Regional innovation support systems in South Korea and Germany compared

Abstract: Since the beginning of the 1990s, one can observe a clear shift in the aims of regional policy in industrialised countries from reducing regional inequalities to developing endogenous small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and innovation in regions through regional innovation support systems. Innovation support systems are defined as a group of actively co-operating organisations that support the innovativeness of SMEs. An innovation support system consists of all agencies found in three support stages, namely the provision of general information, technological advice and joint research and development (R&D) projects, between SMEs and higher education institutes (HEIs) and public research establishments (PREs). Agencies found in these stages try to help to solve innovation problems mainly of technology-following SMEs by either giving them advice themselves or by referring them to other agencies in a further stage of support. This paper aims at comparing these regional innovation.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/2524

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Regional innovation support systems in South Korea and Germany compared ; volume:58 ; number:2 ; year:2004 ; Erdkunde ; 58, Heft 2 (2004)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Hassink, Robert

Further information

• DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2004.02.04
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410281838500.416952730315
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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