Social and Spatial Structures of Innovation in the Irish Animation Industry

Egeraat, Chris Van; Ó’Riain, Seán; Kerr, Aphra

doi:10.1080/09654313.2012.755838

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“…Garmann Johnsen (2011) shows that in symbolic industries, knowledge is often exchanged in a dynamic interplay between formal project collaboration and informal social networking. Even though the regional level plays a vital role for collaboration in symbolic industries, networks are not limited to spatial proximity, but can span over long distances (Vang and Chaminade, 2007;van Egeraat et al, 2013) Among the interviewed media firms, personal relations play a central role for the acquisition of new knowledge. Even though personal relationships are often situated within the same regional or national context, important relations also span over national boundaries.…”

Section: Empirical Analysis -How Firms Gain Access To Global Knowledgmentioning

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Regional Innovation Systems and Global Flows of Knowledge

Martin

Aslesen

Grillitsch

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New Avenues for Regional Innovation Systems - Theoretical Advances, Empirical Cases and Policy Lessons

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The literature on regional innovation systems emphasizes the role of the region as locus for interactive learning and knowledge exchange, stressing the importance of (geographical) proximity for innovation (Asheim and Gertler 2005). Even though the importance of extra-regional knowledge is widely acknowledged (Trippl et al. 2015), there has been only little emphasis on the particular role and the nature of global knowledge flows. The aim of this chapter is to explore the differentiated nature of global knowledge flows in regional innovation systems. We provide an overview of the different ways firms can gain access to global knowledge sources. Identified knowledge sourcing channels include international R&D collaborations, foreign direct investments, personally embedded relationships, international mobility of skilled labour, virtual communities and online platforms, and the participation in temporary clusters such as fairs, exhibitions, and conferences (Maskell et al. 2006, Aslesen and Sardo 2016). Depending on regional innovation system preconditions, firms use and combine different knowledge sourcing channels to access global knowledge. Firms in organisationally thick and diversified regional innovation systems have a geographical advantage in accessing knowledge globally, but even firms in peripheral areas can exchange knowledge worldwide, due to improved means of transport and communication at distance. Furthermore, not only multinational companies that are dominated by analytical or synthetic knowledge bases, but even small and medium sized enterprises in symbolic industries are often deeply involved in global knowledge sourcing activities. We illustrate our arguments with interview data collected among New Media firms in southern Sweden and in the Oslo Region in Norway.

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confidence: 99%

Regional Innovation Systems and Global Flows of Knowledge

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Aslesen

Grillitsch

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“…Industrial development might be different in contexts where synthetic (Moodysson et al . ) or symbolic knowledge bases dominate (Van Egeraat et al ., ). Spatial planning driven platforms based on foreign direct investment are not confined to industries characterised by analytical knowledge based industries.…”

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Spatial Concentration in the Irish Pharmaceutical Industry: The Role of Spatial Planning and Agglomeration Economies

Egeraat

Curran

2013

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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This paper explores the idea that spatial planning-triggered satellite industrial platform-type concentrations may, over time, automatically gain the capacity to generate substantial agglomeration economies and ultimately transform into entities capable of stimulating self-perpetuating growth. Applying the lexicon of agglomeration theory, the idea is explored in the context of the spatial dynamics of the pharmaceutical industry in Ireland. Spatial concentration indices indicate a particularly high level of spatial concentration in one of the industry's sub-sectors, namely, drug substance production. Based on interview data and secondary sources, a detailed investigation of the spatial dynamics of the Irish concentrations suggests that, while some agglomeration advantages have emerged, they remain relatively limited and have played only a minor role in shaping local industrial concentration. They are mainly of the urbanisation type, relating particularly to the pooled market for workers. The evidence serves to show that the kind of spatial planning-triggered satellite industrial platforms in late-developing economies do not automatically start generating substantial agglomeration economies and crucial technological spillovers, not even after, as in the case of the Cork pharmaceuticals concentration, nearly 40 years of existence.

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“…Transnational collaboration in creative conceptualization and financing occurred mainly with the UK, Canada, and the US and relied on a shared language, cultural heritage, and other forms of proximity. 13 This was in marked contrast to more labor-intensive elements of the production process that were outsourced to the Philippines and which received less creative and managerial input. Again we see that cultural production is spatially distributed, but this distribution is structured by a range of historic, economic, social, and cultural factors.…”

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Placing International Media Production

Kerr¹

2014

Media Industries Journal

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Abstract:Studies of contemporary media production have to grapple with the empirical, methodological, and theoretical challenges of internationalization. While cultural imperialism and the new international division of cultural labor theories have highlighted important power differentials internationally, they often lack empirical depth and focus on large traditional media companies and national, particularly Western, countries. In this short essay I consider how "spatialization" and the social production of space might provide a useful theoretical approach for studying international contemporary media production practices. I illustrate my argument by contrasting findings from empirical research on the factors shaping the spatialization of the digital games and broadcast animation industries: one an emerging industry struggling to legitimate its cultural standing and build international networks of production; the other a well-established cultural industry tied into national cultural policies and networks of production. An industry focus and relational approach to space allows us to capture the dynamic tension between international flows (of ideas, products, services, workers, and money) and the practices (policy, regulation, institutions, markets, technology, and content) that attempt to capture these flows in particular places. Keywords: Gaming, Globalization, Labor, Production, Political Economy Understanding Space and PlaceWhile much of the globalization literature talks of deterritorialization, transnationalism, and global flows, we are seeing at the same time more locational competition and attention being paid to aspects of place and/or space. When I use these terms, it is not in any absolute sense. Rather it is relational and, in terms of cultural production, it means that we need to investigate how and in what ways industries, companies, workers, texts, and users get embedded in particular spaces while simultaneously being involved in global flows. It is to question why a company has located in X or moved its production to Y and if and, in what ways, are the company and their products localized and particular. It is also to note that space and place are experienced both objectively and subjectively-thus companies and workers in the same industry and located in the same city may experience that city quite differently.

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Social and Spatial Structures of Innovation in the Irish Animation Industry

Cited by 15 publications

References 22 publications

Regional Innovation Systems and Global Flows of Knowledge

Regional Innovation Systems and Global Flows of Knowledge

Spatial Concentration in the Irish Pharmaceutical Industry: The Role of Spatial Planning and Agglomeration Economies

Placing International Media Production

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