Innovation in the periphery: Compensation and exploitation strategies
- Author(s)
- Jakob Eder, Michaela Trippl
- Abstract
Recent research has challenged the urban bias in economic geography and innovation studies, showing that highly innovative and competitive firms are also located in peripheral regions. So far, however, analyses has focused on how firms innovate despite their unfavourable location and little has been said about the innovation benefits of peripheral areas. Hence, this article identifies different compensation and exploitation strategies adopted by firms in order to overcome regional innovation constraints and to reap innovation benefits found in the periphery. Drawing on 20 in-depth qualitative interviews with innovative firms situated in the Austrian periphery, our analysis reveals that innovation in peripheral regions is the outcome of a combination of compensation and exploitation practices. The uptake and composition of these strategies depend on the firm and regional characteristics, with firm size being the most influential factor.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Geography and Regional Research
- Journal
- Growth and Change
- Volume
- 50
- Pages
- 1511-1531
- No. of pages
- 21
- ISSN
- 0017-4815
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/grow.12328
- Publication date
- 08-2019
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 507026 Economic geography
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Global and Planetary Change
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/innovation-in-the-periphery-compensation-and-exploitation-strategies(590ff424-a393-4105-8bdf-ec500fe08509).html