Can emerging regional innovation strategies in less developed European regions bridge the main gaps in the innovation process?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F16%3A10328513" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/16:10328513 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263774X15601680" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263774X15601680</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263774X15601680" target="_blank" >10.1177/0263774X15601680</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Can emerging regional innovation strategies in less developed European regions bridge the main gaps in the innovation process?

Original language description

This article considers key barriers to the process of innovation, as identified in a survey of firms and research institutions in the Czech region of South Moravia, which has been trying for more than a decade to spur innovation via successive regional innovation strategies. The article makes particular reference to the nature of newly emerging regional innovation systems in postcommunist countries and contributes to debates concerning the significance of localized processes of knowledge creation and dissemination for the competitiveness of a region. The article is based upon 188 in-depth interviews with representatives of firms and 90 interviews with leaders of prominent research teams in the region. The in-depth interviews allowed the identification of a wide array of barriers to the innovation process, which proved to be systematically related to the level of a firm's entrepreneurial ambition. The level of ambition of firm's strategy also translates into differing extent, to which analytical knowledge is being employed. The analysis identifies factors that are not yet adequately reflected in national or regional innovation policies and strategies, and several associated policy recommendations are set out in the concluding section of the paper.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

DE - Earth magnetism, geodesy, geography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

ISSN

0263-774X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

34

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

1095-1114

UT code for WoS article

000383213100005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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