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The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography
Boschma, Ron; Martin, Ron - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2010
This aim of this paper is to present the objectives and scope of an evolutionary approach to economic geography. We argue that the goal is not only to utilise the concepts and ideas from evolutionary economics (and evolutionary thinking more broadly) to help interpret and explain how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478245
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The importance of R&D subsidies and technological infrastructure for regional innovation performance - A conditional efficiency approach
Broekel, Tom; Schlump, Charlotte - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2009
approaches miss however the systematic regional character of innovation activities and potential firm-spanning effects of this … policy measure. The literature on regional innovation performance has widely neglected R&D subsidies so far. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469278
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Do cooperative R&D subsidies stimulate regional innovation efficiency? Evidence from Germany
Broekel, Tom - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2010
The paper investigates the impact of R&D subsidies on regional innovation efficiency. Building on a rich panel data set … regions with low innovation capacities benefit from subsidized inter-regional cooperation involving partners with diverse … industrial and sectoral backgrounds. Establishing inter-regional cooperation that give access to related knowledge and skills is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008763404
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Regional heterogeneity and interregional research spillovers in European innovation: modeling and policy implications
Guastella, Gianni; Oort, Frank van - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2015
In agglomeration studies, the effects of various regional externalities related to knowledge spillovers remain largely … regional data, including a spatial trend to control for unexplained spatial variation in innovation. Accounting for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011194441
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Innovation in creative cities: Evidence from British small firms
Lee, Neil; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2014
Creative cities are seen as important sites for the generation of new ideas, products and processes. Yet, beyond case studies of a few high-profile cities, there is little empirical evidence on the link between local creative industries concentration and innovation. This paper addresses this gap...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010970533
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Beyond clusters: Fostering innovation through a differentiated and combined network approach
Visser, Evert-Jan; Atzema, Oedzge - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2007
Over the past decades, economic and innovation policy across Europe moved in the direction of creating regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005345957
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Are technological gatekeepers constraining my cluster? Unfolding the paradox of gatekeepers resilience across cluster life cycle stages
Hervas-Oliver, Jose-Luis - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2012
The economic geography literature assumes that large leading firms (technology gatekeepers)(TGs) with high absorptive capacity and high-intensity R&D expenditures, shape the district learning process. However, there is an absence in the literature of a dynamic analysis of the role of the TG....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548639
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Constructing regional advantage: Platform policies based on related variety and differentiated knowledge bases
Asheim, Bjørn; Boschma, Ron A.; Cooke, Philip - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2007
The article presents a regional innovation policy model, based on the idea of constructing regional advantage. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545395
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Innovation in Russia: the territorial dimension
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Jaax, Alexander - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2015
this gap by applying an ‘augmented’ regional knowledge function approach to examine the territorial dynamics of innovation … in Russia. The empirical results suggest that regional R&D investments are strong predictors of local innovative … performance. However, R&D activities are inadequately connected to regional human capital resources. The activities of foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261293
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Complexity Thinking and Evolutionary Economic Geography
Martin, Ron; Sunley, Peter - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2007
Thus far, most of the work towards the construction of an evolutionary economic geography has drawn upon a particular version of evolutionary economics, namely the Nelson-Winter framework, which blends Darwinian concepts and metaphors (especially variety, selection, novelty and inheritance) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005345960