Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Functional Regions

Charlie Karlsson (), Börje Johansson and Roger Stough
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Roger Stough: George Mason University

No 144, Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation from Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of entrepreneurship and innovations for economic development in functional regions and in doing that highlighting the different conditions offered for entrepreneurship and innovations in functional regions of various sizes. In conclusion, the conditions for entrepreneurship and innovations vary substantially between functional regions, since the necessary knowledge resources tend to be local and to cluster in certain regions and not others. Functional regions with a high capacity to generate new ideas, create knowledge, organizational learning and innovations are characterized as learning regions. Large functional regions offer a large market potential and a superior accessibility to knowledge and knowledge resources and they will further develop their creative capabilities due to an accumulation of innovative and entrepreneurial knowledge.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Innovations; Regional development; R&D; Knowledge Sources; Knowledge Flows; Knowledge Creation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 M13 R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2008-09-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-ent, nep-geo, nep-hrm, nep-ino and nep-knm
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