How do firms acquire knowledge in different sectoral and regional contexts?

Franz Tödtling and Michaela Trippl ()

No 2015/25, Papers in Innovation Studies from Lund University, CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research

Abstract: This chapter provides a review and discussion of recent conceptual and empirical contributions on the nature and geography of firms’ knowledge acquisition activities. We offer a systematic conceptual view on the pattern on knowledge sourcing, bringing into focus and combining the notions of industrial knowledge bases (sectoral contexts), which are supposed to vary considerably with respect to the transferability of their key knowledge types and regional innovation systems (regional contexts), which are supposed to differ substantially in terms of the availability of knowledge sources. The empirical part of the chapter draws on cases from Austria, Finland, Germany and Sweden and provides an analysis and comparison of knowledge sourcing activities in analytical, synthetic and symbolic industrial sectors in metropolitan, specialised industrial and peripheral regional contexts.

Keywords: knowledge sourcing activities; industrial knowledge bases; regional innovation systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 O30 R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2015-07-27
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-geo, nep-ino, nep-knm, nep-sbm and nep-ure
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