Regional port authorities: leading players in innovation networks?

Stephen Cahoon, Hilary Pateman and Shu-Ling Chen

Journal of Transport Geography, 2013, vol. 27, issue C, 66-75

Abstract: For a regional port necessarily involved in global supply chains, the development of its hinterland region is critical to its long term sustainability. Such development can be fostered by a regional innovation system (RIS), although the risks of path dependency and lock-in may lead to a region decaying. A process for contributing to a RIS is the Regional Development Platform Model (RDPM), the focus of this paper. As a new approach to regional development, the RDPM is utilised and adapted to identify opportunities for potential development in a region. In this paper, the RDPM is linked to the role of a port authority and its potential to drive regional growth centred on its innovation network. Port authorities, by assuming the role of network leader, can shape the regional innovation network and create new development trajectories through their links to various levels of government and the wide range of stakeholders that utilise the port facilities. The inherent tensions in this role and the competing possibilities of path creation and path dependence to create value for a wide network of stakeholders are challenging.

Keywords: Path dependency; Regional innovation system; Port strategy; Regional development platform method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2012.06.015

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