H2020Индивидуална стипендия2022–2024

PeripheRIS · Enabling institutional change for innovation in European peripheries: from policy to implementation

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2022-09-01 → 2024-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 183 473 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Enabling institutional change for innovation in European peripheries: from policy to implementation

Innovation is widely accepted as a key driver of regional competitiveness and growth, but policies aiming to support European peripheries have not been successful in curbing regional polarization, e.g. as understood by indicators of innovation performance and economic development. While institutions are seen to play a key role in peripheral development, serious inquiry into institutional aspects of peripheral regional innovation systems (RIS) has only recently been sparked. Similarly, ample research has focused on innovation and regional policy content (the 'what'), while policy implementation has been relatively neglected (the 'how'). PeripheRIS undertook research to enable institutional support for innovation in European peripheries, with particular attention to practical implementation, focusing on the interplay between institutions and actors in complex institutional-entrepreneurial relations. In peripheries, these can be reduced to key personalities on both sides, and the focus turns to the actors at work within the innovation ecosystem. The research focused on the case study of South Tyrol, Italy. A mixed methods approach was developed, exploiting social network analysis and innovation biography methods, to trace the development of the innovation ecosystem in a key innovative sector, considering the actors that constitute and are drawn into the network over time as well as the scope of innovation(s) pursued. In doing so, the study aimed to investigate actors’ motivations for partnering in innovative activities, the quality and performance of the innovation ecosystem (i.e. mechanisms of support) and institutional enablers and barriers to innovation. All the while, the approach aimed to stimulate the participants to think beyond the traditional scope of techno-economic innovation to also consider social and ecological innovations as a means of addressing their challenges and development aims. In addition to academic outputs, the project planned to produce a practical guidebook with recommendations to local and regional governments for supporting innovation in peripheries.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

PeripheRIS undertakes research to enable institutional support for innovation policy in European peripheries, with a focus on policy implementation. For more than a decade since the financial crisis, uneven development in Europe has intensified, while the economic, social and political problems faced by peripheral regions have become widely recognized. Yet, under the EU's regional and innovation policies, peripheries are meant to compete with core regions to be economically sustainable - a process which relies on innovation as a key driver of economic growth and prosperity. While it has been suggested for some time that institutions play a role in peripheral development, serious inquiry into institutional aspects of regional innovation systems (RIS) has only recently been sparked. PeripheRIS focuses on the interplay between institutions and actors for the innovation-driven, sustainable transition of peripheral regions in Europe, bridging institutional and entrepreneurial strands of RIS as they unfold in complex institutional-entrepreneurial relations. In peripheries, these can be reduced to key personalities on both sides, and the focus turns to the actors at work within the system. The research aims to uncover mechanisms of institutional support to innovation. From his placement at Eurac Research in Bolzano, Bradley Loewen will develop a case study on the innovation system of Italy's South Tyrol region for comparison to prior cases in Central and Eastern Europe. A mixed methods approach is adopted based on qualitative (interviews) and quantitative (causal process tracing) methods. The cases will support theory-building in the area of evolutionary economic geography, to overcome the need for deep contextualization in future case research, which is a limitation for policy learning. In addition to academic outputs, the project will result in a practical guidebook with recommendations to local and regional governments for supporting innovation in peripheries.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

ACCADEMIA EUROPEA DI BOLZANO · BolzanoКоординаторИталия