Showing papers by "Philip Cooke published in 2010"
TL;DR: It is concluded that those regions with innovative development agencies of the kind discussed will prosper from tapping new horizontal cross-fertilisation opportunities which are relatively costless and are easily turned into international knowledge portals.
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate the thesis that regional innovation systems are adept at facilitating new demands, notably from ‘platform’ industries or clusters because they may by means of policy instruments catalyse innovations across industry or cluster borders. They facilitate such transversality of knowledge flows because they already learned to integrate Triple Helix interactions and now are able to apply that logic to inter-cluster knowledge interactions. With reference to evidence from the evolution of renewable energy consumer and producer awareness and action, it is suggested that the basic thesis about innovation gains from such regional knowledge spillovers is relatively easy to find in exemplar renewable energy regions. It is concluded that those regions with innovative development agencies of the kind discussed will prosper from tapping new horizontal cross-fertilisation opportunities which are relatively costless and are easily turned into international knowledge portals.
105 citations
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01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of the knowledge economy in the European New Media and Tourism Sectors, focusing on the following: 1. Trends and drivers of the Knowledge Economy 2. The Rationale for Eurodite and an Introduction to the Sector Studies 3. Production-consumption models and knowledge dynamics in the Food and Drinks Sector 4. Comparative Analysis of Selected European Biotechnology Platforms 5. Distributed Knowledge and Creativity in ICT Alliance Networks 6. Knowledge Processes and Networks in the Automotive Sector 7. Tourism Knowledge Dynamics
Abstract: Contents: 1. Trends and Drivers of the Knowledge Economy 2. The Rationale for Eurodite and an Introduction to the Sector Studies 3. Production-Consumption Models and Knowledge Dynamics in the Food and Drinks Sector 4. Comparative Analysis of Selected European Biotechnology Platforms 5. Knowledge Phases, Cognitive & Relational Distance in ICT Alliance Networks 6. Distributed Knowledge and Creativity in the European New Media Sector 7. Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) 8. Knowledge Processes and Networks in the Automotive Sector 9. Tourism Knowledge Dynamics 10. Analysis and Summaries from the Seven Sector Chapters 11. Platforms of Innovation: Some Examples 12. The Matrix: Evolving Policies for Platform Knowledge Flows Index
30 citations
TL;DR: The paper finds that lean is capable of conceptualising most generic trends in aerospace outsourcing and most of the Airbus policies, but neglects the relevance of knowledge to outsourcing, and fails to recognise the diversity of theAirbus supply approach.
Abstract: Lean production and supply concepts are amongst the most influential management theories. Yet, they have scarcely been applied to aerospace, an industry sector of great importance. This paper identifies generic trends in aerospace outsourcing and explores to what extent the lean supply approach is fit to conceptualise them. It investigates to what degree the outsourcing strategies of Airbus UK and the wider Airbus operations are explicable with the lean approach. The paper finds that lean is capable of conceptualising most generic trends in aerospace outsourcing and most of the Airbus policies. Lean neglects the relevance of knowledge to outsourcing, however, and fails to recognise the diversity of the Airbus supply approach. Knowledge management in this process is now crucial. Technological capabilities are central to the Airbus strategies, illustrating the need to acknowledge knowledge as a key explanatory parameter of outsourcing theory. In conclusion, we find the higher the knowledge content, the more partnering occurs, the lower the content, the more hierarchical the relationship are.
28 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on current policies and progress on hydrogen and fuel cell development in China and discuss development prospects and challenges with a view to achieving better understanding of the emerging hydrogen economy.
Abstract: Hydrogen and fuel cells may have a major role in the future energy market if governments give a high priority to reduction of CO2 emissions with associated R&D investment in efficient hydrogen technologies. It is predicted that China would have the highest share of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in 2050 if their ambitious climate and energy security policies are adopted (OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)/IEA (International Energy Agency) (2005) Prospects for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells (Paris: OECD Publications)). R&D in hydrogen and fuel cell technologies in China has been pushed by the central government's commitment to reduce air pollution emissions from transportation, to enhance energy security and improve national competitiveness. The paper focuses on current policies and progress on hydrogen and fuel cell development in China. Development prospects and challenges are discussed with a view to achieving better understanding of the emerging hydrogen economy.
25 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that knowledge cross-pollination, often from industrially unrelated business sectors, is now commonplace in the economics of innovation, which represents the rise of an externalized "matrix" of knowledge flow dynamics among firms and industries.
Abstract: This ground-breaking book offers a coherent theoretical analysis of contemporary industrial knowledge flow dynamics. Furthermore, it advances wide-ranging and varied empirical findings from international comparative research which demonstrate that knowledge cross-pollination, often from industrially unrelated business sectors, is now commonplace in the economics of innovation. This, the authors argue, represents the rise of an externalized ‘matrix’ of knowledge flow dynamics among firms and industries. The book also examines related economic governance research that reveals the catalytic role that leading innovation policy agencies play in animating knowledge flow dynamics, particularly at the regional level. The chapters address various sectors including food and drink, biotechnology, ICT, new media, the automotive industry and tourism.
20 citations
TL;DR: The authors rigorously explores the critical, initial stage of cluster emergence in which the seeds for further growth are sown, and concludes that whether economic growth actually occurs, however, ultimately depends on various regional conditions and the processes in place.
Abstract: This book rigorously explores the critical, initial stage of cluster emergence in which the seeds for further growth are sown. Whether economic growth actually occurs, however, ultimately depends on various regional conditions and the processes in place.
16 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine strategic niche management theory applied to green technology industries in a number of different geographical and economic settings and point out the centrality of geographical space in the formation not only of paradigms of regime change in industrial organisation but also of more thoroughgoing transitions from one socio-technical landscape, within which many technological regimes may have been subject to 'creative destruction', to another coevolutionary landscape that may be the setting for the next set of successive post-hydrocarbon technological regimes.
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine strategic niche management theory applied to green technology industries in a number of different geographical and economic settings. This is aided by a further quest, to establish firm groundwork for a neo-Schumpeterian theory of economic geography based upon his theorisation of the key roles of innovation and entrepreneurship in regional development. These two perspectives fit together rather seamlessly conceptually and in the empirical case material drawn from the USA and Europe. The results point to the centrality of geographical space in the formation not only of paradigms of regime change in industrial organisation but also of more thoroughgoing transitions from one socio-technical landscape, within which many technological regimes may have been subject to ‘creative destruction’, to another coevolutionary landscape that may be the setting for the next set of, in this case, successive post-hydrocarbon technological regimes. Observation of potential landscape change of the kind in focus in the paper is rare, and the conclusions do not go much beyond the identification of the first key elements from which the grander regime and landscape transitions may be consequent.
16 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the contribution of evolutionary economic geography to thinking about ObranchingO from path dependence and the creation of new paths, and provide evidence for key generic spatial processes of path transition.
Abstract: Since Paul David published his economic histories of path dependent innovation the subject has exerted fascination upon scholars of innovation, technological change and, latterly, regional scientists and economic geographers. This paper speaks to the third and fourth of these communities in the main, though it may have theoretical and empirical elements of interest to the first two as well. The paper begins with an overview of recent perspectives and critiques concerning the relevance of the path dependence concept to the understanding of regional economic development and its associated governance. It then goes on to discuss the contribution of evolutionary economic geography to thinking about ObranchingO from path dependence and the creation of new paths. Evidence for key generic spatial processes of path transition is provided before the main content of the paper concludes with new insights into the contributions of regional innovation policy to path evolution. Conclusions are then drawn.
13 citations
30 Nov 2010
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that knowledge cross-pollination, often from industrially unrelated business sectors, is now commonplace in the economics of innovation, which represents the rise of an externalized "matrix" of knowledge flow dynamics among firms and industries.
Abstract: This ground-breaking book offers a coherent theoretical analysis of contemporary industrial knowledge flow dynamics. Furthermore, it advances wide-ranging and varied empirical findings from international comparative research which demonstrate that knowledge cross-pollination, often from industrially unrelated business sectors, is now commonplace in the economics of innovation. This, the authors argue, represents the rise of an externalized ‘matrix’ of knowledge flow dynamics among firms and industries. The book also examines related economic governance research that reveals the catalytic role that leading innovation policy agencies play in animating knowledge flow dynamics, particularly at the regional level. The chapters address various sectors including food and drink, biotechnology, ICT, new media, the automotive industry and tourism.
12 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that knowledge cross-pollination, often from industrially unrelated business sectors, is now commonplace in the economics of innovation, which represents the rise of an externalized matrix of knowledge flow dynamics among firms and industries.
Abstract: This ground-breaking book offers a coherent theoretical analysis of contemporary industrial knowledge flow dynamics. Furthermore, it advances wide-ranging and varied empirical findings from international comparative research which demonstrate that knowledge cross-pollination, often from industrially unrelated business sectors, is now commonplace in the economics of innovation. This, the authors argue, represents the rise of an externalized ‘matrix’ of knowledge flow dynamics among firms and industries. The book also examines related economic governance research that reveals the catalytic role that leading innovation policy agencies play in animating knowledge flow dynamics, particularly at the regional level. The chapters address various sectors including food and drink, biotechnology, ICT, new media, the automotive industry and tourism.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the transformation of China's national and regional innovation systems and argue that China's innovation system has become more enterprise-centered since the economic reform started in 1979.
Abstract: This article examines the transformation of China’s national and regional innovation systems. We review an emerging literature on innovation research on China, especially geographical studies of innovation, and argue that China’s national innovation system has become more enterprise-centered since the economic reform started in 1979. This article systematically evaluates the strength and weakness of China’s national innovation system and argues that the new innovation system has a significant regional dimension demonstrated through attempts to establish regional innovation systems. R&Ds are concentrated in high-tech development zones in China. However, these zones are more manufacturing oriented. In other words, there is more development than research. These regional systems, however, play a role in promoting economic competitiveness in their respective regions.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that knowledge cross-pollination, often from industrially unrelated business sectors, is now commonplace in the economics of innovation, which represents the rise of an externalized "matrix" of knowledge flow dynamics among firms and industries.
Abstract: This ground-breaking book offers a coherent theoretical analysis of contemporary industrial knowledge flow dynamics. Furthermore, it advances wide-ranging and varied empirical findings from international comparative research which demonstrate that knowledge cross-pollination, often from industrially unrelated business sectors, is now commonplace in the economics of innovation. This, the authors argue, represents the rise of an externalized ‘matrix’ of knowledge flow dynamics among firms and industries. The book also examines related economic governance research that reveals the catalytic role that leading innovation policy agencies play in animating knowledge flow dynamics, particularly at the regional level. The chapters address various sectors including food and drink, biotechnology, ICT, new media, the automotive industry and tourism.
TL;DR: This paper contrasts proximities, skills and knowledge in the aerospace industry of Wales, UK, and distinguishes between three areas of main strengths and assesses their current and future viability.
Abstract: This paper contrasts proximities, skills and knowledge in the aerospace industry of Wales, UK. It distinguishes between three areas of main strengths and assesses their current and future viability. North Wales represents a vertical production supply chain cluster dominated by an Airbus plant. The industry in South Wales is more fragmented and less embedded in the region, and qualifies as an agglomeration. The advent of composites as the wing material of the future devalues the metal expertise of the north and calls for the development of composite skills. The south builds on a more heterogeneous knowledge base requiring diversified strategies for knowledge development, but should benefit most from fostering composite RDT.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that knowledge cross-pollination, often from industrially unrelated business sectors, is now commonplace in the economics of innovation, which represents the rise of an externalized "matrix" of knowledge flow dynamics among firms and industries.
Abstract: This ground-breaking book offers a coherent theoretical analysis of contemporary industrial knowledge flow dynamics. Furthermore, it advances wide-ranging and varied empirical findings from international comparative research which demonstrate that knowledge cross-pollination, often from industrially unrelated business sectors, is now commonplace in the economics of innovation. This, the authors argue, represents the rise of an externalized ‘matrix’ of knowledge flow dynamics among firms and industries. The book also examines related economic governance research that reveals the catalytic role that leading innovation policy agencies play in animating knowledge flow dynamics, particularly at the regional level. The chapters address various sectors including food and drink, biotechnology, ICT, new media, the automotive industry and tourism.