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Local social knowledge management: Community actors, institutions and multilevel governance in regional foresight exercises
Meric S. Gertler,David A. Wolfe +1 more
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In this article, the authors provide an overview of the most important ideas in the recent literature on innovation systems, technological dynamism and local economic development, and show how the actions of individuals to shape collective local visioning exercises interact with larger institutional structures to produce local outcomes.About:
This article is published in Futures.The article was published on 2004-02-01. It has received 137 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Local economic development & Mindset.read more
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The Emergence of Transdisciplinarity as a Form of Research
Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn,Susette Biber-Klemm,Walter Grossenbacher-Mansuy,Holger Hoffmann-Riem,Dominique Joye,Christian Pohl,Urs Wiesmann,Elisabeth Zemp +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on transdisciplinarity as a form of research that is driven by the need to solve problems of the life-world, and they define transdisciplinary research as three types of knowledge: systems knowledge, target knowledge and transformation knowledge, and reflect their mutual dependencies in the research process.
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Better Rules or Stronger Communities? On the Social Foundations of Institutional Change and Its Economic Effects
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the relationship between community and society as complementary forms of organization whose relative balance and interaction shape the economic potential of every territory and argue that changes in the balance between communities and society take place constantly and affect the medium and long-run development prospects of every region.
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Orienting European innovation systems towards grand challenges and the roles that FTA can play
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the contributions that future-oriented technology analysis (FTA) might make to orienting innovation processes towards grand challenges, and propose that FTA could be better exploited to deliver its structuring and capacity-building benefits, which are hardly recognized in the EU's existing innovation policy instruments.
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Institutional Entrepreneurship for Knowledge Regions: In Search of a Fresh Set of Questions for Regional Innovation Studies
Markku Sotarauta,Riina Pulkkinen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the institutional change process and innovation underpinning knowledge-based regional development from the point of view of institutional entrepreneurship, and discuss the following question: what kind of conceptual base provides empirical studies with a fresh set of research questions.
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Creativity and regional innovation: Evidence from EU regions ★
Leo Sleuwaegen,P. Boiardi +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the role of creative workers in the region as a source and foundational element of regional innovation in the European Union is analyzed and the empirical relevance of this factor, which they label inspiration, within the structure of a recursive model for regional innovation for a set of 83 European regions.
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