The role of the Regional Innovation System approach in contemporary regional policy: is it still relevant in a globalised world?

Autor(en)
Bjørn Asheim, Arne Isaksen, Michaela Trippl
Abstrakt

Schot and Steinmueller (2018) argue that science, technology and innovation policies can be framed in three different ways following the Second World War. The first framing, which they call ‘R&D’(research and development), lasted until the 1970s; the second framing, referred to as ‘National Systems of Innovation’, peaked around 2010, but is still very influential; and the third framing,‘transformative change’, has been increasing in importance since 2010, with its focus on how to solve grand societal challenges (Schot and Steinmueller, 2018). The Regional Innovation System (RIS) approach is an outcome of the second framing, and came into dominance in the 1990s (Asheim et al., 2019). In this chapter we ask whether the RIS approach is still relevant in a globalised world that is increasingly confronted with grand global and societal challenges such as climate change, lack of economic growth, and high levels of

Organisation(en)
Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung
Externe Organisation(en)
University of Agder, University of Stavanger
Seiten
12-29
Anzahl der Seiten
18
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789904161.00006
Publikationsdatum
04-2020
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
507026 Wirtschaftsgeographie
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Allgemeine Sozialwissenschaften, Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all), Allgemeine Unternehmensführung und Buchhaltung
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