TY - JOUR
T1 - What triggers innovation diffusion? Intermediary organizations and geography in cultural and science-based industries
AU - Rekers, Josephine V.
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - This paper argues that innovation diffusion is not a rational implementation process, but more accurately portrayed as a highly social process, involving sets of intermediate organizations that contribute to a product’s reputation. Empirically it builds on two case studies, one cultural and one science-based, to demonstrate there are industry differences in where innovations get validated: validating intermediaries are centralized in few global nodes in the case of theatre, and decentralized in each marketplace in the case of pharmaceutical vaccines. This pattern is counterintuitive, because it is different from what we would expect based on the spatial organization of their production activities. These findings have implications for policy: can we assume innovations will readily diffuse (and export) outside their region of origin?
AB - This paper argues that innovation diffusion is not a rational implementation process, but more accurately portrayed as a highly social process, involving sets of intermediate organizations that contribute to a product’s reputation. Empirically it builds on two case studies, one cultural and one science-based, to demonstrate there are industry differences in where innovations get validated: validating intermediaries are centralized in few global nodes in the case of theatre, and decentralized in each marketplace in the case of pharmaceutical vaccines. This pattern is counterintuitive, because it is different from what we would expect based on the spatial organization of their production activities. These findings have implications for policy: can we assume innovations will readily diffuse (and export) outside their region of origin?
KW - cultural industries
KW - Diffusion
KW - innovation policy
KW - knowledge-based economy
KW - science
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84987808220&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0263774X15625226
DO - 10.1177/0263774X15625226
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84987808220
VL - 34
SP - 1058
EP - 1075
JO - Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy
JF - Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy
SN - 1472-3425
IS - 6
ER -