Pub Date : 2012-05-02DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2012.046585
Lucio Carlos Freire Gibb
This article investigates the innovative city region of the San Francisco Bay Area. However, it does not focus on its prosperous places, but instead analyses one of its social, economic and geographical fringes: the city of Vallejo. The municipality received the infamous distinction of being the largest city in the USA to have been officially bankrupt, from May 2008 to November 2011. Findings are based on an historical-economic-geographic study and dozens of interviews. It is argued that Vallejo, and more importantly the San Francisco city region, requires a deep process of socioeconomic innovation. This article explores the concept of City Region Innovation System Promotion, still in a preliminary stage, as a potential way to improve entrepreneurial dynamics and innovation in the ‘broad sense’. The suggestions here can be potentially useful for city regions in Western countries.
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Pub Date : 2012-05-02DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2012.046577
Y. Spanos
This study examines antecedents of product innovation performance in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Drawing on the resource-based theory, it is argued that because innovation is a complex and highly demanding activity, the capacity to innovate should be viewed as a configuration of tightly coupled functional and administrative competencies that together, not in isolation, explain product innovation. In addition, it is hypothesised that technological collaboration with third parties is an effective means for SMEs to overcome their key liability with respect to innovation, that is, their endemic resource scarcity. Empirical results obtained from a sample of Greek manufacturing firms confirm these predictions. The study’s main contribution is to provide a more holistic view of SME’s innovation behaviour by adopting a configurational perspective.
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Pub Date : 2012-05-02DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2012.046581
Annica Sandström, Håkan Ylinenpää
While networks between research, industry and the public sector are regarded as prerequisites for innovation and regional development, establishing these structures is not trivial and their success is far from given. To deepen our knowledge of these networks, a dynamic model describing the coordinating functions and their drivers within such constellations is presented and empirically examined by means of an explorative case study. The model illustrates the challenges of cooperation in cross-sector constellations, which stem from different logics and expectations, and how different actors’ degree of commitment varies over time. In successful cross-sector collaboration, actors fulfil different functions during different phases, and leadership shifts over time. A greater understanding of these dynamics can enhance public policy initiatives aimed at sustaining cooperation for innovation and regional growth.
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Pub Date : 2012-01-30DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2012.045138
B. Kenny, H. Vredenburg, A. Lucas
Social and environmental pressures are having a profound effect on natural resource firms and regional development. The traditional application of law has fallen short in addressing these new societal pressures. This paper uses an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on management and legal scholarship, to explain how stakeholder generated managerial knowledge creation and innovation may be stimulated by innovative approaches to the application of natural resources law. Using the Canadian oil and gas industry as a case study, the article shows that this new managerial knowledge, in turn, provides firms and the regional industry with competitive advantage. In resource-based regional economies facing pressure from global societal calls for sustainable development, law and how it is applied is a critical variable in fostering corporate innovation and regional development.
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Pub Date : 2012-01-30DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2012.045142
R. Pirinen
Higher education institutions are traditionally seen as producers of new scientific and practical knowledge and technology. However, a repositioning is taking place due to cooperation in value networks, co-created innovations, the contributions of lead innovations and regional development that has an impact on social and global improvement. Currently, new forms of action, integration and collaboration are required for the creation of innovation in services, technology, the economy and society. This study presents the two action research cycles that address regional development within Laurea University of Applied Sciences. Both cycles include an evaluation by the Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council. The aim of the actualisation is to continuously integrate the three statutory tasks of universities of applied sciences: education, research and development, and regional development.
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Pub Date : 2012-01-30DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2012.045140
Y. Krozer
The regional dynamics of energy innovation, in particular the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy in the EU, is discussed within the framework of neo-Schumpeterian theory. The EU’s 4.2% average annual growth in renewable energy production in the last decade has been accompanied by diverging performances among the EU countries. Regional performances within a country also vary. The periphery regions seem to underperform, as is shown for five regions in Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. Cases of innovation networks in five forerunning regions, in Austria, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands, suggest that the development of renewable energy emerges from social innovations aimed at regional development, and it is driven by those change agents that can pull together national and regional policy instruments for project implementation. Based on an assessment of a province in the Netherlands, it is concluded that this development leads to the socially beneficial scaling up of renewable energy, albeit requiring capital at low interest rates.
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Pub Date : 2012-01-30DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2012.045141
Amira Vejzagic-Ramhorst, P. Ketikidis, R. Huggins
This paper aims to give an overview of the extant literature on the various aspects related to social capital (definition, conceptual framework(s), and empirical research), especially with regard to cluster development and place-based learning. The paper also aims to extend the discourse on social capital as it relates to firm learning in transition economies, in particular South East Europe. The paper finds that while there is significant evidence of an apparent link between social capital and the economic and innovative performance of firms and the places in which they are located, the differing definitions and measures used to capture these links leads to an interpretive fuzziness across the literature as a whole. It is further found that the lack of social capital among firms in South East Europe, as manifested by low levels of trust, is potentially a key barrier undermining the development of industrial clusters.
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Pub Date : 2012-01-30DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2012.045139
Loukas K. Tsironis, Alexandros G. Psychogios
E-business is about more than just technology. It’s about thinking what your customers need and adopting web-enable and other information and communication technologies to increase business performance and success. Web-based technologies can be used to build relationships with customers, automate ordering, allow secure payment, speed processes and significantly reduce costs. Whatever the nature of the business and its deliverables (i.e., goods, services, or even parts to a factory), a coordination of its activities using technology is needed in order to make the most of streamlined and tightly integrated business processes. Therefore, it is essential for the e-business organisations to run in a business excellence environment. This paper seeks to present and explain a proposed systematic framework that enables organisations to develop self-assessment processes towards e-business excellence.
{"title":"Towards a systematic e-business excellence framework","authors":"Loukas K. Tsironis, Alexandros G. Psychogios","doi":"10.1504/IJIRD.2012.045139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIRD.2012.045139","url":null,"abstract":"E-business is about more than just technology. It’s about thinking what your customers need and adopting web-enable and other information and communication technologies to increase business performance and success. Web-based technologies can be used to build relationships with customers, automate ordering, allow secure payment, speed processes and significantly reduce costs. Whatever the nature of the business and its deliverables (i.e., goods, services, or even parts to a factory), a coordination of its activities using technology is needed in order to make the most of streamlined and tightly integrated business processes. Therefore, it is essential for the e-business organisations to run in a business excellence environment. This paper seeks to present and explain a proposed systematic framework that enables organisations to develop self-assessment processes towards e-business excellence.","PeriodicalId":260303,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116663778","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 : 2011-11-02DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2011.043468
A. Arbuthnott, Martin Hannibal, M. Nybacka
The importance of developing regional industry clusters has grown alongside the need for industries and universities to be more interlinked. A regional automotive testing industry cluster, located ...
发展区域产业集群的重要性随着工业和大学更加相互联系的需要而增加。一个区域性汽车检测产业集群，位于…
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Pub Date : 2011-11-02DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2011.043461
A. Chandra, Chia-An Chao, J. Ryans
In this study, incubator affiliations (defined as an incubator’s propensity to network or affiliate with different types of external entities) of 84 business incubators in the USA and its relationship with incubator funding sources and nature of services provided were studied. Four types of affiliation-based relationships were identified: totally unaffiliated, affiliated with other incubator(s), affiliated with university, and affiliated with other incubator(s) and university. Results indicated that the incubator’s affiliation influenced its ability to access funding and provide financial assistance to incubatees, as well as the nature and level of tangible/administrative and value-added services provided to incubatee firms. Based on these findings, two distinct groups of incubators were identified, each with distinctly different strategic foci, service emphasis and funding approaches. Strategy and managerial implications for both categories of incubators are discussed.
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