Trans-spatial governance of peripheral innovations

1. Trans-spatiality
Teodor Kalpakchiev
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2. Institutionalization of
post-growth epistemics
Low Organizational Density and
Institutional thinness
• Hybrid polity (Lenschow et al, 2015) connectivity
• Reflexivity (Feindt & Weiland, 2018) and feedback
loops on externalities as engine
• Autopoiesis (Teubner, 2011) and parallelism
• Enabling environment, co-design, responsiveness
(Cebotari, 2019)
• layered, modular policy change
• Excessive proximity can reduce renewal, produce
closed mindset, sensitive balance to counteract
possible lock-ins (Aswegen&Retief, 2020)
• IPR and tech ownership: integrated vs. peripheral,
adaptation to local conditions (Nordesvard, 2018)
• New entrants incubating niches, simultaneous
pressures versus incumbents (Matschoss &
Heiskanen, 2018)
Knowledge and Innovation
Modalities
• Transfer (Fernández-Esquinas et al., 2015):
1) Analytical, synthetic and symbolic tacit
knowledge reproduction, 2) Codified vs.
recombining/synthesis mode of transfer, 3)
Absorptive capacity – exploration or/and
exploitation
• FDI linked inflow inefficiencies, import substitution,
transparency, education (Osabutey, 2016)
• Focus on value capture (also in terms of
relationships), not only strategy, but also task
innovation; tangible outcomes, long-term
adjustment to company values (Shaikh, 2019)
• Decouple individual embeddedness (manager,
personal relations, adverse selection), move to
extra-local specialized networks to compensate
proximity (Galliano, 2019)
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3. Integrative approach
• Multi-level epistemic discourse creation
• Micro
• Distributed learning through elements,
extracting tacit knowledge, strategic alliances
and open cooperation, ICT tools
• Meso
• Research facilities and universities, public
sector at local level, infrastructure, enabling
environment, cross-sector intelli
• Macro
• Extralocal connectivity – hybrid, parallelism,
cross-border, concentric, correspondence
• Interregional, trans-local and multilateral
dimensions
• UNCTAD, EU-regionalism, trade negotiations,
platforms
• Circular Economy Missions (clusterization)
• City Twinning
• Horizontal
• Discourse through governance and inclusion
• Deliberate: e.g. regenerative economy
Meaning:
• Red – Feedback?
• Blue – trans-local
• Green –
inter/intra-firm
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Liquid Governance

4. Literature
• Aswegen&Retief, 2020, The role of innovation and knowledge networks as a policy mechanism towards more resilient peripheral regions
• Lenschow et al., 2015, Globalization’s limit to the environmental state? Integrating telecoupling into global environmental governance
• Fernández-Esquinas et al., 2015: Tracing the flows of knowledge transfer: Latent dimensions and determinants of university–industry interactions in peripheral innovation
systems
• Gunther Teubner, 2011, Autopoietic Law – A new approach to law and society
• Cebotari, 2019, Against All Odds: Community-owned Renewable Energy Projects in North-West Romania
• Graffenberger & Vonnahme, 2019, Questioning the ‘periphery label’ in economic geography: Entrepreneurial Action and Innovation in South Estonia
• Nordesvard 2018, Innovation core, innovation semi-periphery and technology transfer: The case of wind energy patents
• Osabutey, 2016, Factors influencing technology and knowledge transfer: Configurational recipes for Sub-Saharan Africa
• Shaikh, 2019, Selecting an open innovation community as an alliance partner: Looking for healthy communities and ecosystems
• Galliano, 2019, The peripheral systems of eco-innovation: Evidence from eco-innovative agro-food projects in a French rural area
• Peter H. Feindt & Sabine Weiland, 2018, Reflexive governance: exploring the concept and assessing its critical potential for sustainable development
• Kaisa Matschoss & Eva Heiskanen, 2018, Innovation intermediary challenging the energy incumbent: enactment of local socio-technical transition pathways by destabilisation of
regime rules
• Graffenberger, Vonnahme, 2019, Questioning the ‘periphery label’ in economic geography: Entrepreneurial Action and Innovation in South Estonia
• Lang, 2016, Urban decline, resilience and change: Understanding how cities and regions adapt to socio-economic crises
• Vonnahme & Lang, 2017, Rethinking Territorial Innovation: World Market Leaders outside of Agglomerations
• Willet, 2019, The Periphery as a Complex Adaptive Assemblage: Local government and enhanced communication to challenge peripheralising narratives
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