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Building absorptive capacity in a learning region: a socio-technical model

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  • Tony Kinder
  • Nick Lancaster

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In the ten years since Cohen and Levinthal's seminal paper on absorptive capacity significant changes have occurred in the types and forms of commercial knowledge, networking organisational forms and the direction of innovation and the technological regime. This paper uses Molina's socio-technical constituency approach to structure an assessment of recent debates around an economic development strategy for West Lothian, Scotland which challenge some of the original formulation of absorptive capacity, and update other aspects, contributing to current theoretical and policy debate on learning regions. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

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  • Tony Kinder & Nick Lancaster, 2001. "Building absorptive capacity in a learning region: a socio-technical model," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 28(1), pages 23-40, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:28:y:2001:i:1:p:23-40
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    1. Kinder, T., 2002. "Introducing an infrastructure for joined-up-government in local public administration: a West Lothian case study," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 31(3), pages 329-355, March.
    2. Kinder, Tony, 2003. "Go with the flow--a conceptual framework for supply relations in the era of the extended enterprise," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 32(3), pages 503-523, March.

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