Name and affiliations of the session organisers
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Jose Hervas-Oliver (Universitat Politècnica de València)
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Rolf Sternberg (Leibniz University Hannover)
SPECIAL SESSIONS
SS12: The Doing, Using and Interacting (DUI) mode of innovation in European firms and regions
Description
The session’s theme addresses the STI/DUI framework developed by Jensen et al. (2007) in its application to firm innovation in national, regional and local innovation systems. While it is widely accepted that R&D-driven STI innovations do not fully capture the innovation in the vast majority of firms (and the SMEs in particular), most of the governments’ innovation policies are stilled biased towards an STI-like understanding of innovation processes and innovative products.
This is also true for the measurement of innovations by researchers who quite often – due to significantly improved data access – simply use patent data and indicators although the latter refers to R&D based innovations only (if at all: most patents never end up in new innovations in the sense of new products!). Among SMEs, representing the large majority of all enterprises, non-R&D based innovations in the sense of the DUI mode of innovation are much more frequent than STI innovations.
Consequently, our session welcomes contributions that address this research gap in terms of conceptual and/or empirical research on DUI innovations, perceived from a spatial perspective. The main objectives are:
- Developing the DUI specific configuration of innovation, both from a theoretical and empirical perspective, but interpreted using a spatial lens
- Showing new methods to explore and new interpretations to explain the STI/DUI framework
- Pointing out under-researched topics and questions within the STI/DUI literature
- Discussing the (regional) policy potential of the framework
- Connecting and cross-fertilizing STI//DUI to other related streams of literature (open innovation, SMEs, non-R&D performers, etc.).
We therefore invite contributions to the following topics (among others):
- The firm- and region-based combination of STI & DUI mode of innovation
- Theoretical advances of the DUI mode
- New methods to measure DUI innovations on firm and regional level
- Causes and effects of DUI innovations at the regional and national level
- Comparative empirical studies for different national or subnational territories
- Specific effects of DUI innovations for specific region types (e.g., urban areas, rural regions, lagging regions and others
- Regional innovation policies (and others) explicitly addressing DUI innovations
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