Innovation in space: the mosaic of regional innovation patterns
- Author(s)
- Arne Isaksen, Michaela Trippl
- Abstract
This article casts light on the increasingly complex geography of innovation and knowledge sourcing activities. We argue that the spatial patterns of learning and knowledge exchange vary substantially across different types of regions and industries. The article elucidates such variations by combining three analytical approaches, namely, (i) modes of innovation (differentiating between science-technology-innovation (STI) and doing-using-interacting (DUI) modes), (ii) regional innovation systems (distinguishing between organizationally thick and diversified, thick and specialized, and thin systems), and (iii) types of knowledge linkages that connect actors during the innovation process. We explore in detail the key characteristics of the spatial architectures of innovation and knowledge flows in STI and DUI industries located in regional innovation systems with varying degrees of organizational thickness and specialization. We also discuss empirical examples documented in the extant literature to illustrate our arguments on how innovation and knowledge circulation unfold in space in various territorial and industrial contexts.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Geography and Regional Research
- External organisation(s)
- University of Agder
- Journal
- Oxford Review of Economic Policy
- Volume
- 33
- Pages
- 122-140
- No. of pages
- 19
- ISSN
- 0266-903X
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grw035
- Publication date
- 01-2017
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 507026 Economic geography
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/9f043968-68ff-48bb-8321-9d1b275ad66b