Foreign workers and international partners as channels to international markets in core, intermediate and peripheral regions

Solheim, Marte C.W.

doi:10.1080/21681376.2016.1258324

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“…As for instance, innovation is considered and interactive process of learning among different actors (Lundvall, 2010) and recently the implications of networking (Ter Wal, Alexy, Block, & Sandner, 2016), open innovation (Chesbrough, 2006), social innovation (Phillips, Lee, Ghobadian, O'Regan, & James, 2015) and user innovation (Von Hippel, 2005) are ongoing discussion within innovation and regional innovation studies. Regional innovation studies consider engagement as a source of knowledge diversity for innovativeness, co-creation and collaboration for innovativeness (Solheim, 2016). RRI considers stakeholder engagement for co-creation and collaboration to ensure responsible outcomes for societal need based innovation (Guston, 2014;Vincent, 2014).…”

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Responsible research and innovation: a systematic review of the literature and its applications to regional studies

Thapa

Iakovleva

Foss

2019

European Planning Studies

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While innovation should be about socioeconomic transformation of society, concerns have been raised about its negative externalities including growing disparities within and between regions. Arguably, Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) offers a potential solution to address these concerns. However, in theory, its conceptualization and operationalization remain ambiguous. Further, in practice, this makes its application to regional development difficult. Accordingly, this study first conducts a systematic literature review of conceptual papers on RRI. It identifies themes and categorizes them into four domains: drivers, tools, outcomes and barriers. Second, these domains are applied to regional innovation studies. The paper contributes to an increased understanding of RRI and its applications to sustainable regional development as well as how RRI and regional innovation studies can benefit from each other. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Conflecting Interestmentioning

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Responsible research and innovation: a systematic review of the literature and its applications to regional studies

Thapa

Iakovleva

Foss

2019

European Planning Studies

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“…Understanding the nexus between the global and global city-regional space contributes to a better understanding of the spatial transformations induced by global actors in the regions (cf. Solheim, 2016).…”

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Transnational professionals’ socio-spatial venturing out to the Tokyo global city-region

Yamamura

2019

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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Global-city research has focused primarily on considering transnational corporations and transnational professionals (TNPs) in economic terms, neglecting the role of TNPs' specific socio-spatial practices in constituting the transnational space. Although researchers on global city-regions (GCRs) have pointed to the relevance of the larger regions for global cities, little is known about the TNPs moving into such regions, and their socio-spatial patterns within them. On the basis of novel empirical results derived from 45 in-depth interviews with TNPs, this paper sheds a light on patterns of socio-spatial practices in Tokyo, Japana well-established, yet unexplored, global cityand its larger GCR. Results show two distinct patterns within the TNPs, that is, the gaijin ghetto and the Pro-Tokyoite patterns. The gaijin ghetto is characterized by a Western-dominated culture and is spatially concentrated within a very small area in the core of Tokyo, with limited extra-urban spots in the GCR. The Pro-Tokyoite pattern is spatially more varied and spread within the larger metropolitan area, reaching into the wider GCR, with social practices and interactions closer to the local peer group. This paper discusses how these socio-spatial patterns are embedded in the global, regional and local spatial settings and it demonstrates that TNPs are in fact venturing out of the city centre into the broader GCR.

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“…In a recent study, I used linked employer-employee data merged with the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) (made available by Statistics Norway), to determine whether there was a positive association between launching goods and services in international markets and foreign workers and collaboration with international partners. The objective was to see whether this applies similarly for firms in peripheral, intermediate, and core regions (Solheim, 2016).…”

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“…The results published in Regional Studies, Regional Science (Solheim, 2016), demonstrate that firms in peripheral regions take part in global processes and that this is being facilitated through collaboration with international partners. Whilst firms in core regions tend to collaborate with a more diverse range of international partners, the firms in peripheral regions seem to collaborate with international partners that are closer to them geographically, perhaps because they perceive these partners also to be cognitively proximate.…”

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“…The paper "Foreign workers and international partners as channels to international markets in core, intermediate and peripheral regions" (Solheim, 2016) investigates the role of foreign workers in association to firms launching goods and/or services on international markets. Following the logic of shared platform and proximity mentioned above, foreign workers inherit skills that could prove beneficial to launch goods and services in the international markets, given that foreign workers often remain in contact with their native networks, and thus can increase the trust among these relations.…”

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Fostering Innovation Through Workplace Diversity

Solheim¹

2018

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Marte C W Solheim investigates how diversity within the workplace effects the capacity for firms to innovate and the relationship between firm location and the risk of being locked into a "wolfpack" mindset. Highlights:This piece discusses how different forms of diversity affect different types of innovation. It highlights how foreign workers can connect firms to international partners and international markets. It shows how a diverse workforce, in terms of differences in educational or life experience can lead to patenting, whilst a more similar workforce fosters process or product innovation. It is draws on findings from my PhD thesis, "Innovation, Space, and Diversity".

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Foreign workers and international partners as channels to international markets in core, intermediate and peripheral regions

Cited by 12 publications

References 45 publications

Responsible research and innovation: a systematic review of the literature and its applications to regional studies

Responsible research and innovation: a systematic review of the literature and its applications to regional studies

Transnational professionals’ socio-spatial venturing out to the Tokyo global city-region

Fostering Innovation Through Workplace Diversity

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