Sistemas regionales de innovación
- Author(s)
- Bjørn Asheim, Markus Grillitsch, Michaela Trippl
- Abstract
Since its development in the 1990s, the Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) approach has attracted considerable attention from economic geographers, innovation scholars and policy makers. The RIS approach is well-known in scientific discourse about the uneven geography of innovation and the factors that shape the knowledge generation and innovation capacities of regions. The aim of this paper is to reflect on the emergence of the RIS approach, the current debate as well as future challenges. This paper is structured around four over arching research questions: What are the origins and theoretical foundations of this ap-proach? What has the RIS approach contributed to innovation studies and economic geography? What are the implications for innovation policy? And what are the recent lines of research and key research challenges in the future? We argue that the con-tributions of the RIS approach have been substantial. Nevertheless, the approach has often been applied in a rather static way, more as a heuristic than a coherent theory. The key challenges for current and future research, therefore, are to move towards a more theory-based, dynamic perspective on RIS, dealing with new path development and the transformation of RIS.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Geography and Regional Research
- External organisation(s)
- University of Stavanger, Lund University
- Journal
- Revista Galega de Economia
- Volume
- 28
- Pages
- 4-22
- No. of pages
- 19
- ISSN
- 1132-2799
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.15304/rge.28.2.6190
- Publication date
- 2019
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 507026 Economic geography
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Economics and Econometrics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/4ced60c8-4ea6-4863-841a-33eae7ad70b3