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

By A. Cumbers, D. Mackinnon, K. Chapman. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Urban Studies

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Introduction: Clusters in Urban and Regional Development (2004, background): “0042-0980 Print/1360-063X On-line/04/05/60959–11 2004 The Editors of Urban Studies DOI: 10.1080/00420980410001675896 through detailed empirical research (though see Cumbers et al., 2003a; Keeble et al., 1999; Swann et al., 1998).”
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Industrial Development: Geography and the Creative Field Revisited (2006, background): “For a sample of relevant studies on this matter see Cumbers et al. (2003), Edquist (1997), Gertler (1995), Powell et (1996), Rallet and Torre (1999), Uzzi and Lancaster (2003).”
Regional innovation systems: Current discourse and unresolved issues (2005, background): “—Aberdeen oil complex [48]; Doloreux—Ottawa and Beauce regions in Canada [40]; Wolfe—various Canadian regions [4]; Henry and Pitch—motor sport industry in the UK [91].”
Fostering sustainability through sourcing from small businesses: public sector perspectives (2008, background): “In a case study of SMEs in the Aberdeen oil complex, some evidence of localised collaboration amongst SMEs was found, yet the importance of extra-local networks of knowledge transfer and the unequal power relations that underpin inter-firm relations were also stressed [32].”
Inter-organizational collaboration and SMEs’ innovation: A systematic review and future research directions (2020, background): “performance due to shared culture and regulations (Cumbers et al., 2003; Weterings & Boschma, 2009).”
Towards a process theory of entrepreneurial ecosystems (2018, background): “Energy-driven regional economies such as Calgary, Canada (Spigel, 2017) and Aberdeen, Scotland (Cumbers et al 2003) are examples of these ‘irrigated’ ecosystems: although they have high rates of entrepreneurship due to the many opportunities in the booming and oil gas industry, the competition and r”
Networking, trust and embeddedness amongst SMEs in the Aberdeen oil complex (2004, background): “These tended to be more akin to the notions of trust stressed in the literature on industrial districts and learning regions, being associated with innovative projects between groups of firms (Cumbers et al. 2002).”