Learning from the Bangalore Experience: The Role of Universities in an Emerging Regional Innovation System

Cristina Chaminade, Vang-Lauridsen, Jan and Lars Coenen ()

No 2007-04, CIRCLE Electronic Working Paper Series from CIRCLE (Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy), Lund University

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the role of universities and public research organizations initiating and sustaining the development of regional innovation systems in developing countries, focusing the discussion on the Bangalore software cluster. Innovation systems research has paid significant attention to the importance of universities and other publicly financed research institutions as engines of growth and innovative performance in regions. With noble exceptions these papers tend to ignore the specific context in which this interaction between the university and the industry takes place, that is, the specific competences and capabilities of the universities and the firms specific needs, particularly in developing countries. This papers aims at reducing this gap by making an empirically-based analysis of the role that universities can play in initiating, sustaining and deepening Bangalores regional innovation system for the IT-service and software industry embedding the discussion on the specificities of the strategies of the firms and the universities located in the cluster.

JEL-codes: O31 O32 O33 O34 O38 N5 O47 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2007
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