How do firms acquire knowledge in different sectoral and regional contexts?

Franz Tödtling, Michaela Trippl

Publication: Chapter in book/Conference proceedingChapter in edited volume

Abstract

This chapter provides a review and discussion of recent conceptual and empirical contributions on the nature and geography of firms’ knowledge acquisition activities. We offer a systematic conceptual view on the pattern on knowledge sourcing, bringing into focus and combining the notions of industrial knowledge bases (sectoral contexts), which are supposed to vary considerably with respect to the transferability of their key knowledge types and regional innovation systems (regional contexts), which are supposed to differ substantially in terms of the availability of knowledge sources. The empirical part of the chapter draws on cases from Austria, Finland, Germany and Sweden and provides an analysis and comparison of knowledge sourcing activities in analytical, synthetic and symbolic industrial sectors in metropolitan, specialised industrial and peripheral regional contexts.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHandbook of Geography of Innovation
Editors Carrincazeaux, Ch., D. Doloreux and R. Shearmur
Place of PublicationCheltenham
PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing
Pages142 - 154
Publication statusPublished - 2016

Austrian Classification of Fields of Science and Technology (ÖFOS)

  • 507023 Location development
  • 502039 Structural policy
  • 502014 Innovation research
  • 507011 Spatial research
  • 507014 Regional development
  • 507
  • 507016 Regional economy

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