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Author-Name: Artur Tavares Vilas Boas Ribeiro
Author-X-Name-First: Artur Tavares Vilas Boas
Author-X-Name-Last: Ribeiro
Author-Name: Eduardo De Senzi Zancul
Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo De Senzi
Author-X-Name-Last: Zancul
Author-Name: Justin Hugo Axel-Berg
Author-X-Name-First: Justin Hugo
Author-X-Name-Last: Axel-Berg
Author-Name: Guilherme Ary Plonski
Author-X-Name-First: Guilherme Ary
Author-X-Name-Last: Plonski
Title: Can universities play an active role in fostering entrepreneurship in emerging ecosystems? A case study of the University of São Paulo
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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 São 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.
Journal: Int. J. of Innovation and Regional Development
Pages: 1-22
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Keywords: entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship ecosystems; entrepreneurial universities; startups; venture creation; university; third mission; technology development; new business; economic development.
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Author-Name: Christian Garavaglia
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: Garavaglia
Title: Behind the emergence of clusters: spinoffs and social ties. The case of an Italian industrial district
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The traditional economic literature explains the process of geographic agglomeration of firms with regard to the existence of external economies or agglomeration economies. The purpose of this paper is to investigate an alternative view, following some more recent influential studies about spinoffs and the emergence of clusters (Boschma, 2015). We discuss how the joint processes of spinoffs, knowledge inheritance and social ties may shape the emergence of firms in a cluster without referring to the existence of external economies. This paper presents the case of the industrial swimwear district in Oleggio, Italy and provides evidence that the formation of spinoffs and social ties contributed to the emergence of the district.
Journal: Int. J. of Innovation and Regional Development
Pages: 23-43
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Keywords: cluster; industrial district; spinoff; social ties; knowledge inheritance; external economies; regional development; swimwear.
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Author-Name: Jens K. Perret
Author-X-Name-First: Jens K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Perret
Title: An alternative approach towards the knowledge production function on a regional level - applications for the USA and Russia
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A knowledge production function is used to account for the efficiency of an innovation systems; it provides a quantile regression estimation of the knowledge production function to account for a nonlinear relationship (efficiency) between knowledge inputs and knowledge output. Regional data for researchers, expenditures on R%D and patent grants for the USA and the Russian Federation is used in two different designs. In both countries, groups of regions exist with smaller sized research systems that report significantly different dynamics and thus knowledge production functions than regions with larger sized research systems. In the USA, regions with small research systems report decreasing returns to knowledge inputs while region with large research systems report increasing returns to knowledge inputs thus efficiency is achieved in fostering larger regional innovation systems. In the Russian Federation, the effect is exactly the opposite; it is the smaller regional innovation systems that are most productive.
Journal: Int. J. of Innovation and Regional Development
Pages: 44-74
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Keywords: Russian Federation; innovation system; knowledge production function; KPF; knowledge generation; quantile regression; regional economics; USA; Russia; panel data; econometrics; efficiency of knowledge production; knowledge economy; innovation; comparison of regional development.
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Author-Name: Fadil Sahiti
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Author-X-Name-Last: Sahiti
Title: Do social conditions matter for emergence of innovative firms? The case of Kosovo
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The theory of innovative enterprise emphasises the importance of social conditions in the capabilities of firms to innovate. Firms operate in a particular social context characterised by national economic institutions that influence the social conditions of innovative activities. Governance institutions influence strategic control, employment institutions influence organisational integration, and investment institutions influence financial commitment. This paper examines whether these social factors matter for the emergence of innovative firms in the context of low-income economies, with evidence from Kosovo firms. The findings suggest that Kosovo's economy provides little incentives for firms to innovate. While the country has established an institutional framework which to a great extent is comparable to developed countries, the major challenge remains its enforcement. The number of business entities endowed with innovative capabilities is low, and this is an outcome of macro as well as micro social context.
Journal: Int. J. of Innovation and Regional Development
Pages: 75-101
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Keywords: innovation; social conditions; strategic control; organisational integration; investment capabilities.
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Author-Name: Malin Lindberg
Author-X-Name-First: Malin
Author-X-Name-Last: Lindberg
Title: Relating inclusiveness and innovativeness in inclusive innovation
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The increasing interest in innovative solutions to societal challenges in policy and research has opened up the innovation area for a wider range of participants and beneficiaries than previously acknowledged, which in this article is studied in terms of inclusive innovation. In order to strengthen the conceptual connection between the dawning field of inclusive innovation studies and more established fields within innovation studies, the study scrutinises how innovativeness relates to inclusiveness and vice versa in the light of previous knowledge. The conceptual outline is applied in a comparative case study of two regional innovation processes in Sweden, that share the ambition to tackle societal challenges by cross-boundary interaction, guided by values of equality and sustainability, at the same time as differing in scope and beneficiaries, due to their industrial and societal orientations. The combined theoretical and practical insights help delineate six distinct links between innovativeness and inclusiveness in inclusive innovation.
Journal: Int. J. of Innovation and Regional Development
Pages: 103-119
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Keywords: equality; inclusive innovation; regional development; social innovation; societal challenges.
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Author-Name: Tuomo Kinnunen
Author-X-Name-First: Tuomo
Author-X-Name-Last: Kinnunen
Author-Name: Satu Rinkinen
Author-X-Name-First: Satu
Author-X-Name-Last: Rinkinen
Author-Name: Jukka Majava
Author-X-Name-First: Jukka
Author-X-Name-Last: Majava
Author-Name: Jay Gillette
Author-X-Name-First: Jay
Author-X-Name-Last: Gillette
Title: Innovative regional development through triple helix collaboration: a comparative case study of strategic structures and implementation
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Intense global competition forces regions to seek new ways to boost innovativeness and the success of local enterprises. This paper focuses on triple helix collaboration to support regional innovation-led development and economy. Various options exist for structuring and implementing triple helix collaboration. However, current empirical knowledge is inadequate for stakeholders interested and involved in regional strategy creation and implementation. This study analyses the strategic structures and implementation of triple helix collaboration in two regional cases: Brainport (Netherlands) and Oulu innovation alliance (OIA, Finland). Case Brainport introduces a holistic approach and high profile role in regional development, whereas case OIA demonstrates the knowledge institutes' role in regional development in five spearhead areas. The cases illustrate two empirical ways to utilise triple helix mandate and strategic structures in regional development and strategy processes. The case comparison demonstrates diverse options for organising triple helix collaboration.
Journal: Int. J. of Innovation and Regional Development
Pages: 120-135
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Keywords: regional development; regional innovation; triple helix; collaboration; innovation; empirical case studies.
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Author-Name: Ho-Don Yan
Author-X-Name-First: Ho-Don
Author-X-Name-Last: Yan
Author-Name: Chi-Yin Wu
Author-X-Name-First: Chi-Yin
Author-X-Name-Last: Wu
Author-Name: Ruey-Fa Lin
Author-X-Name-First: Ruey-Fa
Author-X-Name-Last: Lin
Title: Social entrepreneurship and charismatic leadership: Master Cheng Yen and Tzu Chi Foundation
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Successful social enterprises are usually accompanied with charismatic leadership, which is instrumental to stimulate followers to help accomplish social missions. Based on three key behavioural components of charismatic leadership, namely envisioning, empathy, and empowerment, we propose an analytical framework to demonstrate how a faith-based organisation, Tzu Chi Foundation under the leadership of Master Cheng Yen, develops effective motivational strategies to help mobilise an enormous number of followers to fulfil the goals of social missions. In order to capture the interaction between leaders and followers and its performance, we use qualitative study method by focusing on important details. Due to the inaccessible interview with Master Cheng Yen, data are adopted from articles, reports, and researches of Tzu Chi Foundation and its followers. Notwithstanding, we take stock of an earned-income social enterprise, DA.AI Technology, which is created by some successful entrepreneurs following Master Cheng Yen, as a case to provide a way to avoid the tensions of mission conflicts. We finalise to discuss that even Tzu Chi Foundation could not escape from the trepidation of succession issue and group thinking as over-relying upon charismatic leadership might incur.
Journal: Int. J. of Innovation and Regional Development
Pages: 136-158
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Keywords: social entrepreneurship; charismatic leadership; social enterprise; Tzu Chi Foundation; empathy; empowerment; innovation.
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Author-Name: José O. Maldifassi
Author-X-Name-First: José O.
Author-X-Name-Last: Maldifassi
Author-Name: Ricardo A. Stambuk M.
Author-X-Name-First: Ricardo A. Stambuk
Author-X-Name-Last: M.
Title: Characterisation and assessment of the technological innovation network of the Valparaíso Region in Chile
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The Valparaíso Region has a diversified economic base, however, nationwide, its technological capability ranks only in the average range. No specific information about the structure of its innovation system exists; therefore, the objectives of this study were the identification of the firms and organisations with innovative capabilities in the region, the mapping of the technological innovation network, and its analysis. By means of a survey completed by firms' managers, a list of their innovation-based relationships was obtained, allowing the characterisation of the existing innovation network. What emerged is a network with two local universities and a Chilean Government agency as the main orchestrators of the innovative effort. Using factor analysis it was found that regionally innovation is fostered by the institutional and industrial environment, complemented by customers' needs and local universities. As the region is next to the country's capital city, this closeness diminishes the innovative capabilities of regional firms.
Journal: Int. J. of Innovation and Regional Development
Pages: 159-178
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Keywords: regional innovation system; innovation network; social network analysis; CORFO; Valparaíso Region; Chile.
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Author-Name: Manuel Ahedo
Author-X-Name-First: Manuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Ahedo
Title: The construction of unbalanced innovation policies in Catalonia (Spain)
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The article analyses the evolution of innovation policies in Catalonia between the 1980s and 2016-2017. From a broad perspective, innovation policies include from research, technology and knowledge transfer policies, to industrial and competitiveness policies. The analysis examines at the micro level the main actors in the innovation policy, and at the macro level the institutional order related to government, business system, industrial structure and innovation-related public and private institutions. The analysis shows: the micro field has been dominated by few key actors, such as academic economists, large companies and university research groups; at the macro institutional order, regional government has displayed a quite centralised decision-making in contrast to a weak industrial civil society and low innovation-related public-private collaboration. The result has been a rather unbalanced policy evolution that has favoured science and research in detriment of innovation and industry, especially business and production related technological innovation.
Journal: Int. J. of Innovation and Regional Development
Pages: 179-195
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Keywords: small and medium enterprises; SMEs; government; public-private cooperation; research; specialisation; industrial policies; institutional order; ideas; interests; power; innovation policies; regional development; Spain; Catalonia.
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