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Regional Innovation Systems: The Integration of Local 'Sticky' and Global 'Ubiquitous' Knowledge

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 Asheim, Bjorn T
Isaksen, Arne
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The paper examines how firms in three regional clusters in Norway dominated by shipbuilding, mechanical engineering and electronics industry, respectively exploit both place-specific local resources as well as external, world-class knowledge to strengthen their competitiveness. From these case-studies we make four points: (1) ideal-typical regional innovation systems, i.e., regional clusters "surrounded" by supporting local organisations, is rather uncommon in Norway; (2) external contacts, outside of the local industrial milieu, are crucial in innovation processes also in many SMEs; (3) innovation processes may nevertheless be regarded as regional phenomena in regional clusters, as regional resources and collaborative networks often have decisive significance for firms' innovation activity; and (4) regional resources include in particular place-specific, contextual knowledge of both tacit and codified nature, that, in combination, is rather geographically immobile. Copyright 2002 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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Volume (Year): 27 (2002)
Issue (Month): 1 (January)
Pages: 77-86
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