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Magnus Nilsson
Senior lecturer
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Regional innovation policy and coordination: Illustrations from Southern Sweden
Author
Summary, in English
The analytical framework of regional innovation systems highlights the systemic nature of regional economies and the need for policy coordination within regions. Coordination presupposes an understanding of the underlying problems that may act as barriers to regional development. Three generic problems facing regions are: lack of resources (e.g. human and financial capital), negative lock-in (e.g. to historically strong sectors), and fragmentation of actors and activities. There are only a few examples of innovation system studies that investigate these problems by analysing actors and their activities as well as the institutional framework surrounding them. This paper offers a framework for analysing innovation system problems, focusing on actors and activities as well as institutions. In doing so, the need for coordination of activities performed by different actors is highlighted, as is the relevance of neutrality in the coordinating function. Three sectoral policy initiatives in a Swedish region are studied.
Department/s
- Department of Business Administration
- CIRCLE
Publishing year
2015
Language
English
Pages
147-161
Publication/Series
Science and Public Policy
Volume
42
Issue
2
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Topic
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
- Business Administration
Keywords
- innovation
- innovation policy
- coordination
- Skåne
- innovation system
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1471-5430