A Post-Mortem of Regional Innovation Policy Failure: Scotland's Intermediate Technology Initiative (ITI)

Brown, Ross; Gregson, Geoff; Mason, Colin

doi:10.1080/00343404.2014.985644

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“…Amezcua et al, 2013). They have primarily examined the success or failure of individual programs based on the impact they have had on client firms or the larger regional economy (Brown et al, 2015). This ignores the fact that most regions have multiple entrepreneurship programs run by a variety of actors including local governments, universities, economic development agencies, and third sector community groups.…”

Section: Governing Entrepreneurial Ecosystemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The devolution of economic development responsibilities to the Scottish Government has lead to a major role for public support for technology entrepreneurship in Edinburgh's economy (Keating, 2005, Brown et al, 2015. Scottish Enterprise, the main Scottish economic development organisation, distributed more than £250 million in aid and grants to entrepreneurial ventures in 2014-15, with a particular focus on growth-oriented technology ventures (Scottish Enterprise, 2015).…”

Section: Entrepreneurial Support In Edinburgh Scotlandmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Developing and governing entrepreneurial ecosystems: the structure of entrepreneurial support programs in Edinburgh, Scotland

Spigel

2016

IJIRD

112

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Researchers and policymakers are increasingly employing the concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems to understand the concentration of high growth ventures in certain regions. Ecosystems represent the economic, social, and policy environment surrounding the entrepreneurship process. Public and privately run entrepreneurship support organisations (ESOs) form a critical part of entrepreneurial ecosystems by providing training and resources to entrepreneurs and new ventures. However, the role of ESOs within ecosystems is poorly understood with little conceptual or empirical discussions about how they contribute to the development of successful entrepreneurial ecosystems. To address this gap this paper employs the concept of institutional thickness to identify the optimum structure of support programs within a region. The role of institutional thickness is explored through an investigation of entrepreneurship support programs aimed at technology entrepreneurs in Edinburgh, UK. 43 ESOs are identified and their actives and types of support they provide analysed. The paper argues that there is the need for a new approach to the role of ESOs within ecosystems that looks beyond a single program but instead embraces a more holistic perspective that sees how they work in conjunction to provide support for firms throughout the venture creation and growth process.

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Section: Governing Entrepreneurial Ecosystemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Entrepreneurial Support In Edinburgh Scotlandmentioning

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Developing and governing entrepreneurial ecosystems: the structure of entrepreneurial support programs in Edinburgh, Scotland

Spigel

2016

IJIRD

112

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“…Interviews revealed that strategic partners may act as buyers or suppliers of the product and services of the start-up firm, or as collaborators. This has a critical role in the knowledge filter, with numerous interviewees reporting that having access to such support provides significant insights concerning market readiness (Mason and Brown, 2013;Brown et al, 2016). However, relationships with strategic partners have not always been seamless, with, for example, some entrepreneurs pointing to challenges in accessing personnel within large firms.…”

Section: Analysis Of the Programmementioning

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New directions in regional innovation policy: a network model for generating entrepreneurship and economic development

2018

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Lifting the economic performance of lagging regions continues to puzzle economic development practitioners and analysts. As a means of contributing some solutions to this puzzle, this paper examines a policy intervention that promotes regional development through a public-private sector initiative that utilises a network model to catalyse innovation-driven entrepreneurship. It focuses on a programme operated by the Alacrity Foundation in the region of Wales in the UK. The paper argues that the Foundation's model offers a novel means of attempting to facilitate regional development through a programme that intertwines elements relating to entrepreneurship, innovation and network policy and practice. It is novel in the sense that it seeks to de-risk the entrepreneurial and innovation process in a regional environment that is not traditionally strong in this respect. It is concluded that such programmes indicate that policy is beginning to embrace a number of ideas emerging from theoretical work on the drivers of regional innovation and growth.

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“…Miettinen (2002) suggests that researchers and policy makers have become unhealthily close, to the point that they have become dependent upon -indeed captured by -the other. This is despite concerns about the applicability of the NSI framework and deeper uncertainties about whether attempts to replicate features seen as driving success in one nation, region or sector will succeed elsewhere (Tait & Williams 1999;Brown et al 2016).…”

Section: Nsi and Sts Epistemic System -Tensions Between Research And mentioning

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Why science and innovation policy needs Science and Technology Studies?

Rb¹

2019

Handbook on Science and Public Policy

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In the 50 years since the first specialist research centres were established to study science and innovation policy and practice, differing orientations towards modernity and to external academic and non-academic audiences have encouraged an institutional divergence between two fields today often described as Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Innovation Studies (IS). This paper explores the reasons for and consequence of this divergence in this "research field of shared interest" (Martin et al. : 1182. IS, in its efforts to generate a robust evidence base from which they could draw generalisable policy lessons for promoting innovation, has adopted positivistic epistemologies and pursued large-scale and often quantitative research methods. STS, in its concern to critically interrogate the modernist project, has highlighted the diversity of voices and values of those involved in and affected by technoscientific change. This has favoured the qualitative (e.g. ethnographic and historical) methods of interpretivist research. This paper explores how these differing political commitments and concepts of intellectual mission have shaped two key frameworks proposed respectively by IS and STS for policy intervention. We examine what is arguably the core framework of IS scholars: the theory of National Systems of Innovation and the recent espousal by STS scholars of Responsible Research and Innovation. We identify opportunities for "cross-breeding" (Velasco 2015) and productive engagement, between these two traditions. In particular IS work on science and innovation policy could benefit from revisiting its roots in historical and contextual explanation of the factors shaping innovation processes (Delvenne & Thoreau 2012). Advances here have contributed to the recent renewal of the IS research agenda (Martin 2016). However no simple (re)convergence is likely between IS and STS given their contrasting epistemic stances.

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A Post-Mortem of Regional Innovation Policy Failure: Scotland's Intermediate Technology Initiative (ITI)

Cited by 38 publications

References 67 publications

Developing and governing entrepreneurial ecosystems: the structure of entrepreneurial support programs in Edinburgh, Scotland

Developing and governing entrepreneurial ecosystems: the structure of entrepreneurial support programs in Edinburgh, Scotland

New directions in regional innovation policy: a network model for generating entrepreneurship and economic development

Why science and innovation policy needs Science and Technology Studies?

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