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来源

EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES,Vol.25,Issue3,P.388-405

语言

英文

关键字

Cross-industry innovation capability; regional innovation systems; modes of innovation; regional renewal; EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMIC-GEOGRAPHY; PATH DEPENDENCE; UNRELATED VARIETY; POLICY; KNOWLEDGE; CREATION; GROWTH; MODES

作者单位

[Hauge, Elisabet S.; Kyllingstad, Nina; Maehle, Natalia; Schulze-Krogh, Ann Camilla] Univ Agder, Sch Business & Law, Dept Working Life & Innovat, Kristiansand, Norway. [Maehle, Natalia] Western Norway Univ Appl Sci, Mohn Ctr Innovat & Reg Dev, Bergen, Norway. Maehle, N (reprint author), Univ Agder, Sch Business & Law, Dept Working Life & Innovat, Kristiansand, Norway. E-Mail: natalia.mehle@hvl.no

摘要

The role of firms in the process of regional renewal and path development is a somewhat neglected area in the existing literature. With few exceptions, the literature is mainly concerned with aggregated development paths. To cover this gap, the current study turns its attention to cross-industry innovation capability (CIIC) building in firms and discusses how conditions for innovation and learning in a region drive this process. We introduce a new concept of CIIC - that is, the firm's ability to transform knowledge and ideas from different industries into new products, processes and systems and/or its ability to adapt existing products, processes and systems to new industries - and identify its drivers and indicators. The discussion is supported by empirical studies of firms in three Norwegian case regions that undergo the restructuring process due to the recent severe decrease in oil prices. Our empirical data demonstrate that organizationally thick and diversified regions are more favourable for firms' abilities to develop CIIC and cross-industry innovation activity. As a result, we emphasize that future regional policies should have a stronger focus on the linkages between internal firm characteristics and regional innovation systems to contribute to the firms' absorptive capacity for developing cross-industry innovation.