Looking for Regional Systems of Innovation: Evidence from the Italian Innovation Survey

By Rinaldo Evangelista, S. Iammarino, Valeria Mastrostefano, A. Silvani. 2002

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The empirical target of this article is two-fold: exploring the variety of regional innovative patterns in Italy; and assessing whether innovation systems can be found, and how they operate, at a sub-national scale. The empirical analysis is based on an in-depth analysis of the data provided by the first Community Innovation Survey (CIS). The article shows that the traditional north-south distinction does not give full account of the wider spectrum of regional patterns in Italy. In particular, regional innovative patterns differ not only according to the specific strategies and technological performances of firms, but also according to the relevance of systemic interactions and the presence of contextual factors favourable to innovation. However, proper regional systems of innovation are found only in a few well-defined areas. In most regions, systemic interactions and knowledge flows between the relevant actors are simply too sparse and too weak to reveal the presence of systems of innovation at work.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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Neglected innovators: How do innovative firms that do not perform R&D innovate? : Results of an analysis of the Innobarometer 2007 survey No. 215 (2008, background): “These innovation activities are particularly common for process innovation (Evangelista et al 2002; Nascia and Perani 2002).”
Regional Innovation Systems in the Lisbon strategy (2005, background): “For national applications, see for instance Evangelista et al. (2002) (Italy; NUTS-2), Doloreux (2002) (Sweden; NUTS-2), Simmie (2003) (UK; NUTS-2) and de Bruijn’s (2004) (shift-share potentiality estimates analysis of NUTS-5 regions in the Netherlands).”
Handbook of innovation systems and developing countries (2009, background): “A region embeds many systemic elements external to the fi rm, which infl uence its technological competence and growth (Cooke et al., 1997; Howells, 1999; Evangelista et al., 2002; Iammarino, 2005).”
A multilevel analysis of innovation in developing countries (2008, unknown): “An inevitable outcome of a single-level analysis is therefore highly positive correlation between innovativeness and these external obstacles to innovation (Evangelista et al., 2002; Mohnen and Röller, 2005), but this is because innovation influences firm’s perception of the obstacles (Clausen, 2008”
Regional innovation systems: Current discourse and unresolved issues (2005, background): “This unit of analysis is especially reflected in studies using the Community Innovation Survey data to identify regional innovation systems and regional patterns of innovation (e.g. Evangelista, et al., Italy [76]; Doloreux, Sweden [78]; Simmie, UK [79]).”
Internal and External R&D: A Sample Selection Approach (2004, background): “Recent research has focused on ‘regional systems of innovation’ (RSI) defined as ‘the localised network of actors and institutions in the public and private sectors whose activities and interactions generate, import, modify and diffuse new technologies’ (Evangelista et al., 2002, p. 174).”