Regional innovation systems and entrepreneurial embeddedness

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Farinha, Luís
Ferreira, João
Ratten, Vanessa

Taylor & Francis

Luís Farinha, João Ferreira & Vanessa Ratten (2018): Regional innovation systems and entrepreneurial embeddedness, European Planning Studies, DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2018.1530146

10.1080/09654313.2018.1530146

Regional innovation systems and entrepreneurial embeddedness

2019-01-07T13:17:25Z
2019-01-07T13:17:25Z
2018

There has been an increased interest in understanding entrepreneurship practices in a regional development context, which has led to the concept of entrepreneurial regional innovation systems being developed (Cooke & Leydesdorff, 2006). The reason for this is due to the role entrepreneurial activity and resulting firm creation has on regional economic growth (Acs & Armington, 2004; Audretsch & Keilbach, 2005). Exercising a sense of embeddedness is a key determinant of individuals and firms choosing to locate in a region but it is also influenced by the entrepreneurship embedded in a region (Audretsch & Belitski, 2017). Whilst recent articles in European Planning Studies have stressed the need for entrepreneurship to be more integrated into regional innovation research (e.g. Cabras & Mount, 2015; Cooke, 2017; Stam, 2015; Yun, Cooke, & Park, 2017), less is known about how it is embedded in a region utilizing innovativeness and creativity perspectives.Thismeansamoreexplicitrecognitionoftheroleentrepreneurshipplaysandits interlinkages with regional studies can increase policy and research initiatives around this topic. This special issue is concerned with developing new perspectives on regional innovation systems and entrepreneurial embeddedness, thereby, offering exciting new directions for research about how the dynamics of innovation in a regional development context are explained by emerging entrepreneurial practices.
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