Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/111870 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers on Innovation and Space No. 01.11
Publisher: 
Philipps-University Marburg, Department of Geography, Marburg
Abstract: 
The paper focuses on the territorial shaping of knowledge dynamics as one of the driving forces for innovation. Knowledge dynamics are unfolding from processes of creation, use, transformation and diffusion of knowledge. Due to both the ongoing restructuring of global value chains and the changes in the organization of innovation '€˜combinatorial knowledge dynamics'€™ gain a more prominent role in innovation. Firms are facing an increasing need to combine heterogeneous knowledge sources spread over organizational, technological, sectoral and spatial boundaries in innovation processes. Combinatorial knowledge dynamics imply to cope with many different cognitive, technological, intra- and inter-organizational and institutional interfaces. Deeper empirical investigation in the connected organizational and institutional change linked with knowledge dynamics is still missing, but is indeed necessary to better understand the spatio-temporality of knowledge dynamics behind innovation. Addressing the connection of space as a scope of action and space as being generated as a part of the social process, the paper chose a biographical method to explore knowledge dynamics.
Subjects: 
Innovation
territorial knowledge dynamics
automotive industry
Baden-Württemberg
JEL: 
D83
L62
O32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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