Do you have feet in your shoes? Innovation and resilience in a footwear industrial district in Brazil

Luiz Fernando Câmara Viana (luiz.viana@ifb.edu.br), Valmir Emil Valmir Emil (emil.hoffmann67@gmail.com), Hugo Pinto and Isabel Diez-Vial (diezvial@ccee.ucm.es)
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Luiz Fernando Câmara Viana: Instituto Federal de Brasilia (IFB), Campus Gama
Valmir Emil Valmir Emil: Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina
Isabel Diez-Vial: Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (UNIR)

INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH, 2024, issue 60, 55-73

Abstract: This study examines innovation as a shock reaction in the process of regional economic resilience, focusing on a footwear industrial district in southern Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results show that innovation, a mechanism of adaptability, emerged in the industrial district not only to support economic recovery, but also to mitigate the adverse effects. Firms implemented novel marketing and sales processes, and some also had to change their information and communication systems or organisational structure to support e-commerce. As such, this study highlights the influence of adaptability on ecmic resistance.

Keywords: Regional resilience; innovation; adaptability; shocks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B52 O30 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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