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This chapter reports on advances in regional innovation practice. Regional innovation has become a maturing field of economic governance. Regions have become more prominent actors in the innovation field in the past decade. Innovation is widely seen by supranational, national and regional governance bodies and agencies as a mainspring of improved regional economic performance and wellbeing. Leading regional innovation practitioners are increasingly being understood as catalysts of innovation, a development in their earlier role as being supporter or partner in innovation essentially conducted by others. One technique this chapter devotes attention to where regional ‘orchestration’ of innovation occurs is the use of narrative, drama and non-scientific laboratory experimentation to open business and community minds to the constructed regional advantages of innovation. The theoretical context is ‘post-cluster’ hence platform-minded and using matrix models to induce innovation through stimulating cross-cluster ‘transversality’.
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In conversation, we agree that mine is a more institutional approach than the symbolic interactionism at the individual level these experts practice. Although their ‘Boalian’ perspective facilitates conflict analysis of a collective kind, it may not yet be capable of illuminating the ‘dark matter’ of power relations, which are ultimately more institutional, often gaining from wide social legitimacy, than individual.
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I developed these insights in the following contexts. Much of the first half of the chapter was stimulated by my engagement in the EU 6th Framework RTD project whose acronym was EURODITE and the VINNOVA policy evaluation exercise ‘The Matrix’ throughout 2009. The sponsors and colleagues are thanked. Case material came respectively from commissions to evaluate Tillväxtverket clusters in Sweden in early 2010; from the OECD evaluation mission to Marche region in late 2009; and in connection with our InterReg ReThe project in early 2010. All sponsors and respondents are thanked for their support.
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Cooke, P. (2012). The Increasing Use of Dramaturgy in Regional Innovation Practice. In: Melkas, H., Harmaakorpi, V. (eds) Practice-Based Innovation: Insights, Applications and Policy Implications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21723-4_15
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