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Knowledge Networks and Their Impact on New and Small Firms in Local Economies: The Case Studies of the Autonomous Province of Trento and Magdeburg

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  • Alessandra Proto

    (OECD)

  • Simone Tani

    (Municipality of Florence)

  • Joerg Bühnemann

    (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg)

  • Olaf Gaus

    (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg)

  • Mathias Raith

    (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg)

Abstract
New and small firms can be important engines of job creation and local development when they identify and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities. We live in an economy more and more characterised by open innovation methods, where new companies and SMEs are benefitting from innovations, technological and non technological available on the market or from other companies and organisations part of their networks. Knowledge networks, understood as a three-component construction of (i) knowledge generation, (ii) knowledge transfer, and (iii) knowledge application, can play a crucial role in boosting companies performance. As many OECD researches shows, there is often a major networking gap, however, between knowledge sources in universities and research organisations and industry exploitation in new spin-off enterprises and SMEs. The analysis of the actors of the knowledge networks and the way they behave and interact with other component inside and outside the networks is a fundamental support to local policy making in entrepreneurship and innovation. The OECD LEED Programme in cooperation with the University of Trento has prepared this paper to analyse in deep the behaviour of knowledge networks in two specific local contexts: the Autonomous Province of Trento in Italy and the Magdeburg Province in Germany. The aim of this research project is to analyse the relevance of knowledge networks to entrepreneurship and the growth of young and small firms, the role of the different components and their interplay for network effectiveness, impeding and favouring factors, and the role of public policy.

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  • Alessandra Proto & Simone Tani & Joerg Bühnemann & Olaf Gaus & Mathias Raith, 2012. "Knowledge Networks and Their Impact on New and Small Firms in Local Economies: The Case Studies of the Autonomous Province of Trento and Magdeburg," OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Papers 2012/2, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:cfeaaa:2012/2-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5k9gs1cr080x-en
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    1. Jörg Bühnemann, 2012. "Lissabon 2010 - Eine F&E-orientierte Konzeption neuer Förderregionen," FEMM Working Papers 120008, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Faculty of Economics and Management.
    2. Jörg Bühnemann & Bernd Neutschel, 2014. "Universitäre Transferstruktur im Wandel - OvGU als regionaler Impulsgeber," FEMM Working Papers 140001, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Faculty of Economics and Management.
    3. repec:mag:wpaper:130014 is not listed on IDEAS
    4. Jörg Bühnemann, 2013. "Transparenz von Clustern - nötig und unmöglich?," FEMM Working Papers 130015, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Faculty of Economics and Management.

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