Unravelling the Role of ICT in Regional Innovation Networks: A Case Study of the Music Festival ‘Bons Sons’

2018 ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Paula Alexandra Silva ◽  
Oksana Tymoshchuk ◽  
Denis Renó ◽  
Ana Margarida Almeida ◽  
Luís Pedro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Networks ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Music Festival

scholarly journals Technology transfer in innovation networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 184797901773574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanna Ferraro ◽  
Antonio Iovanella
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Network Science ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Innovation Networks ◽  
Science Approach

This article offers a network perspective on the collaborative effects of technology transfer, providing a research methodology based on the network science paradigm. We argue that such an approach is able to map and describe the set of entities acting in the technology transfer environment and their mutual relationships. We outline how the connections’ patterns shape the organization of the networks by showing the role of the members within the system. By means of a case study of a transnational initiative aiming to support the technology transfer within European countries, we analyse the application of the network science approach, giving evidence of its relative implications.

scholarly journals Whose riot? Collective memory of an iconic event in a local music scene

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Green
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
Music Scenes ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
Narrative Frame

The application of memory studies to music scenes has so far had a material focus, favouring places and objects. This article critically examines the role of an iconic event in scene identity, through a case study of the ‘Cybernana’ music festival, hosted by Brisbane community radio station 4ZZZfm in 1996 and marked by what has been characterised, alternately, as an audience riot and a police riot. Based on ethnographic research and analysis of cultural texts it is shown that, against official findings and wider disinterest, there exists an intergenerational counter-memory of Cybernana as an iconic event, within a politicised narrative that defines both the radio station and the local music scene. The factors involved in constructing this iconicity are considered, including the role of media. This mediated, cultural memory provides a narrative frame for individual experiences, through which people locate themselves within the scene and reaffirm its collective identity.

Policy-Driven University – Industry Linkages and Regional Innovation Networks in Korea

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 647-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong-Won Sohn ◽  
Hyungjoo Kim ◽  
Jeong Hyop Lee
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Clusters ◽  
Innovation Networks ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Main Determinant ◽  
Capital Region ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Networks Analysis ◽  
University Industry ◽  
University Industry Linkages

In this paper we examine the role of the Korean government in creating university – industry linkages and in promoting the role of universities as knowledge providers in regional innovation systems. We investigate the different types of universities' roles in the capital region of Seoul and in the noncapital regions. We argue that government policy is the main determinant that drives Korean universities to play the role of knowledge provider for industrial innovation. This policy has also brought about regional differences in the way universities participate in innovation activities in the capital region and outside the capital region. In the Korean context, universities in noncapital regions act as a backbone for creating and managing regional innovation networks as well as a close and easily accessible knowledge provider to local industry. However, universities in the capital region play the role of a close knowledge provider only to local industry, while corporate research and development centres are the key players in developing and managing innovation networks in the capital region. To arrive at our conclusions we use social networks analysis and government document analysis to demonstrate the structure of innovation networks and to analyze two types of universities' roles in the regional innovation networks of four Korean industrial clusters.

Policy and planning in the dutch countryside: The role of regional innovation networks

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 727-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noelle Aarts ◽  
Cees Van Woerkum ◽  
Babette Vermunt
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Networks ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Policy And Planning

scholarly journals The Role of Local Action Groups in the Process of Multifunctional Development of a Peripheral Region. A Case Study of the Region of Lublin, Poland

2017 ◽  
pp. 97-120
Author(s):  
Danuta Guzal-Dec ◽  
Magdalena Zwolińska-Ligaj
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Peripheral Region ◽  
Local Action ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Smart Specialization ◽  
Interview Questionnaire ◽  
Action Groups

The aim of the study is to describe the role of Local Action Groups (LAGs) under the Leader Programme in fostering entrepreneurship and employment in Lubelskie voivodeship. The hypothesis underpinning the study suggested that LAGs operating in rural areas of the Lublin region contribute insufficiently to job creation and provision of entrepreneurial incentives and play insufficient role in enhancing multifunctionality of rural areas. The study was based on document analysis and diagnostic surveys, including an interview questionnaire addressed to representatives of the offices of all 22 LAGs from the studied region. The results revealed that few projects were aimed at the development of non-agricultural functions in rural areas, and demonstrated insufficient involvement of LAGs in the implementation of projects in the bioeconomy sector, which is the key smart specialization of the region. In conclusion the authors assess the overall role of LAGs in creating jobs as marginal and call for paying more attention to the postulates of diversification assumptions resulting from the strategic development documents drafted for the region, including the Regional Innovation Strategy.

Innovation, Collaboration, and Learning in Regional Clusters: A Study of SMEs in the Aberdeen Oil Complex

2003 ◽  
Vol 35 (9) ◽  
pp. 1689-1706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Cumbers ◽  
Danny Mackinnon ◽  
Keith Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Regional Clusters ◽  
Interfirm Relations ◽  
Geographical Clustering

Issues of regional innovation and learning have attracted growing interest from economic geographers and related specialists in recent years. The advantages to be gained from localised networks and learning are claimed to be particularly important for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in helping offset the size-related advantages of larger firms. Such claims are part of a wider rediscovery of the benefits of clustering and agglomeration in economic geography. Yet, to date, theoretical speculation about the renewed importance of geographical clustering for SMEs has run ahead of detailed empirical research. Beyond a few well-known case studies of high-technology clusters, there have been few attempts systematically to ‘test’ assertions made about the links between innovation, collaboration, and learning. The authors' purpose in this paper is to contribute new empirical evidence to this debate through a case study of SMEs in the Aberdeen oil complex. Although they find some evidence to support the role of localised forms of collaboration among the most innovative SMEs, the authors' results also indicate the importance of extralocal networks of knowledge transfer and the unequal power relations that underpin interfirm relations. These findings reinforce recent calls for a shift of focus from ‘regions’ to ‘networks’, raising some fundamental questions about the substantive basis of clusters policy.

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