Innovative Milieus als Extrempunkte der Interpenetration von Wirtschafts- und Wissenschaftssystem
Peter Franz
Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft,
1999
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Innovative Milieux: Advanced Posts of Interpenetration between the Economic System and the Science System
Peter Franz
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 71,
1998
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A growing number of governments, political parties, and enterprises set the theme „innovation“ on their agenda and join in the global race to more competitive national economies. In this race the concept of the „innovative milieu“ serves as an important point of orientation and as a political target that, on the first glance, seems to be transferable in concrete political measures. A basic feature of innovative milieux is the quick and easy transfer of knowledge to products in demand. This speed-up in the diffusion of knowledge is not only interesting with respect to the economic advantages but also with respect to science. It is the basic thesis of this paper that innovative milieux represent special cases where the economic system and the science system interpenetrate in an extreme way. Empirical findings show that the actors of innovative milieux have a strong cultural proximity to basic attitudes and behavior within the science system. This relates to the institutionalization of trial and error, the reinforcement of exploratory behavior, the flow of information, and to a special mixture of cooperation and competition. An essential feature of innovative milieux derives from the network relations of its actors. These relations have to be balanced a) to the need to create trust and reduce uncertainty, and b) to the need to stay permeable enough for linkages with new actors from outside. With regard to time innovative milieux have to be conceived from an evolutionary perspective. This involves several steps: Development of prerequisites, consolidation, attraction of labor and enterprises from other regions. From the evolutionary perspective, too, possible factors of preventing or accelerating the „entropic death“ (Camagni 1991) of innovative milieux can be discussed. The exceptional character of innovative milieux has consequences for innovation-oriented political strategies. The self-enforcing dynamics of innovative milieux create a tendency to more economic inequality between regions (core-periphery differences). This is contradictory to political strategies in which innovation-oriented policy is applied to reach an offset between prospering and impoverished regions. In many cases a strategy starting from the assumption of an enduring non-innovative milieu seems to be more realistic and more promising. Further on, the new more direct links between enterprises and research institutes question the current shape of technology transfer institutions. Finally the potential effects of the new trend to encourage the entrepreneurship of research staff on the science system are discussed.
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Technological specialization patterns in the manufacturing sector: A German-German comparison
Klaus Holst
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 7,
1997
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Untersuchungen (aus dem Jahr 1995) zeigen, dass das ostdeutsche Verarbeitende Gewerbe im Vergleich zur Industrie in Westdeutschland anteilig weniger Güter der Spitzentechnologie und höherwertiger Technik produziert. Diese Unterschiede spiegeln sich auch in den Innovationsaktivitäten, z. B. in den Patentanmeldungen, wider. Positiv ist, dass die Patentanmeldungen trotz des geschrumpften FuE-Personalbestandes angestiegen sind.
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East German technology and founders centers in buildup phase
Peter Franz
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 16,
1995
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Seit 1990 haben zahlreiche ostdeutsche Städte im Rahmen der kommunalen Wirtschaftspolitik zum Instrument der Einrichtung von Technologie- und Gründerzentren gegriffen. Trotz ihrer kurzen Betriebsdauer zeigen sich bereits deutlich differenzierte Entwicklungen: Jene Zentren sind expansiver und innovationsorientierter, die Hochschulnähe und -anbindung aufweisen.
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Marktöffnung, Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Innovation
Jörg Matthies
External Publications,
1994
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Innovation in Small German Firms: Diminishing Returns, Randomness and Spatial Linkage
Ulrich Blum, Marc Gaudry
Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft,
1989
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Regional Determinants of the Innovation Process
Ulrich Blum, R. Koblo
Jahrbuch für Sozialwissenschaft,
1987
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