IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/wiw/wiwrsa/ersa04p96.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Co-operation between companies and the advisory system in innovations – a comparative analysis of Northern Germany and Western Denmark

Author

Listed:
  • Andreas P. Cornett

Abstract

Innovations and the capacity to innovate are crucial factors in the development of a firm and its ability to adapt to changes in the external environment. Growing attention has been paid to the mechanisms facilitating innovation in firms, both in large, small and medium-sized enterprises. As a consequence, attention has been on the role of innovation policy in economic policy in general and regional development in particular. The aim of this paper is to analyze the linkages between the business advisory system’s efforts to promote innovation and the innovative activity within the firm with special attention to small and medium sized enterprises. The main aspects addressed deal with entities and relations of the innovative environment. The focal point is the interaction between the analyzed business entity and the external environment as a part of a broader network of innovative relations covering intra-firm as well as extra-firm relations and processes. The paper will highlight three aspects of the topic: • In the first part of the paper concepts and policies of innovation are discussed with regard to their ability to influence economic development. • The second section is dedicated to an introduction to the role of the advisory system in the creation of a regional innovative business environment, and will in particular focus on the comparative analysis of regional systems of innovation in an organizational and structural perspective. • The next section analyzes the regional system of innovation based on a survey of manufacturing firms and advisory organizations in Western Denmark and Northern Germany. The essential objective of this survey is to identify the potential of, and the crucial obstacles to a proactive regional innovation policy, since previous studies have shown that in particular small firms have difficulties in using the advisory system and the services offered. Based on this analysis, the study aims at contributing to the ongoing discussion of the role of public support schemes in innovation and technology in a regional and organizational perspective, based on the comparative analysis of regions in two countries. Key words: Regional system of innovation - Advisory system - Business incubators and science parks - R & D programs

Suggested Citation

  • Andreas P. Cornett, 2004. "Co-operation between companies and the advisory system in innovations – a comparative analysis of Northern Germany and Western Denmark," ERSA conference papers ersa04p96, European Regional Science Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:wiw:wiwrsa:ersa04p96
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www-sre.wu.ac.at/ersa/ersaconfs/ersa04/PDF/96.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Zoltan J. Acs & Attila Varga, 2008. "Geography, Endogenous Growth, and Innovation," Chapters, in: Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy, chapter 12, pages 152-168, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Oliver Dannenberg & Jørn Damm Thaysen, 2005. "Innovationsnetzwerke bei Klein- und Mittelunternehmen: Ein binationaler Vergleich," Discussion Papers 008, Europa-Universität Flensburg, International Institute of Management.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Burhan Can Karahasan, 2014. "The Spatial Distribution Of New Firms:Can Peripheral Areas Escape From The Curse Of Remoteness?," Romanian Journal of Regional Science, Romanian Regional Science Association, vol. 8(2), pages 1-28, DECEMBER.
    2. Zoltan J. Acs & Catherine Armington, 2008. "Employment Growth and Entrepreneurial Activity in Cities," Chapters, in: Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy, chapter 25, pages 353-369, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    3. Quatraro, Francesco, 2008. "Regional Knowledge Base and Productivity Growth: The Evidence of Italian Manufacturing," Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis LEI & BRICK - Laboratory of Economics of Innovation "Franco Momigliano", Bureau of Research in Innovation, Complexity and Knowledge, Collegio 200810, University of Turin.
    4. Muhammad Naveed Iftikhar & Maha Ahmad & David B. Audretsch, 0. "The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship: the developing country context," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 0, pages 1-20.
    5. Varga, Attila, 2004. "Az egyetemi kutatások regionális gazdasági hatásai a nemzetközi szakirodalom tükrében [Regional economic effects of university researches in the light of international literature]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(3), pages 259-275.
    6. Zoltán J. Ács & Lawrence A. Plummer & Ryan Sutter, 2015. "Penetrating the knowledge filter in “rust belt” economies," Chapters, in: Global Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Incentives, chapter 17, pages 320-343, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    7. Attila Varga & Zoltan Acs & Luc Anselin, 2003. "Regional Innovation in the US over Space and Time," Papers on Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy 2004-18, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Group.
    8. Dirk Czarnitzki & Hanna Hottenrott, 2009. "Are Local Milieus The Key To Innovation Performance?," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 49(1), pages 81-112, February.
    9. Karima Kourtit & Peter Nijkamp, 2013. "In Search Of Creative Champions In High-Tech Spaces: A Spatial Application Of Strategic Performance Management," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 53(5), pages 749-777, December.
    10. Hugo Pinto & João Guerreiro, 2010. "Innovation regional planning and latent dimensions: the case of the Algarve region," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 44(2), pages 315-329, April.
    11. Zoltan Acs & Mark Sanders, 2011. "A Theory of Entrepreneurial Rents in Endogenous Growth: Implications for Regional Innovation Policies," Chapters, in: Robert Stimson & Roger R. Stough & Peter Nijkamp (ed.), Endogenous Regional Development, chapter 8, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    12. Andreas P. Cornett & Nils Karl Sørensen, 2016. "Innovation, income and regional development: An assessment of the importance of differences in regional potentials," ERSA conference papers ersa16p97, European Regional Science Association.
    13. Attila Varga, 2007. "From the Geography of Innovation to Development Policy Analysis: The GMR-approach," Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES, issue 87-88, pages 83-101.
    14. Karl, Helmut & Matus Velasco, Ximena Fernanda, 2004. "Lessons for regional policy from the new economic geography and the endogenous growth theory," Studies in Spatial Development: Chapters, in: Employment and regional development policy: Market efficiency versus policy intervention, pages 71-89, ARL – Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft.
    15. Karima Kourtit & Peter Nijkamp, 2013. "In Search of Creative Champions in High-Tech Spaces," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 13-193/VIII, Tinbergen Institute.
    16. Qizhen Li & Saroj Thapa & Xijun Hu & Ziwei Luo & David J. Gibson, 2022. "The Relationship between Urban Green Space and Urban Expansion Based on Gravity Methods," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(9), pages 1-17, April.
    17. Cabrer-Borras, Bernardi & Serrano-Domingo, Guadalupe, 2007. "Innovation and R&D spillover effects in Spanish regions: A spatial approach," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 36(9), pages 1357-1371, November.
    18. Makkonen Teemu, 2011. "Innovation and Regional Socio-Economic Development - Evidence from the Finnish Local Administrative Units (1)," Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, Sciendo, vol. 15(15), pages 27-42, January.
    19. Varga, Attila, 2020. "A tudástermelési függvénytől a fejlesztéspolitikai hatáselemzésig [From the knowledge production function to development policy-impact modelling]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(6), pages 537-556.
    20. Attila Varga, 2007. "GMR-Hungary: A Complex Macro-Regional Model for the Analysis of Development Policy Impacts on the Hungarian Economy," UPFBE Working Paper Series 2007/4, Faculty of Business and Economics, University Pécs.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    regional system of innovation - advisory system - business incubators and science parks - r & d programs;

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wiw:wiwrsa:ersa04p96. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Gunther Maier (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.ersa.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.