The paper focuses on the territorial shaping of knowledge dynamics as one of the driving forces for innovation … ongoing restructuring of global value chains and the changes in the organization of innovation 'combinatorial knowledge … dynamics' gain a more prominent role in innovation. Firms are facing an increasing need to combine heterogeneous knowledge …

by territorial innovation models. The territorial knowledge dynamics perspective directs attention to the ways in which … firms and other actors combine regional and extra-regional relations. It deals with the spatial aspects of innovation … regional knowledge anchoring. The paper presents a case of innovation in the automotive sector in the Västra Götaland region of …