Pub Date : 2018-03-20DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2018.10011600
Artur Tavares Vilas Boas Ribeiro, E. Zancul, J. Axel-berg, G. Plonski
The present study aims to identify patterns and roles that can be played by research universities in emerging entrepreneurship ecosystems. Its methodology is based on a case study of the University of Sao Paulo, analysing three startups born inside the university and the characteristics of its development processes. As a conclusion, we identify strategies to deal with bottlenecks and enhancers of an emerging entrepreneurship ecosystem, as well as patterns on how a university can stimulate entrepreneurship in a context of regional constraints - such as: 1) building interfaces between academic environments; 2) applying processes such as customer development using university capabilities; 3) empowering grassroots movements for entrepreneurship.
{"title":"Can universities play an active role in fostering entrepreneurship in emerging ecosystems? A case study of the University of São Paulo","authors":"Artur Tavares Vilas Boas Ribeiro, E. Zancul, J. Axel-berg, G. Plonski","doi":"10.1504/IJIRD.2018.10011600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIRD.2018.10011600","url":null,"abstract":"The present study aims to identify patterns and roles that can be played by research universities in emerging entrepreneurship ecosystems. Its methodology is based on a case study of the University of Sao Paulo, analysing three startups born inside the university and the characteristics of its development processes. As a conclusion, we identify strategies to deal with bottlenecks and enhancers of an emerging entrepreneurship ecosystem, as well as patterns on how a university can stimulate entrepreneurship in a context of regional constraints - such as: 1) building interfaces between academic environments; 2) applying processes such as customer development using university capabilities; 3) empowering grassroots movements for entrepreneurship.","PeriodicalId":260303,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129277741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-09-04DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2017.086204
M. Lindberg, Jennie Gelter, Helena Karlberg
The article presents a case study of tourism networking in the regional destination Swedish Lapland, exploring how 'place innovation' can be used as a new scientific and practical concept to study co-innovative development of attractive and sustainable places. Drawing upon previous studies of inclusive innovation, place innovation and tourism destination development, it is distinguished how the networking among the involved entrepreneurs, designers, architects, destination management organisations, business promoters, municipalities, researchers etc., is characterised by negotiations in relation to the main components, target groups and innovation forms of place innovation. These encompass the components of configuration, content and communication, the target groups of visitors, residents and businesses, as well as the innovation forms of service innovation, user-driven innovation and social innovation. The specific set of interacting actors in the studied network made the negotiations result in a prioritisation of the commercial content over the public and civil content, of visitors over residents and businesses, and of service innovation and social innovation over user-driven innovation, affecting the prospects of attaining attractive and sustainable regional destinations.
{"title":"Tourism networking for regional place innovation in Swedish Lapland","authors":"M. Lindberg, Jennie Gelter, Helena Karlberg","doi":"10.1504/IJIRD.2017.086204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIRD.2017.086204","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents a case study of tourism networking in the regional destination Swedish Lapland, exploring how 'place innovation' can be used as a new scientific and practical concept to study co-innovative development of attractive and sustainable places. Drawing upon previous studies of inclusive innovation, place innovation and tourism destination development, it is distinguished how the networking among the involved entrepreneurs, designers, architects, destination management organisations, business promoters, municipalities, researchers etc., is characterised by negotiations in relation to the main components, target groups and innovation forms of place innovation. These encompass the components of configuration, content and communication, the target groups of visitors, residents and businesses, as well as the innovation forms of service innovation, user-driven innovation and social innovation. The specific set of interacting actors in the studied network made the negotiations result in a prioritisation of the commercial content over the public and civil content, of visitors over residents and businesses, and of service innovation and social innovation over user-driven innovation, affecting the prospects of attaining attractive and sustainable regional destinations.","PeriodicalId":260303,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122020397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-09-04DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2017.10007297
O. Mauroner, J. Zorn
Cluster initiatives are believed to be important ways of increasing the competitiveness of companies within a region. The establishment of a strong cluster brand is considered a prerequisite for the success of a cluster initiative. Up to now, however, regional cluster brands have remained relatively unexplored. This study aims to transfer the identity-based understanding of brands to regional cluster brands and to analyse the following topics with a qualitative study using 13 interviews with actors from two different clusters as well as secondary data (e.g., homepages, image brochures, project documentation): functions of regional cluster brands; role of cluster management; importance of brand origin as identity anchor; operationalisation of brand identity.
{"title":"Cluster branding - a case study on regional cluster initiatives, cluster management, and cluster brands","authors":"O. Mauroner, J. Zorn","doi":"10.1504/IJIRD.2017.10007297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIRD.2017.10007297","url":null,"abstract":"Cluster initiatives are believed to be important ways of increasing the competitiveness of companies within a region. The establishment of a strong cluster brand is considered a prerequisite for the success of a cluster initiative. Up to now, however, regional cluster brands have remained relatively unexplored. This study aims to transfer the identity-based understanding of brands to regional cluster brands and to analyse the following topics with a qualitative study using 13 interviews with actors from two different clusters as well as secondary data (e.g., homepages, image brochures, project documentation): functions of regional cluster brands; role of cluster management; importance of brand origin as identity anchor; operationalisation of brand identity.","PeriodicalId":260303,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development","volume":"290 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116239614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-09-04DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2017.10007286
IlÃdio Tomás Lopes
Over the last decades, companies have been aligning its strategy with focus on research and development activities, towards future economic benefits. These innovative activities are, in many cases, associated to changes by introducing new methods, ideas, processes, products, and learning practices. Innovation also translates the ability to produce and transform knowledge, contributing to potential economic returns. The current research aims to identify whether development expenditures (application of research findings or other knowledge), recognised in the firms' annual statement of financial position, have a significant impact on Iberian firms' revenues and on market valuation. Based on the 68 Iberian non-financial listed companies, with active development projects over the period 2010-2015, an econometric framework was regressed. Portugal and Spain are significantly aligned on the impact of development expenditures on predicting firm's revenue and firm's market valuation. This intangible asset, when managed together with other intangible resources, can generate higher value-added inflows, if compared with its isolated effects. Research did not evidence any significant time effects neither activity sector effects.
{"title":"Development expenditures as source of revenue and market valuation: evidence from the Iberian cluster","authors":"IlÃdio Tomás Lopes","doi":"10.1504/IJIRD.2017.10007286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIRD.2017.10007286","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last decades, companies have been aligning its strategy with focus on research and development activities, towards future economic benefits. These innovative activities are, in many cases, associated to changes by introducing new methods, ideas, processes, products, and learning practices. Innovation also translates the ability to produce and transform knowledge, contributing to potential economic returns. The current research aims to identify whether development expenditures (application of research findings or other knowledge), recognised in the firms' annual statement of financial position, have a significant impact on Iberian firms' revenues and on market valuation. Based on the 68 Iberian non-financial listed companies, with active development projects over the period 2010-2015, an econometric framework was regressed. Portugal and Spain are significantly aligned on the impact of development expenditures on predicting firm's revenue and firm's market valuation. This intangible asset, when managed together with other intangible resources, can generate higher value-added inflows, if compared with its isolated effects. Research did not evidence any significant time effects neither activity sector effects.","PeriodicalId":260303,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129919074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-09-04DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2017.10007277
Yuzhuo Cai, Rhiannon Pugh, Cui Liu
This paper develops a framework for analysing the role of innovation policy in regional innovation system (RIS) development. It specifically focuses on the influence of policy on a set of enabling conditions for RIS that have not been taken fully into account in previous innovation policy studies. Drawing on relevant literature on innovation systems, such as innovation policy, triple helix and policy mix etc., the enabling conditions for RIS development identified include both tangible and intangible dimensions of regional contexts, hinging around a range of wider institutional backdrops. The framework proposed provides an effective analytical tool for innovation policy evaluation and for designing innovation policies.
{"title":"A framework for analysing the role of innovation policy in regional innovation system development","authors":"Yuzhuo Cai, Rhiannon Pugh, Cui Liu","doi":"10.1504/IJIRD.2017.10007277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIRD.2017.10007277","url":null,"abstract":"This paper develops a framework for analysing the role of innovation policy in regional innovation system (RIS) development. It specifically focuses on the influence of policy on a set of enabling conditions for RIS that have not been taken fully into account in previous innovation policy studies. Drawing on relevant literature on innovation systems, such as innovation policy, triple helix and policy mix etc., the enabling conditions for RIS development identified include both tangible and intangible dimensions of regional contexts, hinging around a range of wider institutional backdrops. The framework proposed provides an effective analytical tool for innovation policy evaluation and for designing innovation policies.","PeriodicalId":260303,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131345184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-09-30DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2016.079454
F. O. Nieva
This study was centred on the empowerment of women social entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia. Specifically, the study answered the following sub-problems: 1) the priority issues of women social entrepreneurship; 2) the characteristics and practices of implementers along social service, social activism, and social entrepreneurship; 3) the challenges faced by women social entrepreneurs in implementing social entrepreneurial activities along financing, regulatory restriction and framework, and technical support; 4) the strategic measures to foster social entrepreneurship along access to funding, socio-economic entrepreneurship culture, taxation and regulatory, education and training, and support coordination. The following were the salient findings: 1) 'skills development training' was the priority of women social entrepreneurship; 2) the characteristics and practices of implementers was 'social activism'; 3) the challenges faced by women social entrepreneurs in implementing social entrepreneurial activities was 'regulatory restriction and framework'; 4) the strategic measures to foster social entrepreneurship was 'education and training'.
{"title":"Towards the empowerment of women: a social entrepreneurship approach in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia","authors":"F. O. Nieva","doi":"10.1504/IJIRD.2016.079454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIRD.2016.079454","url":null,"abstract":"This study was centred on the empowerment of women social entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia. Specifically, the study answered the following sub-problems: 1) the priority issues of women social entrepreneurship; 2) the characteristics and practices of implementers along social service, social activism, and social entrepreneurship; 3) the challenges faced by women social entrepreneurs in implementing social entrepreneurial activities along financing, regulatory restriction and framework, and technical support; 4) the strategic measures to foster social entrepreneurship along access to funding, socio-economic entrepreneurship culture, taxation and regulatory, education and training, and support coordination. The following were the salient findings: 1) 'skills development training' was the priority of women social entrepreneurship; 2) the characteristics and practices of implementers was 'social activism'; 3) the challenges faced by women social entrepreneurs in implementing social entrepreneurial activities was 'regulatory restriction and framework'; 4) the strategic measures to foster social entrepreneurship was 'education and training'.","PeriodicalId":260303,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124708686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-09-30DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2016.079462
R. Klingler‐Vidra, M. Kenney, Dan Breznitz
The success of Silicon Valley as a hub for rapid-innovation growth has motivated policy-makers around the world to initiate policies trying to mimic it. These policy initiatives raise the question of whether globalisation should encourage innovation policy-makers to aim for institutional convergence and close imitation, or for institutional hybridisation and local experimentation. This paper explores this question by focusing on venture capital creation policy. Using two national cases, Israel and Taiwan, we show that policy effectiveness is not the result of simple imitation. Instead, policy performance is determined by degree of fit with local financial conditions and the position of the local ICT industry within global production networks. We then consider the implications of our study for understanding the development of national VC industries and the industries they fund. The primary message being that there is no singular model for venture capital market development. Instead, policy-makers need to understand the local context with its assets and liabilities. Of particular importance are local financing conditions, firm capabilities, and the existing position of local firms within the global production networks of the ICT industry.
{"title":"Policies for financing entrepreneurship through venture capital: learning from the successes of Israel and Taiwan","authors":"R. Klingler‐Vidra, M. Kenney, Dan Breznitz","doi":"10.1504/IJIRD.2016.079462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIRD.2016.079462","url":null,"abstract":"The success of Silicon Valley as a hub for rapid-innovation growth has motivated policy-makers around the world to initiate policies trying to mimic it. These policy initiatives raise the question of whether globalisation should encourage innovation policy-makers to aim for institutional convergence and close imitation, or for institutional hybridisation and local experimentation. This paper explores this question by focusing on venture capital creation policy. Using two national cases, Israel and Taiwan, we show that policy effectiveness is not the result of simple imitation. Instead, policy performance is determined by degree of fit with local financial conditions and the position of the local ICT industry within global production networks. We then consider the implications of our study for understanding the development of national VC industries and the industries they fund. The primary message being that there is no singular model for venture capital market development. Instead, policy-makers need to understand the local context with its assets and liabilities. Of particular importance are local financing conditions, firm capabilities, and the existing position of local firms within the global production networks of the ICT industry.","PeriodicalId":260303,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126555676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-09-30DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2016.079470
H. Melkas, Satu Pekkarinen
Small- and medium-sized enterprises aim at user-oriented, desirable products, but rarely employ design in a strategic manner. This paper focuses on SMEs as users and non-users of external design services. Views concerning impacts - experienced or anticipated, positive or negative - of using such services are sought from interviews. The study makes visible and categorises thirteen SMEs' views of impacts; it thus builds up the basis for future design use in regions. The results show that both users and non-users are sometimes unaware of how design services could be used in their products. More knowledge is needed concerning what design is all about. It is suggested that design services could be seen from an increasingly functional viewpoint. Making a distinction between mechanistic and functional viewpoints might advance holistic discussions of design understanding in the future; focusing on how design and business interact and serve companies, organisations and people in a novel way.
{"title":"SMEs and regional design services for innovation: experienced and expected impacts on users and non-users","authors":"H. Melkas, Satu Pekkarinen","doi":"10.1504/IJIRD.2016.079470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIRD.2016.079470","url":null,"abstract":"Small- and medium-sized enterprises aim at user-oriented, desirable products, but rarely employ design in a strategic manner. This paper focuses on SMEs as users and non-users of external design services. Views concerning impacts - experienced or anticipated, positive or negative - of using such services are sought from interviews. The study makes visible and categorises thirteen SMEs' views of impacts; it thus builds up the basis for future design use in regions. The results show that both users and non-users are sometimes unaware of how design services could be used in their products. More knowledge is needed concerning what design is all about. It is suggested that design services could be seen from an increasingly functional viewpoint. Making a distinction between mechanistic and functional viewpoints might advance holistic discussions of design understanding in the future; focusing on how design and business interact and serve companies, organisations and people in a novel way.","PeriodicalId":260303,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116928128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-07-25DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2016.077889
B. Spigel
Researchers and policymakers are increasingly employing the concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems to understand the concentration of high growth ventures in certain regions. Ecosystems represent the economic, social and policy environment surrounding the entrepreneurship process. Public and privately run entrepreneurship support organisations (ESOs) form a critical part of entrepreneurial ecosystems by providing training and resources to entrepreneurs and new ventures. However, the role of ESOs within ecosystems is poorly understood with little conceptual or empirical discussions about how they contribute to the development of successful entrepreneurial ecosystems. To address this gap this paper employs the concept of institutional thickness to identify the optimum structure of support programs within a region. The role of institutional thickness is explored through an investigation of entrepreneurship support programs aimed at technology entrepreneurs in Edinburgh, UK. Forty-three ESOs are identified and their actives and types of support they provide analysed. The paper argues that there is the need for a new approach to the role of ESOs within ecosystems that looks beyond a single program but instead embraces a more holistic perspective that sees how they work in conjunction to provide support for firms throughout the venture creation and growth process.
{"title":"Developing and governing entrepreneurial ecosystems: the structure of entrepreneurial support programs in Edinburgh, Scotland","authors":"B. Spigel","doi":"10.1504/IJIRD.2016.077889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIRD.2016.077889","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers and policymakers are increasingly employing the concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems to understand the concentration of high growth ventures in certain regions. Ecosystems represent the economic, social and policy environment surrounding the entrepreneurship process. Public and privately run entrepreneurship support organisations (ESOs) form a critical part of entrepreneurial ecosystems by providing training and resources to entrepreneurs and new ventures. However, the role of ESOs within ecosystems is poorly understood with little conceptual or empirical discussions about how they contribute to the development of successful entrepreneurial ecosystems. To address this gap this paper employs the concept of institutional thickness to identify the optimum structure of support programs within a region. The role of institutional thickness is explored through an investigation of entrepreneurship support programs aimed at technology entrepreneurs in Edinburgh, UK. Forty-three ESOs are identified and their actives and types of support they provide analysed. The paper argues that there is the need for a new approach to the role of ESOs within ecosystems that looks beyond a single program but instead embraces a more holistic perspective that sees how they work in conjunction to provide support for firms throughout the venture creation and growth process.","PeriodicalId":260303,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126258093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-07-25DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2016.077879
Petra Merenheimo
This article explores how societal understandings frame care sector entrepreneurship in Finland. Two reforms in the care market are analysed through Bourdieu's concepts of cultural and symbolic capital. The reforms emphasise the relevance of technology and tangible assets to regional economic growth and the financial survival of the public sector. In contrast, the benefits of non-technological types of assets are marginalised. Marginal opportunities are based on caring skills, whereas economically relevant opportunities are based on technology. Due to the horizontal segregation, women's opportunities are marginalised. This emancipating article highlights how self-evident societal understandings make investments in non-technological innovations look inferior to technological ones. The analysis is limited to the Finnish care service sector and its two care market reforms.
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