Innovation Networks for Regional Development. Overview and Contributions

Ben Vermeulen

A chapter in Innovation Networks for Regional Development, 2017, pp 1-12 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter provides a concise conceptual overview of the literature on the relationship of innovation network dynamics and regional economic development and discusses the contributions contained in this book. The overview starts with a treatise of how the knowledge-based theory of the firm argues that, for knowledge exchange and recombination, collaborative governance forms are (dynamically) more efficient than integration or market transactions. However, while exchange of tacit knowledge best takes places in geographical proximity, knowledge with an innovative potential may well be found only outside the region. As such, innovation networks engaged in knowledge creation generally evolve over time and space in conjunction with the regions involved. This chapter provides a discussion of the relationship of network dynamics and the regional innovation system and the various policy interventions possible to ameliorate innovativeness and regional competitiveness. This chapter ends with an explanation of how agent-based computer models are used to study network dynamics and regional development.

Keywords: Innovation System; Technological Knowledge; Innovation Network; Regional Economic Development; Regional Innovation System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-43940-2_1

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