Local industrial agglomerations vis-à-vis global competitive networks: marshallian notions of economic zones, innovation and territorial development
Innovation is one of the key contributions that clusters can make in driving regional and territorial development. This exhaustive postMarshallian literary review compares and contrasts the notion of innovation and explains its evolution within the context of recent theoretical approaches explain...
| Autor Principal: | Ugalde Hernandez, Oscar |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Editorial Universidad Nacional
2020
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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8566-7821 http://hdl.handle.net/11056/18768 https://doi.org/10.15359/eys.25-57.3 |
| Sumario: |
Innovation is one of the key contributions that clusters can make in
driving regional and territorial development. This exhaustive postMarshallian literary review compares and contrasts the notion of
innovation and explains its evolution within the context of recent
theoretical approaches explaining modern industrial agglomerations and
territorial development.
Beginning in early 1990s and ending with the most recent intellectual
contributions, this study analyzes innovation, particularly in relation to
how it is employed in the cluster and how it could contribute to the
development and competitiveness of clusters, territories and nations.
Porter’s diamond model and its extended versions, which focus on
demand and other market and factor determinants, are regarded as the
intellectual catalysts for the notion of innovation in relation to clusters
and territories. However, the study notes that the ambiguity and
flexibility of these models led French post-Porterian writers to consider the role played by spatiality and relationality through networks, sectors
and industries in sparking innovation as well as knowledge creation and
diffusion. Additionally, political economy theoretical approaches, such as
the helix innovation models and the Marxist-inspired semiotic analysis,
have also stimulated the use of innovation as a factor of change, which
spills over the influenced territories and nations.
As innovation is incorporated into each of the models examined, its
contribution becomes increasingly evident. The common denominator
among all post-Marshallian theories is the crucial and shifting role that
innovation plays as a catalyst for competitiveness and development at
the cluster, territorial, national and, global levels. |
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