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Regional Innovation and Learning Systems, Clusters, and Local and Global Value Chains

In: Innovation Clusters and Interregional Competition

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  • Philip Cooke

    (Cardiff University)

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Today, the concept of ‘Innovation Systems’ is widely used in discourse and policies to stimulate economic development through upgrading firms for enhanced competitiveness. Productivity increments are key to enhanced competitiveness, and innovation accounts for the overwhelming majority of productivity gains in most of the world’s leading economies. So creating and sustaining innovation is the key to improved competitiveness. Much of the early knowledge about these relationships derived from writers updating and correcting some of the crucial insights of Schumpeter (1975) on innovation and entrepreneurship. These new thinkers utilized the notion of the national economy as their canvas, seeking to understand if it retained force under conditions of globalization (Lundvall, 1992; Nelson, 1993) although subsequently the difficulty of limiting the scope of analysis in that way was recognized (Edquist, 1997). Hence the importance of sectoral and regional innovation systems was highlighted. With regard to sectoral systems, interesting if somewhat constrained use of the ‘system’ concept developed, as in the work of Teece (1988) and as ‘technological systems’ (Carlsson and Jacobsson, 1994). That firm-focused approach sought to show the detailed repercussions of an innovation upon the internal and external relations of the firm, its technology, skills-mix and marketing in the specific sector in question.

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  • Philip Cooke, 2003. "Regional Innovation and Learning Systems, Clusters, and Local and Global Value Chains," Advances in Spatial Science, in: Johannes Bröcker & Dirk Dohse & Rüdiger Soltwedel (ed.), Innovation Clusters and Interregional Competition, chapter 3, pages 28-51, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-540-24760-9_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24760-9_3
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    1. Bettina Riedel, 2009. "A value chain and cluster perspective on competitiveness of European fresh vegetable production – Case studies from Germany, Italy, and Spain," DEIAgra Working Papers 9001, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Department of Agricultural Economics and Engineering, revised Oct 2009.
    2. Susanne Mueller‐Using & Wieslaw Urban & Jan Wedemeier, 2020. "Internationalization of SMEs in the Baltic Sea Region: Barriers of cross‐national collaboration considering regional innovation strategies for smart specialization," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 51(4), pages 1471-1490, December.
    3. Shenyi Xu & Ganghui Lian & Miaoyuan Song & Aiting Xu, 2024. "Do global innovation networks influence the status of global value chains? Based on a patent cooperation network perspective," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-12, December.
    4. Dominique Lepore, 2024. "Intermediaries in Innovation Systems: Match or Mismatch?," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 15(3), pages 12678-12708, September.
    5. Siudek, Aleksandra & Klepacka, Anna M., 2020. "Energy Clusters In Poland – A Theoretical Approac," Roczniki (Annals), Polish Association of Agricultural Economists and Agribusiness - Stowarzyszenie Ekonomistow Rolnictwa e Agrobiznesu (SERiA), vol. 2020(4).
    6. Riedel, Bettina, 2009. "A value chain and cluster perspective on competitiveness of European fresh vegetable production – Case studies from Germany, Italy, and Spain," DEIAgra Working Papers 54094, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Engineering.

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