Economic Crisis, Turbulence and the Resilience of Innovation: Insights from the Atlantic Maritime Cluster

Hugo Pinto, Elvira Uyarra, Mercedes Bleda, Carla Nogueira and Helena Almeida
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Elvira Uyarra: Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), Alliance Manchester Business School
Carla Nogueira: University of Algarve
Helena Almeida: University of Algarve

Chapter Chapter 4 in Resilience and Regional Dynamics, 2018, pp 61-80 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Innovation is related to economic cycles. Often seen as a procyclical phenomenon, many innovation actors try and succeed in maintaining (and even increasing) their innovation efforts to gain competitive advantage during the crises. In this chapter, departing from the recent developments in regional studies, which understand resilience as an evolutionary capacity of socio-economic systems, we suggest the notion of ‘resilience of innovation’ as the capacity of an innovation process to maintain its function at different levels of operation. Drawing upon the results from a survey on knowledge provision and needs of maritime cluster innovative actors in the European Atlantic Area, our analysis focuses on the evolution of innovation and knowledge services. We provide parametric and non-parametric evidence of the differences in the provision and utilisation of these services and provide econometric evidence of the main factors that influence the resilience of innovation at the organizational level.

Keywords: Atlantic area; Innovation; Knowledge services; Maritime cluster; Resilience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95135-5_4

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