Evolutionary Geography of Science and innovation

5 important questions on Evolutionary Geography of Science and innovation

Index of economic complexity

:  Index of Economic Complexity beats measures of competitiveness. It also beats by similar margins measures of human capital and governance. The distance tells something about the opportunities for countries related to diversification.

How do regions diversity and develop new growth paths?

· Relatedness also major input for regions to diversify into new industries and develop new growth paths
· regional branching: new industries branch out of technologically related local industries from which existing capabilities are exploited and recombined in new activities
· a new industry is more likely to enter a region when it is technologically related to other industries in the region
· existing industries tend to disappear from a region when these are not technologically related to other industries in the region

Path and place dependence in regional science:

how to decide what fields of knowledge to prioritise? In the context of increasing diversity of locations and topics, specialisation in research and innovation is a crucial policy issue, especially for regions and organisations that are not leaders in any of the major science or technology domain
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Smart specialisation (innovation policy):

an innovation policy concept intended to promote the efficient and effective use of public investment in research - was an instant hit with European policy makers.
· Its goal is to boost regional innovation in order to achieve economic growth and prosperity, by enabling regions and cities to focus on their strengths.
· Smart specialisation understands that spreading investment too thinly across several frontier technology fields risks limiting the impact in any one area.
· Framework through which EU supports regions to help them modernize.
o Advantage: takes context and subsidiarity seriously
o Problem: lobby may define the new specialization (region decide which industries)

Issue of smart specialization

The issue: Little attention has been directed to processes of knowledge production from a spatial perspective, especially little consideration has been given to different fields of knowledge produced within specific places. Furthermore, it is unclear at what role different scientific fields play in these regional specialisation processes and whether the specific type of research activity undertaken actually matters?

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