Regional Innovation Policy beyond ‘Best Practice’: Lessons from Sweden
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Summary, in English
This paper deals with policy measures in the regional innovation system of Scania, Southern Sweden. Focus is dedicated to requirements on innovation policy from actors representing different industries. Previous studies have identified profound differences with regard the organization of knowledge sourcing between firms and other actors in industries drawing on different knowledge bases. In correspondence with these findings, industries differ also with regard to how policy measures aiming to support innovation are perceived and acquired. Despite this, there is a tendency among regional policy programs to base their strategies on one ‘best practice’-model, inspired by successful (or sometimes less successful) cases in other parts of the world. The paper presents an in-depth analysis of such policy support targeting three industries located in one region, and ends with a suggestion to how those should be adapted to render influence on the institutional framework of the regional innovation system.
Publiceringsår
2010
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
CIRCLE Electronic Working Papers
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Dokumenttyp
Rapport
Förlag
Lund University, CIRCLE - Center for Innovation, Research and Competences in the Learning Economy
Ämne
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
- Human Geography
Status
Published
Report number
2010:14