There is no “one-size-fits-all” regional innovation policy, as regional innovation systems (RIS) differ widely in terms of prior innovation capabilities, industrial base, and institutional contexts. Using Ruta N, a regional innovation agency in Medellín, Colombia, as a single, significant, critical, and high-impact case, this thesis investigates the strategies implemented by the municipally-owned intermediary organization to support new industrial path development. The thesis finds that there exists a “one-size-fits-many” regional innovation governance structure and institutional arrangement to upgrade RIS in a systematic manner. Ruta N has been created from the close institutional proximity between the public and private sectors to respond to specific innovation challenges in its RIS. The role of Ruta N is to continuously monitor its RIS, to find weaknesses in its RIS, and to find the solutions to upgrade its RIS while playing the role of a knowledge gatekeeper engaging in the “tropicalization” of extra-regional knowledge to support new industrial path development. Medellín’s economic structure is transitioning from industrial towards more knowledge-based and service-based activities. During a period of regional structural change in the economy, the socio-institutional and the techno-economic structures are temporarily decoupled due to the relative inertia of the social, organizational, and institutional structures compared to rapid changes in the technoeconomic structure. The lag in co-evolution between the socio-institutional and the techno-economic structures generates inefficiencies and instabilities in the RIS that requires policy interventions. Ruta N has devised programs to accelerate the coevolution of the social, organizational, and institutional structure with the novel techno-economic structure. Finally, this thesis recommends a framework for designing such institutional arrangements in specialized and organizationally thick RISs that are located on the knowledge periphery to support new industrial path development and the technological catch-up process.

Non esiste una politica di innovazione regionale “unica”, poiché i sistemi di innovazione regionali (SIR) differiscono ampiamente in termini di capacità di innovazione, base industriale, e contesti istituzionali. Usando Ruta N, un'agenzia di innovazione regionale a Medellín in Colombia, come singolo caso significativo, critico e di grande impatto, questa tesi vuole indagare le strategie implementate dall'organizzazione intermediaria di proprietà comunale per supportare il nuovo sviluppo industriale. La tesi rileva l’esistenza di una struttura di governo dell'innovazione regionale “taglia unica” e un accordo istituzionale per aggiornare i SIR in modo sistematico. Ruta N è nata dalla stretta vicinanza istituzionale tra il settore pubblico e quello privato per rispondere a specifiche sfide di innovazione nei suoi SIR. Il ruolo di Ruta N è quello di monitorare continuamente i propri SIR, di rilevare i punti deboli nei propri SIR e di trovare soluzioni per aggiornarli, mentre svolge il ruolo di “custode della conoscenza” impegnandosi nella “tropicalizzazione” delle conoscenze extra-regionali, al fine di supportare nuovi sviluppi del percorso industriale. Medellín sta evolvendo da città industriale a città maggiormente basata sulla conoscenza e sui servizi. Nel periodo di cambiamento strutturale nell’economia, le strutture socio-istituzionali e tecno-economiche risultano temporaneamente divise a causa dell’inerzia delle strutture sociali, organizzative e istituzionali, rispetto ai rapidi cambiamenti nella struttura tecno-economica. Il ritardo nella co-evoluzione tra le strutture socio-istituzionali e tecno-economiche genera inefficienze e instabilità nel SIR richiedendo interventi politici. Ruta N ha ideato programmi per accelerare la coevoluzione della struttura sociale, organizzativa e istituzionale, con la nuova struttura tecno-economica. Per concludere, questa tesi suggerisce un quadro per la progettazione di tali accordi istituzionali, in SIR specializzati e strutturalmente spessi che si trovano alla periferia della conoscenza, supportando lo sviluppo di nuovi percorsi industriali ed il processo di accelerazione tecnologica.

The entrepreneurial region: pah development and technological catch-up in regions on the knowledge periphery / Morisson, Arnault. - (2019 Apr 30).

The entrepreneurial region: pah development and technological catch-up in regions on the knowledge periphery

2019-04-30

Abstract

There is no “one-size-fits-all” regional innovation policy, as regional innovation systems (RIS) differ widely in terms of prior innovation capabilities, industrial base, and institutional contexts. Using Ruta N, a regional innovation agency in Medellín, Colombia, as a single, significant, critical, and high-impact case, this thesis investigates the strategies implemented by the municipally-owned intermediary organization to support new industrial path development. The thesis finds that there exists a “one-size-fits-many” regional innovation governance structure and institutional arrangement to upgrade RIS in a systematic manner. Ruta N has been created from the close institutional proximity between the public and private sectors to respond to specific innovation challenges in its RIS. The role of Ruta N is to continuously monitor its RIS, to find weaknesses in its RIS, and to find the solutions to upgrade its RIS while playing the role of a knowledge gatekeeper engaging in the “tropicalization” of extra-regional knowledge to support new industrial path development. Medellín’s economic structure is transitioning from industrial towards more knowledge-based and service-based activities. During a period of regional structural change in the economy, the socio-institutional and the techno-economic structures are temporarily decoupled due to the relative inertia of the social, organizational, and institutional structures compared to rapid changes in the technoeconomic structure. The lag in co-evolution between the socio-institutional and the techno-economic structures generates inefficiencies and instabilities in the RIS that requires policy interventions. Ruta N has devised programs to accelerate the coevolution of the social, organizational, and institutional structure with the novel techno-economic structure. Finally, this thesis recommends a framework for designing such institutional arrangements in specialized and organizationally thick RISs that are located on the knowledge periphery to support new industrial path development and the technological catch-up process.
30-apr-2019
Settore ICAR/21 - URBANISTICA
BEVILACQUA, Carmelina
FUSCHI, Paolo
Doctoral Thesis
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