Modelling life-science clusters in terms of resources and capabilities

Kasabov, Edward

doi:10.1080/09654313.2016.1206849

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 86 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In this literature, industry-university relations, adequate national or international IPR, and venture capital (enabled through expert uses of these IPR), have been identified as pre-existing or co-evolving conditions of North American and European high-tech clusters [12,[117][118][119][120][121][122][123]. These scholars have taught us that the search for profitable and efficient IP management that is both individual and collective at the local level, is an important vector of high-tech cluster dynamics within a changing national regulatory framework [12,[124][125][126][127]. In the case of information technology clusters, results also insist on the causal relationship between the extent to and the way in which firms are locally concentrated (importance of different industries) and the cohesive nature of IP management in the inventor network, which can be a result of a very incremental and long-lasting clustering process [13].…”

Section: Sme Knowledge Mobility and Appropriability Within Regional Cluster Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rebuilding a Cluster While Protecting Knowledge within Low-Medium-Tech Supplier SMEs: A Spanish and French Comparison

Gadille

Bono

2021

Sustainability

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Most of SMEs are engaged in open innovation practices, but they do not benefit from open innovation or from patenting in the same way as larger firms do. At the same time SMEs, as territorialized suppliers, play a crucial role within evolving regional specialization. In this context the purpose of our study is to examine how low and medium technology supplier SMEs learn and organize themselves at a territorial level to address the challenge of IP protection in an open innovation paradigm. We used a qualitative method with a longitudinal multi-case study involving 27 companies with a historical lance to compare the territorial dynamics of knowledge protection within clustered supplier SMEs in two European regions. The results show they protect their knowledge by learning how to design, in a direct relationship with clients, customized complex technological products to develop a new organizational matrix of multidisciplinary knowledge that reveals itself difficult to imitate within the clusters. They also cope with other supplier firms across sectors even if they show societal path dependencies in the way to build cooperation. This dynamic has given birth to changing structural relationships among regionally clustered SMEs and between them and large firms.

show abstract