Entrepreneurial origin and the configuration of innovation in rural areas: The case of Cumbria, North West England

Kalantaridis, Christos and Bika, Zografia (2011) Entrepreneurial origin and the configuration of innovation in rural areas: The case of Cumbria, North West England. Environment and Planning A, 43 (4). pp. 866-884.

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Abstract

This paper examines the incidence of innovation and the configuration of innovation systems in rural areas, which are viewed as possessing weak knowledge-generating subsystems. Drawing on the results of a microlevel study in rural Cumbria, North West England, the paper shows that entrepreneurs were able to access nonlocal knowledge infrastructure. Thus, the emergent actor-constructed regional innovation system stretched well beyond the confines of Cumbria. This configuration can be explained, in large part, by considering entrepreneurial origin. New arrivals (especially immigrants) demonstrated the greatest propensity to innovate, using innovation systems which cut across the regional and national boundaries. Locally born and returnee entrepreneurs demonstrated a low incidence of innovation. The paper concludes that a distinction between regional innovation systems (as macrolevel analytical units with a normative dimension) and actor-constructed regional innovation systems (as microlevel descriptive units) offers scope for the advancement of research in this field of study.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	entrepreneur,innovation,knowledge,rural area,cumbria,england,united kingdom
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Strategy and Entrepreneurship Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Marketing Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Migration Research Network
Depositing User:	Elle Green
Date Deposited:	24 Aug 2011 08:22
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2025 02:45
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/34607
DOI:	10.1068/a43341

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