Abstract
AbstractThis paper introduces an analytical framework for understanding how specialized and diversified regional innovation system (RIS) differ in the way an entrepreneurial discovery process (EDP) is likely to unfold. To analytically explore the proposed framework, we deploy a sequential explanatory design approach, using quantitative data to analyze the regional industry structure of the city regions of Bergen and Stavanger in Western Norway, followed by a qualitative analysis of interviews with key stakeholders in both regions. We find that the city regions face unique challenges that align with an understanding of their respective RIS categorization, providing evidence that the framework proposed serves as a useful guide in understanding the development of an EDP.
Highlights
According to Foray (2015, pp. 23–2 4), regional industry development starts with an entrepreneurial discovery
The research was motivated by the twin aims of answering whether: (i) the development of an entrepreneurial discovery process (EDP) is likely to differ between regions, characterized by a specialized and regionalized national regional innovation system (RIS) versus a diversified and regionally networked RIS and (ii) the narratives surrounding entrepreneurial discovery and regional development strategies differ between stakeholders in these specialized and diversified RISs
We combine this quantitative data with interviews with key stakeholders based on an analytical framework for incorporating how differing RISs interact with EDP targeted at regional industrial development
Summary
According to Foray (2015, pp. 23–2 4), regional industry development starts with an entrepreneurial discovery. It led to a situation whereby the region was primarily focused on the extraction of oil and gas from the North Sea, and much of the regional industrial structure coalesced around this industry, and a process of specialization developed (see Figure 4) For this reason, Stavanger provides a useful example of a specialized RIS in operation and given its national character with regard to policy support and knowledge infrastructure and self-p ropelling growth, a clear rationale for the creation of formally organized regional-oriented clusters did not exist, as we can see in the case of Bergen and as such the creation and management of clusters is less so a feature in Stavanger as in Bergen. It is here which we provide a richer insight into how EDPs are likely to interact differently with different RISs as expressed through the cases selected
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