Place-based innovation policy for industrial diversification in regions

By Markus Grillitsch, Bjørn T. Asheim. European Planning Studies, 2018

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ABSTRACT New industrial innovation policies like smart specialization aim at boosting economic growth by diversification towards more complex and higher value economic activities. This paper proposes a conceptual and analytical framework to support the design and implementation of such policies considering place-specific preconditions, particularly the differentiation of the regional system of innovation and entrepreneurship and the degree of current industrial diversification. The paper expands on the links between these preconditions and the barriers and opportunities for industrial diversification. Consequently, it proposes an archetypical place-based policy framework covering overall policy objectives as well as measures at the level of actors, networks, and the institutional and organizational support structures.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Political Science and International Relations

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Markus Grillitsch
2. Teis Hansen
3. Huiwen Gong
4. R. Hassink
5. Markku Sotarauta
6. S. Jolly
7. Henry S. C. Yeung
8. Michaela Trippl

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. Teis Hansen
2. Markus Grillitsch
3. R. Hassink
4. Huiwen Gong
5. Markku Sotarauta
6. S. Jolly

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Markus Grillitsch
2. Huiwen Gong
3. Teis Hansen
4. R. Hassink
5. Markku Sotarauta
6. Michaela Trippl
7. Henry S. C. Yeung
8. Ron A. Boschma

Citations in the corpus

• Trinity of change agency, regional development paths and opportunity spaces (2020, background): “In some locations and time periods, entrepreneurs will find more opportunities than in others depending on the regional industrial composition (Boschma et al., 2017; Grillitsch and Asheim, 2018), the possibilities to tap knowledge and resources from extra-regional sources (Trippl et al.”
• Agency and actors in regional industrial path development. A framework and longitudinal analysis (2020, background): “Innovative entrepreneurs take risks to enter new terrain and thereby support regional industrial renewal processes (Rypestøl, 2017; Neffke et al., 2018; Grillitsch, 2018).”
• Six critical questions about smart specialization (2019, methodology): “Therefore, to fully understand the features of entrepreneurial discovery processes, as well as structural change in the regional economy we also need qualitative methods (Grillitsch & Asheim, 2018).”
• Green industry development in different types of regions (2019, methodology): “…the seminal contribution of Tödtling and Trippl (2005, p. 1203) on ‘a differentiated regional innovation policy approach’, but also in more recent work on possibilities and conditions for industrial path development in different types of regions (Grillitsch & Asheim, 2018; Trippl & Isaksen, 2016).”