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Developing cross-industry innovation capability: regional drivers and indicators within firms

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  • Elisabet S. Hauge
  • Nina Kyllingstad
  • Natalia Maehle
  • Ann Camilla Schulze-Krogh

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The role of firms in the process of regional renewal and path development is a somewhat neglected area in the existing literature. With few exceptions, the literature is mainly concerned with aggregated development paths. To cover this gap, the current study turns its attention to cross-industry innovation capability (CIIC) building in firms and discusses how conditions for innovation and learning in a region drive this process. We introduce a new concept of CIIC – that is, the firm’s ability to transform knowledge and ideas from different industries into new products, processes and systems and/or its ability to adapt existing products, processes and systems to new industries – and identify its drivers and indicators. The discussion is supported by empirical studies of firms in three Norwegian case regions that undergo the restructuring process due to the recent severe decrease in oil prices. Our empirical data demonstrate that organizationally thick and diversified regions are more favourable for firms’ abilities to develop CIIC and cross-industry innovation activity. As a result, we emphasize that future regional policies should have a stronger focus on the linkages between internal firm characteristics and regional innovation systems to contribute to the firms’ absorptive capacity for developing cross-industry innovation.

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  • Elisabet S. Hauge & Nina Kyllingstad & Natalia Maehle & Ann Camilla Schulze-Krogh, 2017. "Developing cross-industry innovation capability: regional drivers and indicators within firms," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(3), pages 388-405, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:25:y:2017:i:3:p:388-405
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2016.1276158
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