- Title
- Leadership in regional innovation management: new theoretical and policy perspectives
- Creator
- Veldhuizen, Caroline; Kriz, Anton
- Relation
- 6th ISPIM Innovation Symposium. 6th ISPIM Innovation Symposium: Innovation in the Asian Century (Melbourne 8-11 December, 2013)
- Publisher
- International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- This contribution to the regional innovation systems and innovation management literature explores the importance of leadership. The central understanding is that innovation is a political and social process, rather than an economic tool to generate growth. Mixed methods and action research in the Central Coast Region of New South Wales, Australia are used to explore three key issues concerning regional leadership. These include the role of knowledge generating and mediating organisations, the impact of lock-in and path dependence upon regional governance and new perspectives and insights gained by conceptually integrating an RIS with other regional systems. Theoretical frameworks used in firm-based and multi-level innovation literature are melded with RIS and leadership concepts, within a complexity theory framework, to provide the basis of a more holistic RIS model. The findings clarify the role of leadership within regional innovation systems and integrate perspectives on this issue into the theoretical and policy discourse.
- Subject
- regional; innovation; system; leadership; complexity; emergence; growth; quality of life
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1341991
- Identifier
- uon:28863
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789522654236
- Language
- eng
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