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Innovation and Knowledge Links in Metropolitan Regions: The Case of Vienna

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  • Franz Tödtling

    (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

  • Michaela Trippl

    (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

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Metropolitan regions are often key centers of research, education and business services, and tend to have excellent preconditions for innovation and knowledge based sectors. They often have a highly qualified workforce and provide access to specialized resources and inputs for innovation. Consequently these centers are regarded to be important nodes in the knowledge-based economy. However, there is also evidence showing that metropolitan regions may suffer from innovation problems such as missing knowledge linkages between science and business, or a lack of innovation culture. The metropolitan region of Vienna is an interesting case of in this context since its regional innovation system (RIS) is well endowed with knowledge organizations such as universities, specialized schools and research institutes in many fields. It is also a central location for business services, and well connected via a good transport and telecommunication infrastructure within Europe and beyond. Still, Vienna seems to have faced innovation problems in the past such as missing venture capital and weak relations between science and business. The aim of this chapter is to examine whether these past deficiencies of Vienna’s RIS are still characteristic features also of the new knowledge intensive industries such as ICT and biotech that have grown in the last few years in the region.

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  • Franz Tödtling & Michaela Trippl, 2013. "Innovation and Knowledge Links in Metropolitan Regions: The Case of Vienna," Advances in Spatial Science, in: Johan Klaesson & Börje Johansson & Charlie Karlsson (ed.), Metropolitan Regions, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 451-472, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-642-32141-2_19
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32141-2_19
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    1. Jiří Blažek & Pavla Žížalová, 2010. "The Biotechnology Industry in the Prague Metropolitan Region: A Cluster within a Fragmented Innovation System?," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 28(5), pages 887-904, October.
    2. Tödtling, Franz & Sinozic, Tanja & Auer, Alexander, 2016. "Knowledge bases, multi-scale interaction and transformation of the Vienna medical cluster," SRE-Discussion Papers 2016/03, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.
    3. Markus Grillitsch & Josephine Rekers & Franz Tödtling, 2019. "When drivers of clusters shift scale from local towards global: What remains for regional innovation policy?," PEGIS geo-disc-2019_03, Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience, Department of Socioeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business.
    4. Franz Tödtling & Roland Schneider & Markus Grillitsch & Christoph Höglinger, 2011. "Constructing Regional Advantage in the Austrian ICT Sector—Towards Fine-Tuned Innovation Policies?," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 2(4), pages 533-549, December.
    5. A. S. Mikhaylov & A. A. Mikhaylova & D. V. Hvaley, 2024. "Geography of Research Networks in the South of Russia," Regional Research of Russia, Springer, vol. 14(3), pages 398-409, September.

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