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Outsmarting geography: implementing territorial innovation strategies in sparsely populated regions
Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
Nordregio, Stockholm, Sweden.
Nordregio, Stockholm, Sweden.
2017 (English)In: European Planning Studies, ISSN 0965-4313, E-ISSN 1469-5944, Vol. 25, no 8, p. 1316-1333Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The smart specialization literature has hardly addressed the role of geography in promoting novel approaches to local and regional innovation processes beyond classic clustering approaches. Based on empirical observations from five sparsely populated regions, the present article proposes original insights that contribute to the theoretical debate on the place-based nature and spatial dimension of entrepreneurial discovery, the key functional mechanism behind smart specialization. First, it advocates the added-value of integrating strategic spatial planning approaches at different stages of smart specialization implementation, from design to operationalization. Second, it suggests that more effective ways of creating domains through shared knowledge bases of existing sectors should aim at promoting collaboration between second-tier economic agents. Finally, the specificity of the territorial preconditions found in sparsely populated regions brings to the fore new forms of proximity relations based on institutional, cognitive and organizational proximity rather than on geographical clustering.

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Routledge, 2017. Vol. 25, no 8, p. 1316-1333
Keywords [en]
Smart specialization, sparsely populated regions, resource economies, spatial planning
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Human Geography
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-112356DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2017.1320355ISI: 000402862400003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85018328616OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-112356DiVA, id: diva2:1844431
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