The challenge of constructing regional advantages in peripheral areas: The case of marine biotechnology in Tromsø, Norway

Karlsen, James; Isaksen, Arne; Spilling, Olav R.

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“…Considerable resources have been invested to obtain a growing biotechnology industry, both through research activity at the University of Tromsø and policy tools to facilitate academic spin-offs, firm collaboration, etc. (Karlsen et al 2011). Thus, the question of constructing regional advantage is highly relevant in the Tromsø case as in the three other cases including dominant regional industries.…”

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“…The former case studies are extensively analysed and reported, with regard to Tromsø in Karlsen et al (2011), Horten in Isaksen (2007), Raufoss in Isaksen and Karlsen (2012b) and Agder in Karlsen (2012a and2012c). The Tromsø and the Agder cases are also compared in terms of the role of the regional universities in Isaksen and Karlsen (2010a), while Raufoss and Horten are two of the cases analysed in Isaksen (2009).…”

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“…Therefore, many firms in Tromsø are in the research and test phase of the innovation process. The importance of research activity means that the marine biotechnology firms in Tromsø are classified as STI-or a mix of STI-and DUI-firms (Karlsen et al 2011). The element of practical knowledge and the DUI mode include firms with health related product like omega 3.…”

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“…No 'one-sizefits-all' policy prescription exists to construct regional advantage in every case (Tödtling and Trippl 2005). Policy tools have to be tailor-made for specific regional circumstances, and, in particular, four factors should be considered when adapting policy, which constitute the building blocks of the perspective of constructing regional advantage (Karlsen et al 2011).…”

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Can small regions construct regional advantages? The case of four Norwegian regions

Isaksen

Karlsen

2012

European Urban and Regional Studies

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The conceptual framework of constructing regional advantage (CRA) is implicitly relevant for large, well-off regions that have strong regional innovation systems, a diversity of industrial sectors and resourceful firms that can partake in global knowledge networks. This paper discusses the extent to which small regions, with less developed regional innovation systems, may also constitute the basis for developing regional advantage. Four cases of regional industries dominated by different innovation modes make up the empirical test bed in the paper. The innovation modes are STI (Science, Technology, Innovation), CCI (Complex, Combined Innovation) and DUI (Doing, Using, Interacting). The CRA framework is found to represent a useful conceptual construct also for small regions provided some reformulations. Adapting the CRA framework to small regions involves focusing more on increasing the innovation capabilities at the firm level, placing less emphasis on the endogenous capacity of regional innovation systems -but emphasising the importance of experience-based knowledge in local labour markets -and concentrating more on the need for diversity of knowledge bases at the regional level. Policy lessons for constructing regional advantage in small regions should, in general, consider the upgrading of DUI-firms and stimulating extraregional links.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Section: Case Studies Of Regional Advantage Diverse Innovation Modesmentioning

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Can small regions construct regional advantages? The case of four Norwegian regions

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Karlsen

2012

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…By contrast, existing KIBS adjust to the regionally predominant industrial sector comprising larger firms (Thomi and Böhn, 2003). Overall, the knowledge transfer and the commercialization of knowledge is considered problematic and ineffective in peripheral RIS (Karlsen et al, 2011). Focusing on structural change in traditional industries, Varis et al (2012) suggest knowledge-intensive firms as an instrument of regional policy to increase the level of innovativeness in peripheral regions.…”

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Knowledge-Intensive Business Services as Credence Goods—a Demand-Side Approach

Feser

Proeger

2015

J Knowl Econ

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract: Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) constitute a major source of innovative knowledge for small-and medium-sized enterprises. In regional innovation systems, KIBS play a crucial role in distributing innovations and improving the region's overall innovative capacities. While the specific properties and effects on client firms and sectors have been comprehensively discussed, the internal perspective of client firms, i.e. the processes and problems in selecting, using, evaluating and recommending KIBS, has been neglected to date. Using a qualitative approach, we describe the internal mechanisms and problems of SMEs cooperating with various KIBS and discuss the implications for regional innovation systems from a policy-making perspective. We find that all stages of cooperation of SMEs and KIBS are characterized by strong information asymmetries, distrust and uncertainty about the effects of using external know-how, which yields the interpretation that SMEs perceive KIBS as credence goods. While informal networks are used to reduce information barriers, they regularly prove counterproductive by disseminating worst-case examples. Regional policy aiming at developing instruments for fostering innovative cooperation could thus strengthen formal networks that primarily create trust between KIBS and SMEs to systematically reduce mutual suspicions and information asymmetries. Terms of use: Documents in

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