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This paper provides a critical review of the literature on territorial innovation models (industrial districts, milieux innovateurs, new industrial spaces, local production systems, etc.). The review is organized in two stages. First, the main features of each of these models and their view of innovation are compared. Second, their theoretical building blocks are reconstructed and evaluated from the point of view of conceptual clarity and analytical coherence. It is found that despite some semantic unity among the concepts used (economies of agglomeration, endogenous development, systems of innovation, evolution and learning, network organization and governance), territorial innovation models (TIMs) suffer from conceptual ambiguity. The latter is mainly a consequence of the way territorial innovation is theorized, i.e. in terms of technologically driven innovation and a business culture that is mainly instrumental to the capitalist market logic. This pressing ideological priority pushes the 'conceptual flexibility' of TIMs across the border of coherent theory building.
Author(s): Moulaert F, Sekia F
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Regional Studies
Year: 2003
Volume: 37
Issue: 3
Pages: 289-302
ISSN (print): 0034-3404
ISSN (electronic): 1360-0591
Publisher: Routledge
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0034340032000065442
DOI: 10.1080/0034340032000065442
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