Innovation in peripheral regions
Innovation in peripheral regions
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周边地区创新
DOI：
10.4337/9781784710774.00030
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发表时间：
2016
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James Karlsen
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作者：
A. Isaksen;James Karlsen
本章讨论了周边地区创新活动的典型特征，这些地区位于大城市的日常通勤距离之外。这些地区与活跃的核心地区相比，具有不同的地方条件，这使得位于周边地区的公司以某些方式进行创新。许多边缘地区的特点是组织薄弱的区域创新系统和粘合的社会资本。这些特征刺激了基于经验知识的渐进式创新，这是“做-用-互动”创新模式的典型特征。许多DUI创新，当地知识流动少，相关的知识和技术种类少，结合社会资本水平高等特点可能会导致边缘地区陷入路径延伸：公司和行业通过渐进式创新加强现有活动，而通过激进创新开发新活动则难以实现。特别是周边地区的企业，需要获得区域外的知识，以实现更激进的创新活动。对区域外知识来源的依赖还表明，外部投资和政策举措对周边区域的工业发展尤为重要。然而，周边地区的企业需要制定组织学习战略，以便能够在内部创新过程中利用来自远方的外部知识。
The chapter discusses typical features of innovation activity in peripheral regions; regions located outside daily commuting distance from large cities. Such regions exhibit different place-specific conditions to those found in dynamic core regions, which cause peripherally located firms to innovate in certain ways. Many peripheral regions are characterized by organizationally thin regional innovation systems and bonding social capital. These are features that stimulate incremental innovations based on experience-based knowledge, which is typical of the Doing-Using-Interacting (DUI) innovation mode. Characteristics such as many DUI innovations, little local knowledge flow, low related variety of knowledge and technology and high levels of bonding social capital may result in peripheral regions becoming trapped in path extension: firms and industries strengthen their existing activity through incremental innovation, while the development of new activities through radical innovations is difficult to achieve. Firms in peripheral regions, in particular, need to source extra-regional knowledge in order to achieve more radical innovation activity. Reliance on extra-regional knowledge sources also points to the fact that external investments and policy initiatives are especially important for industrial development in peripheral regions. Firms in peripheral regions, however, need to develop organizational learning strategies in order to be able to exploit external knowledge from distant sources in their internal innovation processes.