Knowledge Flows in High-Tech Industry Clusters: Dissemination Mechanisms and Innovation Regimes

Bo Carlsson ()
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Bo Carlsson: Case Western Reserve University

A chapter in Long Term Economic Development, 2013, pp 191-221 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper explores knowledge flows, i.e., creation and dissemination of knowledge, in three types of clusters in order to lay a conceptual foundation for analysis of knowledge-based industry clusters and for technology policy. Distinction is made between two different innovation regimes: discovery-driven innovation, represented by Silicon Valley and Cambridge, UK, in semiconductors, and by Boston/Cambridge, the San Francisco Bay Area and Medicon Valley in biotechnology; and design-driven innovation as represented by Boeing in Seattle, Bombardier in Montreal, Airbus in Toulouse, and Saab in Linköping in the aircraft industry. In each cluster, the role of universities and other creators of knowledge is examined. The nature of knowledge dissemination is also analyzed, distinguishing between market-mediated transfers of knowledge and non-market mediated and undirected transfers (“true” spillovers). The role of new start-ups versus incumbent firms in knowledge dissemination and cluster growth is also examined.

Keywords: Venture Capitalist; Absorptive Capacity; Knowledge Spillover; Knowledge Creation; Knowledge Flow (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-35125-9_9

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