OECD Regional Development Working Papers
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- OECD Regional Development Papers
Working papers from the Regional Development Policy Division of the OECD cover a full range of topics including regional statistics and analysis, urban governance and economics, rural governance and economics, and multi-level governance. Depending on the programme of work, the papers can cover specific topics such as regional innovation and networks, the determinants of regional growth or fiscal consolidation at the sub-national level.
- ISSN: 20737009 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/20737009
Strengthening Global-Local Connectivity in Regional Innovation Strategies
Implications for Regional Innovation Policy
With innovation increasingly important to economic development, innovation policy is attracting
attention from politicians and policy-makers at all levels. Regional policy-makers face a distinctive
challenge in that innovation takes place in international networks reaching far beyond their region‘s
boundaries. What regional policy-makers can achieve is therefore constrained by the kind of firms and
innovation networks already in their regions. This paper creates a framework for analysing regional
innovation policy sensitive to this global dimension. Drawing on a global-local network analysis, the
paper develops a regional classification for global-local innovation connectivity. The paper then analyses a
set of common innovation policy measures, identifying how these policies can be optimised across these
regional classes. The paper then highlights typical policy strengths and weaknesses for each of these
various classes of regional global orientation. It argues that regional innovation strategies should pay more
attention to their regions‘ global orientation if they are to become an effective tool across OECD members
for improving innovation performance and economic growth rates.
Keywords: innovation policy, networks, economic development, firms, universities, regional competitiveness, regional innovation strategies, regional development
JEL:
H7: Public Economics / State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations;
R5: Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics / Regional Government Analysis;
L2: Industrial Organization / Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior;
O31: Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth / Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights / Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives;
R3: Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics / Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location;
O32: Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth / Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights / Management of Technological Innovation and R&D;
D2: Microeconomics / Production and Organizations;
O23: Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth / Development Planning and Policy / Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Development
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