Knowledge management in regional innovation networks: The case of Lahti, Finland

Harmaakorpi, Vesa; Melkas, Helinä

doi:10.1080/09654310500139277

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“…It is the process of restructuring existing knowledge that enables it to be exploited. Despite considerable criticism of the model, which argues that it is too individualistic and not empirically sound (see e.g., Gourlay, 2006;Harmaakorpi & Melkas, 2005), its usefulness is reflected in its application across a range of disciplines and contexts including accounting (Cai, 2014), cross-cultural studies (Easa & Fincham, 2012), librarianship (C. S. Lee & Kelkar, 2013), organizational learning (Hong, 2012), and engineering (Sarirete & Chikh, 2010). It has been chosen for this study as its structural focus fits with the KVC approach, while supporting the ideas of the need to move ideas from one place to another to create knowledge, which can then be captured (see also Cook & Brown, 1999).…”

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Enabling Event Volunteer Legacies: A Knowledge Management Perspective

2017

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Human capital development delivered through the volunteers is espoused as one legacy outcome of hosting mega-sporting events such as the Olympic and Paralympic Games. However, to date the reality of such a legacy remains largely undemonstrated. In this article, Nonaka and Tacheuchi's SECI model and Lee and Yang's knowledge value chain (KVC) are integrated to identify insights to support the development of a potential human capital legacy from volunteers in future mega-sport events through focusing on knowledge management. A case study of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games demonstrates gaps in the knowledge management systems in place, both in terms of the identification of knowledge and the processes for capture and reuse. It is argued that, unless those involved in hosting the events reconsider their approach to human capital legacy development, using the creation and management of knowledge as a core element, it is unlikely that long-term human capital legacy outcomes will be achieved for host communities.

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Enabling Event Volunteer Legacies: A Knowledge Management Perspective

2017

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“…The concept has its roots in the innovation system approach, but also involves the recognition of the microeconomic and policy-related determinants of innovative capability that exist within industrial clusters (Furman et al 2002). Thus, the concept of regional innovation environment leans on several other theoretical frameworks besides the innovation systems literature and is constructed from a wider array of regional actors as well as other components such as cooperation, networking, local atmosphere, and interactive learning (Harmaakorpi & Melkas 2005;Tura & Harmaakorpi 2005).…”

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Spatial scaling of regional strategic programmes in Finland: A qualitative study of clusters and innovation systems

Makkonen¹,

Inkinen²

2014

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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Innovation systems and clusters are perhaps the most widely used concepts found in recent literature in economic geography focusing on innovative industrial production and locational agglomeration. Both concepts have been universally embraced from the early 1990s onwards. However, recent literature has expressed criticism of their use as tools for policy-making. We studied innovation and cluster rhetoric in a geographical context by using empirical evidence obtained from the policy documents of the Finnish regional councils. We used a theoretical conception of spatial scaling as a geographical framework. Spatial scales proved to be a black box for regional strategies in Finland. Regional strategic programmes use a similar language that ignores the spatial variations of their locations. Clusters and regional innovation systems should be considered as parts of vertical and horizontal interlinkages within the economy and not as individual islands of organizational proximities in isolated contexts. It is argued here that an imprecise understanding of the innovation systems and cluster approaches, both conceptually and practically, has led to some ambiguity, resulting in the use of these terms as buzzwords. This misuse hampers the ability of administrations to execute regional development in their respective areas.

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“…Therefore, we believe that knowledge management capabilities, including the ability to explicate tacit knowledge, collect and share explicit knowledge resources and help urban actors to increase their tacit knowledge (Harmaakorpi, 2006;Harmaakorpi & Melkas, 2005), are essential for accumulating. For knowledge to be shared, it must first be made conscious and articulated through an externalization (Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995).…”

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Resource orchestration as a source of competitive advantage for cities

Berseck

Knyphausen‐Aufseß

2018

Managementforschung

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-DeutschInmitten des aktuellen Urbanisierungstrends bietet diese Dissertation eine Antwort auf den Mere resources are frequently insufficient to generate competitiveness in our increasingly demanding world; urban administrators, policymakers and other practitioners concerned with the management of their place need capabilities to use resources efficiently while adapting to their changing environments. Therefore, I argue for the value of extending the resource-based theory -especially, its dynamic refinement, the theory of resource orchestration -to answer the question how places can achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. I develop a fourstep process framework of strategically managing resources and developing capabilities that includes (a) structuring their resource portfolio, (b) bundling resources to capabilities, (c) leveraging capability configurations and (d) continuously synchronizing each activity.I try to give this model its specific urban shape by zooming into the city and empirically applying it to the internationally growing urban governance tool of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs). The first empirical study emphasizes one particularly important, placespecific resource, namely social capital, and examines the unique relationships between social capital and resource bundling based on archival, interview and direct observation data of 12BIDs in New York City. The findings suggest that each component of the resource bundling process mediates between social capital and the BID's capability to function as community development entity. Contents IVThe second empirical study focusses on capability leveraging and elaborates this resource orchestration step in the context of 15 BID-government relationships in the City of Hamburg.This chapter advances qualitative research to disentangle the actual processes of strategy development, coordination and implementation between public and private actors. It identifies different leveraging approaches and collaborative outcomes depending on the social capital configurations of the BID-government relationships. By focusing on the partnerships' networks of relationships, inherent interests and capabilities that enable (or inhibit) public and private actors to work together, the study makes an important contribution to the literature, theorizing the entire process of how public-private collaborations are strategically managed.Combined, this dissertation informs theory and practice on the strategic management of cities and BIDs. The focus shifts from viewing them as black box, through which certain inputs flow to become outputs, towards the development of capabilities for policymakers, administrators and practitioners that allow them to utilize resources efficiently and establish structures to work collaboratively. Hereby, I show and explain how places can affect their development trajectories through conscious managerial actions taken to increase their performance.

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Knowledge management in regional innovation networks: The case of Lahti, Finland

Cited by 67 publications

References 23 publications

Enabling Event Volunteer Legacies: A Knowledge Management Perspective

Enabling Event Volunteer Legacies: A Knowledge Management Perspective

Spatial scaling of regional strategic programmes in Finland: A qualitative study of clusters and innovation systems

Resource orchestration as a source of competitive advantage for cities

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