Smart Specialisation—Norwegian Adoptions

The learning region tradition: a cultural reappraisal

“…Others accept making categories but claim that even the European scene offers a wider variety of cases (Amable, 2003). Recently a line of scholars has suggested that VoC schemes, to make sense, should be made for regions and not only for nations (Ebner, 2016;Knudsen et al, 2019;Schröder and Voelzkow, 2016).…”

“…Sociologically, the structure favouring this kind of network economies seem to be found in a historical context of rurally-based egalitarian and free smallholders otherwise clinging to vertical family patterns of the stem family type (Todd, 1990). This type of social configuration has recently been labelled hierarchic egalitarianism (Knudsen, 2018;Knudsen et al, 2019). In VoC terms, it could be seen as a specific variety of the CME economy, by Strand and Leydesdorff (2013) judged to have specific capacities for absorbing knowledge from different knowledge bases in the present stage of the globalised economy.…”

“…However, the specific reasons why some of them take the propensities of their hierarchic egalitarianism to spur a specific kind of endogenous economic growth, which seems to activate some of those mechanisms mentioned by Polanyi (1983) as compensating "the range of creative powers" found in other innovative contexts, need further analysis. This is the more urgent as the forms of innovation taking place in these locations seem to be predominantly building on their local capacities and priorities more than importing models of innovation from without; adapting their inherited local structures to modernity without destroying the existing social and built environment, thus, offering a case of what I elsewhere have labelled creative continuity (Knudsen, 2018;Knudsen et al, 2019), rather than entering the rugged terrain of Schumpeterian creative destruction. As such, the notion of creative continuity seems to offer a heading for dealing with innovation and renewal that comply with present wishes for economic growth processes to be responsible and sustainable, locally as globally.…”

Triple, Quadruple and N-Tuple Helices: The RIS3 and EDP of a Higher-Order Policy Model

“…The nation-states of Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Italy, Spain and Greece, all providing evidence of the Triple Helix Model as the scientific basis of Europe's latest Research and Innovation Strategy (European Commission 2014a;2014b). That Research and Innovation Strategy which is known as Smart Specialisation and the Joanneum Research and Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (2012), along with Mroczkowski et al (2017), Virkkala (2017), Vogiatzis and Makios (2017), Giusti et al (2019) and Knudsen (2020), all indicate is found in the regions of West phalia (Germany), Baden-Württember (Austria), East Netherlands (The Netherlands), Oulun (Finland) Lombardy (Italy), Basque (Spain) and Corallia (Greece).…”