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Building sustainable competitive advantage from knowledge in the region: The industrial enzymes industry

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  • Jesper Norus

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This paper analyses the foundations of regional knowledge and its long-term impact on the region's companies' and how a particular knowledge has developed an ability to stay competitive within a specific technological field. The case illustrates how the Copenhagen region has been able to develop a dominating position in the global market for industrial enzymes from 1870--2004. The case of industrial enzymes shows how a region has been able to build sustainable competitive advantages from its distinctive competencies. This is done through a mixture of outsourcing and in sourcing of competencies, knowledge and technologies from other regions in a ramified set of interacting networks.

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  • Jesper Norus, 2005. "Building sustainable competitive advantage from knowledge in the region: The industrial enzymes industry," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(5), pages 681-696, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:14:y:2005:i:5:p:681-696
    DOI: 10.1080/09654310500500239
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    1. Hippel, Eric von., 1990. "The impact of "sticky" information on innovation and problem-solving," Working papers 3147-90., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management.
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