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来源

EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES,Vol.26,Issue5,P.877-894

语言

英文

关键字

Modes of innovation; proximity; STI; DUI; CCI; agricultural engineering; ECONOMIC-GROWTH; SME INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; DIMENSIONS; FIRMS

作者单位

[Santner, Dominik] Univ Bremen, Fac Business Studies & Econ, CRIE, Wilhelm Herbst Str 12, D-28359 Bremen, Germany. Santner, D (reprint author), Univ Bremen, Fac Business Studies & Econ, CRIE, Wilhelm Herbst Str 12, D-28359 Bremen, Germany. E-Mail: dsantner@uni-bremen.de

摘要

Recently, policymakers realized the important role of traditional industries for regional development. However, traditional policies of the last decades mainly focussed on science-intensive high-tech industries. Therefore, it is important to understand, how traditional industries innovate and renew themselves. One of the most notable recent strands of literature distinguishing between the characteristics of high- and low-tech industries is the one on modes of innovation. However, another very important approach related to innovation and regional development, the proximity literature, has only partly discussed in relation to innovation modes. This paper seeks to contribute to this issue by focussing on two traditional agricultural engineering industries from north-western Germany that experienced processes of renewal in the first years of the twenty-first century. It is shown that these industries followed very different developments and utilized different forms of proximities in this process in very specific ways.