adva…
Main Trends in Regional Innovation Systems: An Author Co-citation Analysis
2010
Regional Innovation Systems are increasingly attracting attention on behalf of accademics, practitioners and policy makers. This has produced a wide array of studies in the field, both regards the specific themes treated and the perspectives adopted. Though a number of sujective reviews of the field have been proposed, these tend to present the field according to the analysts' subjective biases and tends to meld what the field is with what the field should be. In order to overcome the limitations present in the subjective reviews proposed untill today, in this study we conduct an objective review of the main contributions to the Regional Innovation Systems fiels of studies.
Which regions produce the most innovation policy research?
2022
[EN] This article uses the data indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus databases up to and including the year 2020 to map leading regions and trending topics in academic innovation policy research. The country analysis highlights four leading regions in this research field: Western Europe (led by the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, and Spain), North America (led by the USA), Scandinavia (led by Sweden and Denmark), and Asia-Pacific (led by China and Australia). The most common keywords are used to develop a conceptual framework. Applying the Tree of Science approach, we classify the most influential studies into three categories: foundational studies (the roots), structural …
Horizon scanning the European bio‐based economy: a novel approach to the identification of barriers and key policy interventions from stakeholders in…
2016
There is international recognition that developing a climate-smart bioeconomy is essential to the continuation of economic development, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and adaptation to climatic change; Bio-based products have an important role in making this transition happen. Supporting policy interventions have been put forward at European and national levels to support innovation and development of bio-based products and services. This study asks whether suggested policy interventions reflect the needs of stakeholders and examines how these needs vary between European regions. This consultation was performed through an online survey of 447 experts actively involved in bio-based r…
Regional Innovation System as a Framework for the Co-generation of Policy: An Action Research Approach
2018
Policy makers in regional development often relate their policies to frameworks proposed by researchers in the field. Of these frameworks, the regional innovation system (RIS) has been one of the most influential. This chapter focuses on the difficulties that arise when policy makers try to enact the RIS and other related frameworks and proposes action research—and, more specifically, a co-generative approach—to help face these challenges. The starting point for this proposal is an analysis of the differences and similarities between the observer and co-generative research approaches. Most research in this field has been developed with researchers positioned as outside observers, and co-gen…
How does diversity affect district innovation systems?Findings from a comparative study of european ceramics
2018
This research applies Nelson’s (1993) primary typology of enterprises to understand why the propensity for innovation varies across ceramics district innovation systems in Europe. We use innovation systems and industrial district theories to explore the innovation capacity of the two most important ceramic tile industrial districts in Europe—Emilia Romagna in Italy and Castellon in Spain. Our analysis shows that, in both districts, innovation plays a decisive role in allowing companies to maintain competitiveness in a globalizing market. However, by comparing the composition of their district innovation systems, our analysis shows that: (i) although levels of competition in both districts a…
Can small regions construct regional advantages? The case of four Norwegian regions
2012
Accepted version of an article in the journal: European Urban and Regional Studies. Also availble from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969776412439200 The conceptual framework of constructing regional advantage (CRA) is implicitly relevant for large, well-off regions that have strong regional innovation systems, a diversity of industrial sectors and resourceful firms that can partake in global knowledge networks. This paper discusses the extent to which small regions, with less developed regional innovation systems, may also constitute the basis for developing regional advantage. Four cases of regional industries dominated by different innovation modes make up the empirical tes…