The role of cross-sector partnerships in the dynamics between places and innovation ecosystems
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2024-03
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28
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R and D Management
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The dynamics between places and innovation ecosystems and the role that cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) can play in regenerating places and in revitalizing innovation ecosystems remain poorly theorized. In this study we use two cases – Humber (UK) and Southwest Finland – to develop a conceptual model that demonstrates the vicious and virtuous dynamics between places and innovation ecosystems. We show that CSPs can act as herding spaces – arenas where actors from different organizations get together to address a common purpose and connect with the institutional context – and alter these vicious and virtuous dynamics. Specifically, our findings shed light on four mechanisms that enable CSPs to act as herding spaces and so to help break away from the vicious (vitalizing role) and reinforce the virtuous (nurturing role) dynamics between places and innovation ecosystems: recognition of place-based challenges, improvement or utilization of place attachment, development of purpose ecosystems, and direct engagement in place regeneration activities.Description
Funding Information: Several initiatives and investments also supported by the LEP helped of regional actors. Humber LEP supported Hull's becoming the cultural city of 2017. Lord Haskins, Chair of the Humber LEP, said that Hull becoming the cultural city, together with ‘the wider regional economic regeneration as part of the Humber's Energy Estuary, has the potential to act as a catalyst to change perceptions and, in turn, the region's fortunes’ (Humber LEP, 2013b ). For instance, the Hull Blitz Trail project regenerated the landscape. It helped ‘trigger memories for insiders, who have a shared common past, and at the same time, […] represent shared pasts to outsiders who might be interested in knowing about them in the present’ (Tomlinson, 2020 , p. 2). improve the place attachment Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors. R&D Management published by RADMA and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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Dzhengiz, T & Patala, S 2024, ' The role of cross-sector partnerships in the dynamics between places and innovation ecosystems ', R and D Management, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 370-397 . https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12589
