Abstract

GALLEGO-BONO, Juan R.. BREAKUP OF INNOVATION NETWORKS AND THE DYNAMICS OF TERRITORIAL PRODUCTION AND INNOVATION SYSTEMS IN TRADITIONAL SECTORS. Innovar [online]. 2016, vol.26, n.62, pp.23-40. ISSN 0121-5051.  https://doi.org/10.15446/innovar.v26n62.59386.

For competing in a globalized world, regional production systems in traditional sectors must turn into real territorial production and innovation systems. This implies weaving more complex innovation networks between heterogeneous actors (companies, universities, technological centers, etc.), generating a political tension of integration/fragmentation of such networks. In order to test this hypothesis the evolutionary and the actor-network theories are combined within the proximity perspective. The process of building wider networks of innovation requires the development of new communities of practice. This process can generate a fragmentation dynamics through the establishment of stable and selective relationships between different sets of actors, favoring coalitions between communities of practice and organized groups. Though, the relationship between communities of practice and organized groups creates possibilities for cooperation promoting an integrative dynamic through the recruitment of new players and skills. The relevance of this framework is evidenced by a longitudinal study of the territorial sectors of citrus and ceramic in Valencia (Spain). When innovation networks depict certain sense of breakup in the first scenario, integration predominates for the second. However, the greatest research variety of the first sector contrasts with the lock-in risks in the second, set in a unique but increasingly complex technological path.

Clasificación JEL: B52, 033, 038.

Keywords : Breakup; Territorial Production and Innovation Systems; learning; innovation networks; Comunitat Valenciana.

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