Geography of Innovation: What Are Its Patterns and How Policies Shape Them

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

Delivered at:

Department of Educational Programmes

Course type:

Elective course

When:

1 year, 3 module

Instructor

Kutsenko, Evgeniy

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course examines the spatial aspects of science and innovation emergence, dissemination and decline. It focuses on factors which have a significant impact on the development of innovations at a city and regional levels. The course covers theoretical issues (e.g. regional innovation systems) and cases of practical implementation of innovation policies at regions around the world. Among various innovation policy measures it will be pointed out smart specialization, cluster policies, urban experimentation including revitalization via fostering creative industries in special locations. Besides lectures a home task is planned for which a student should select a region or a city for the further analysis during the whole course so the databases, instruments and policies described at lectures then applied by the students and presented at classes.

Learning Objectives

• Forging the key generation of knowledgeable, pro-innovation managers in private and public sectors, with a focus on regional level;
• Creating informed judgment for multi-level policy decisions to foster an innovative economy and finance, innovative ecosystems oriented toward investment in high technology;
• Setting standards for monitoring multi-level policies and their outcomes in support of innovation, science and technology, with a focus on regional level.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Setting standards for monitoring regional policies and their outcomes in support of innovation, science and technology
• -Forging this key generation of knowledgeable, pro-innovation regional officials;
• Creating informed judgment for policy decisions to foster an innovative economy and finance, on the regional level, innovative ecosystems oriented toward investment in high technology;

Course Contents

• Proximity, regional innovation system and smart specialization
• Evolution of regional specialisations. Related and unrelated diversification
• Urban innovations: how to measure and support
• Clusters and cluster policy
• Creative industries: spaces, regional specializa-tion, entrepreneurial activity

Assessment Elements

• 10-minute written comment to the previous lecture topic
• Home-prepared presentation
• Written test comprising of 10 multiple-choice questions

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 3rd module
  Final control (F): written exam (answers to 10 test questions within 60 minutes). Project (P): home-prepared presentation to be defended at class. Class assignment (Cl): 10-minute written comment to the previous lecture topic. A total of 2 as-signments have to be taken. The assignment grades are included in equal weights in the Cl grade which weights 0,2 of final grade (G). The overall course grade (10-point scale) is calculated as a sum of G = 0,4 F + 0,4 P + 0,2 Cl. The overall course grade G (10-point scale) includes results achieved by students in their exam (F), project (P), and class assignment (Cl); it is rounded up to an integer number of points.

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy, Dominique Foray, John Goddard, & Xabier Goenaga Beldarrain. (2012). Guide to Research and Innovation Strategies for smart specialisation (RIS 3). https://doi.org/10.2776/65746

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Engel Jerome S. Global Clusters of Innovation: Entrepreneurial Engines of Economic Growth around the World [Book]. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014.
• Meissner, D., Gokhberg, L. M., & Sokolov, A. (2013). Science, Technology and Innovation Policy for the Future : Potentials and Limits of Foresight Studies. Berlin: Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=586015
• On competition, Porter, M. E., 1998
• The Oxford handbook of innovation, , 2006

Authors

• Терегулова Адель Анваровна
• KUTSENKO Evgenii SERGEEVICH
• Зинченко Екатерина Андреевна