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How can regions use tacit knowledge for innovations? The regional know-how in the stakeholder networks and in consortia for innovative clusters is discussed based on sustainable innovations for the tourism mobility: transport means, arrangements and communication technologies. The stakeholder networks generated 73 sustainable innovations; out of these, 38 (52 %) were successful measured by 10-year activity after the start. Social organisations and small firms are successful innovators albeit the scale of operations is small. The network policy is cost-effective and affordable in all regions. The consortium development followed the EU policy on innovative clusters. This has generated 15 consortia with 65 small- and medium-size enterprises and many experts. Out of these, 6 consortia were arranged and 2 were acting after 10 years. The success rate of inventors has dropped, and this policy is more costly, but the operations are larger than in network policy, and the successful consortia covered costs of this policy. Sustainable innovtions for the regional development are generated when local tacit know-how is fostered. Scouting inventors, developing skills and support of the knowledge spillovers are promising tools for the regional economic development.
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Granted project ideas for sustainable innovations in tourism during 2001–2003; those in bold are still active. The non-governmental organisations are indicated as ‘NGO’ in the table below.
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Krozer, Y. (2016). Tacit Inventors in Regions. In: Theory and Practices on Innovating for Sustainable Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18636-8_5
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