Metropolitan Innovation Systems

Fischer, Manfred M.; Diez, Javier Revilla; Snickars, Folke

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-04630-2

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“…KIBS are private sector companies providing expert knowledge to companies, and are thus seen as a vital source of information, advice and specialized knowledge for other industries (Toivonen 2004). KIBS sectors have grown considerably in employment and output over the past two decades (Fischer et al 2001). According to Miles (2005) this growth can only mean that the use of knowledge-intensive services has expanded, which 'suggests that their significance for innovation across the economy will also have mushroomed' (Miles 2005, p. 450).…”

Section: The Increasing Importance Of Knowledgeintensive Servicesmentioning

confidence: 97%

New perspectives on knowledge‐intensive services and innovation

Aslesen

Isaksen

2007

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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Knowledge-intensive services are seen to have an increased importance for learning and innovation activity in a more knowledge-based economy. This paper compares the relevance of two complementary approaches as analytical tools in studying the exchange of knowledge-intensive services in innovation processes. The first approach focuses on the importance of expert knowledge from companies in the KIBS (knowledge-intensive business services) sector as input in innovation processes. The other approach focuses on the role of knowledge-intensive service activities (KISA) in innovation processes. The latter approach regards a wider set of players as potentially important knowledge-intensive service providers than just KIBS firms, it focuses on knowledge exchange beyond market relations, and it emphasizes the mix and match of internal and external knowledgeintensive services. This paper analyses the relevance of the two approaches by studying the use of knowledge-intensive services in two Norwegian industries dominated by different knowledge bases, that is, the aquaculture and the software industry, respectively. Empirical studies in the two industries demonstrate that the KISA approach certainly brings new elements into the investigation of the role of knowledge-intensive services in innovation activity. The approach focuses on how knowledge exchange occurs (in static or dynamic ways), and how it relates to firms' own innovation processes. However, innovation studies can also benefit from differentiating more between different types of firms, for example, firms in different phases of their life cycle.

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Section: The Increasing Importance Of Knowledgeintensive Servicesmentioning

confidence: 97%

New perspectives on knowledge‐intensive services and innovation

Aslesen

Isaksen

2007

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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“…This is in contrast with many innovation geography studies that shown innovation collaboration increase with spatial proximity. For example, Fischer, Revilla Diez and Snickars [2001] found that firms in three metropolitans, Vienna, Barcelona and Stockholm, often relied more on local linkages, less on international linkages for innovation collaboration, with regional (the EU) linkages in between. Our results cannot be solely explained by the geographical distribution of turnover.…”

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A comparative study of innovation behaviour in Singapore's KIBS and manufacturing firms

Wong¹,

2005

The Service Industries Journal

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“…Among the various services, knowledge-intensive services (KIS), meaning those activities requiring a substantial base of human and technological capital, are increasingly regarded as crucial to the development of regional innovation systems [3] and to boost regional economic growth in industrialized countries. Along these lines, KIS act as users, creators and propagators of innovations, both technological and non-technological, playing a major role in the creation and dissemination of organizational, institutional and social knowledge, and generating positive externalities through the transfer and creation of useful innovations for other economic agents [4] [5].…”

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Determinant Factors in the Internationalization of Knowledge-Intensive Services in a Peripheral Area

Muñoz-Guarasa¹,

Pajares²

2014

JSSM

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The objective of this study is to learn some of the determinant factors in the internationalization of knowledge-intensive services in a peripheral zone in accordance with the Eclectic Paradigm [1] [2]. The study will focus on Andalusia in Southern Spain. In the Andalusian region, there are no official data on internationalized companies. We have therefore conducted a survey of 256 service internationalized companies within the region. The results show that the ownership or specific advantages considered by the businesses themselves is the quality of service, training of employees, leadership and management ability, innovation, technology and the image that customers have of the company. Regarding the advantages of locating abroad that are believed to be the most important, those companies that engage in foreign investment highlight customer' follow-up and look for new customers. As well, they greatly value those factors related to the destination market: size, growth and access to the market as well as other markets.

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Metropolitan Innovation Systems

Cited by 63 publications

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New perspectives on knowledge‐intensive services and innovation

New perspectives on knowledge‐intensive services and innovation

A comparative study of innovation behaviour in Singapore's KIBS and manufacturing firms

Determinant Factors in the Internationalization of Knowledge-Intensive Services in a Peripheral Area

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