Network Structures in Regional Innovation Systems

Jérôme Stuck, Tom Broekel () and Javier Revilla Diez
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Jérôme Stuck: 1 Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography, Leibniz University, Hanover, Germany

No 2014-09, Working Papers on Innovation and Space from Philipps University Marburg, Department of Geography

Abstract: While interactive learning and inter-organisational relations are fundamental building blocks in RIS theory, the framework is rarely related to investigations of regional knowledge network structures, because in RIS literature relational structures and interaction networks are discussed in a rather fuzzy and generic manner with the ‘network term’ often being used rather metaphorically. This paper contributes to the literature by discussing theoretical arguments about interactions and knowledge exchange relations in the RIS literature from the perspective of social network analysis. More precise, it links network theoretical concepts and insights to the well-known classification of RIS types by Cooke (2004). We thereby exemplarily show how the RIS literature and the literature on regional knowledge networks can benefit from considering insights of the respective other.

Keywords: regional innovation system; network analysis; SNA; RIS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O18 O33 R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2014-12-17
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-geo, nep-ino, nep-knm, nep-net, nep-sbm and nep-ure
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