Common Trajectories of Regional Competitiveness in the Knowledge Economy

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 387-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Sole Brioschi ◽  
Lucio Cassia
Keyword(s):  
Considerable Increase ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
European Regions ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Regional Competitiveness ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

This paper analyses a number of European regions which, in the last two decades, have exhibited a significant shift towards knowledge-intensive industrial sectors coupled with a considerable increase in competitiveness and growth. The analysis identifies the main factors of territorial development behind each regional renewal process and captures a number of common trajectories of regional competitiveness. Interestingly, all the regional ‘success stories' are strongly dependent on the presence of a tri-polar regional innovation system that glues together firms, government institutions and academia.

scholarly journals Modern trends in innovative development ofoil and gas producing region

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-62
Author(s):  
Tatyana N Bessonova
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Regional Innovation System ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Modern Development

Abstract: When forming the regional innovation system, everyone should take into account specific conditions and the possibility to develop regional economic complexes. Modern development of oil and gas producing region implies an increase in cooperation between all participants of the innovation process. The most promising organizational form of such an association in Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra is Yugra Technopolis. It aims to strengthen the interaction of research and industrial sectors, to improve the commercialization of scientific research results

scholarly journals Regionalne strategie innowacji jako czynnik aktywizacji polskiej przestrzeni przemysłowej

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 20-27
Author(s):  
Andrzej Wieloński ◽  
Katarzyna Szmigiel
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Regional Innovation System ◽  
Regional Innovation Systems ◽  
European Regions ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
The West ◽  
The Third ◽  
New Instrument ◽  
Innovation Strategies

The main goal of the article is to present the regional innovation strategies in the context of the industrial changes in Poland. The analysis has three parts. The first part introduces the general aims of RIS and their history in Europe, the second concerns the RIS in Poland and one of the Polish RIS in particular – RIS Silesia, and the third part describes the effects of Regional Innovations Strategies.RIS are the instruments of regional governments to build the regional innovation systems. A regional innovation system is the environment improving the entrepreneurship and innovation. RIS have been known in Europe since the 1980s but in Poland they are a new instrument implemented by the relatively new structures of regional government.The process of creation and implementation of these documents should be observed by the academics from the beginning, as it may turn out to be one of the most important instruments of the economic policy of the Polish regions. This is because of the financial capacity of the Polish regions and their willingness to follow the West European regions’ example.

Innovation by Imitation?

2012 ◽  
pp. 14-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gert-Jan Hospers ◽  
Erwin van Tuijl ◽  
Paul Benneworth
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Regional Competitiveness ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Success Stories

In the hope to boost regional competitiveness, public authorities increasingly try to imitate success stories of regional innovation. For most areas, Silicon Valley is the dream scenario. Against this background, the chapter discusses the usefulness of benchmarking success stories of regional innovation. For this purpose, the authors review insights from Schumpeterian innovation theory, economic geography, and public policy studies. On the basis of this overview, they conclude that especially in the field of regional innovation, it is hard to reproduce the success of best practices. Therefore, the authors plea for more realism in regional innovation policy: regions may draw inspiration from success stories, but cannot turn themselves in a second Silicon Valley. Thus, the guiding principle for public authorities should be: don’t imitate – innovate!

scholarly journals INNOVATION RISKS IN THE PROCESS OF THE REGION’S COMPETITIVENESS MANAGEMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kabir R. Saubanov ◽  
Mikhail V. Nikolaev ◽  
Aleksandr M. Beliakin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Regional Innovation System ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Economic Approach ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Regional Competitiveness ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantages

This paper is devoted to the analysis of content, systematization and consideration of possible innovative risks arising in the management of the region competitiveness. Methods of abstract-logical approach, comparative analysis, M. Porter's micro-economic approach to competitiveness at the macrolevel, and the method of structural-block simulation were used. Two groups of reasons – internal and external, contributing to the emergence of innovation risks – were identified. It is shown that the former are connected with the contradictory essence of the innovations themselves, which simultaneously contain both positive and negative potential, and the inability to predict in advance which of the two corresponding potential possibilities – creative or destructive – is put into practice. The second group includes some external factors and specific economic conditions in the region, for example, shortcomings in the organization and functioning of the regional innovation system. The group of risks that have the greatest impact on the process of formation of new innovative competitive advantages in the region is considered. The conducted study of risks allowed to formulate a model of regional competitiveness management on an innovative basis, taking into account the possibility of risks at each stage of competitiveness development.The model can be used in practice after introducing innovations of various types into the economic activity of the region and forming a system of sustainable competitive advantages of the region

Regional Innovation System in Lower Silesia

2013 ◽  
pp. 134-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslaw Miller
Keyword(s):  
Regional Scale ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Triangle ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Lower Silesia

Knowledge Based Economy is the key to realize the Lisbon strategy for Europe on global and regional scale. Wroclaw’s EIT Plus strategy will stimulate knowledge-intensive growth of Wroclaw and the Lower Silesia region by concerted effort of the knowledge triangle stakeholders. The cooperation with the neighbouring regions will contribute to establishing a significant knowledge-based economy region in this part of Central Europe and, consequently, should also lead to strengthening the economic position of Poland. EIT Plus Programme refers to the goals of the visionary EC initiative to establish the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. Initial financing for the EIT Plus Programme of ca 200 Mio. € comes from the EU structural funds for 2008-2014. Several core projects for implementation of the EIT Plus programme have been prepared by a new entity, Wroclaw Research Centre EIT Plus Ltd being a company established in 2008 by the City of Wroclaw, the Lower Silesia Region and Wroclaw universities.

Spatial perspectives on knowledge brokers: Evidence from Brussels

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (10) ◽  
pp. 2203-2222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Francesco Dotti ◽  
André Spithoven
Keyword(s):  
Innovation System ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Location Strategy ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Regional Competitiveness ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
New Type ◽  
Knowledge Brokers ◽  
Local Buzz ◽  
Positive Side Effects

Knowledge brokers have emerged as a new type of actors shaping scientific production, influencing science–policy relationships, and thereby contributing to regional competitiveness. Yet, the spatial dimension of these knowledge brokers has received little attention. Using Framework Programme participations in European cities, we analyse and discuss the location strategy of knowledge brokers, highlighting the importance of co-location with the funding source. Our findings show that knowledge brokers are clustered in Brussels, and not elsewhere, to be closer to the European Commission in order to access strategic, informal and tacit information, while contributing to the construction of transnational R&D networks. While this ‘local buzz’ has positive side effects on the regional innovation system of Brussels; knowledge brokers emerge as a new type of spatially clustered actors shaping the distribution of EU funding for ‘European knowledge pipelines’.

scholarly journals Innovation and Competitiveness of European Regions

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Michele Sabatino ◽  
Giuseppina Talamo
Keyword(s):  
European Regions ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Regional Competitiveness ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Regional Systems ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
European Development ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Degree Of Innovation

The recent debate on European development policies is articulated around two major filelds of researches that are highly integrated with each other. One of this is investments in research, innovation and the innovative capacity of the European regions. Another is the degree of competitiveness of production and European regional systems. This research enters the debate on development and regional competitiveness related to innovation and research, by presenting recent data on innovation and competitiveness in the different European regions. Firstly we present the degree of innovation of European regions referring one of the main document “The Regional Innovation Scoreboard 2016”. This document provides a comparative assessment of the performance in terms of innovation in 190 regions of the EU, making use of a limited number of indicators of research and innovation. It also shows what the differences in the level of innovation performance among EU Member States are still considerable and are reduced only slowly. Secondary we present recent data on the degree of competitiveness of the regions by specifying the selected indicators of competitiveness within the EU with a base map existing (The Europe 2020 Competitiveness Report 2014). The aim of this paper is to understand the correlation between the degree of innovation and the degree of competitiveness comparing first the above mentioned dataset and mapping the most innovative and competitive regions. In the light of this comparison the differences and similarities will be highlighted, as well as the correlation between the index of innovation and to regional competitiveness. At the end are presented some policy indications on possible courses of action for innovation and competitiveness of European regions.

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