Innovation Governance Nexuses: Mapping Local Governments' University-Industry Relations and Specialization in High Technology in Sweden

Stefan Szücs and Olof Zaring

European Planning Studies, 2014, vol. 22, issue 9, 1769-1782

Abstract: In this paper, we take as a point of departure an assumption that innovation governance matters as a local and regional policy instrument, and consequently we investigate whether local policy can be linked to local industry. To do this, we use Swedish survey data on policy and high-tech agglomeration at the level of municipalities and present evidence on innovation governance nexuses, i.e. locations with greater industrial specialization paired with stronger formalization of innovation governance. Theoretically, this paper follows the literature on regional advantage, but a novel approach is used in which innovation governance literature is linked to that advantage. The findings indicate that these types of policy instruments are useful by creating networks that channel and direct resource and knowledge flows, particularly at locations with higher education institutions.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2013.801401

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