Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics

Papers in Innovation Studies,
Lund University, CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research

No 2007/4: Learning from the Bangalore Experience: The Role of Universities in an Emerging Regional Innovation System

Jan Vang (), Cristina Chaminade () and Lars Coenen ()
Additional contact information
Jan Vang: CIRCLE, Lund University and Copenhagen Institute of Technology, Aalborg University
Cristina Chaminade: CIRCLE, Lund University, Postal: PO Box 117, Sölvegatan 16, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden
Lars Coenen: CIRCLE, Lund University, Postal: PO Box 117, Sölvegatan 16, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the role of universities and public research organizations initiating and sustaining the development of regional innovation systems in developing countries, focusing the discussion on the Bangalore software cluster. Innovation systems research has paid significant attention to the importance of universities and other publicly financed research institutions as engines of growth and innovative performance in regions. With noble exceptions these papers tend to ignore the specific context in which this interaction between the university and the industry takes place, that is, the specific competences and capabilities of the universities and the firms’ specific needs, particularly in developing countries. This papers aims at reducing this gap by making an empirically-based analysis of the role that universities can play in initiating, sustaining and deepening Bangalore’s regional innovation system for the IT-service and software industry embedding the discussion on the specificities of the strategies of the firms and the universities located in the cluster.

Keywords: university; regional system of innovation; software industry; developing countries; Bangalore

JEL-codes: O30

27 pages, June 1, 2007

Full text files 

200704_Jan_et_al.pdf PDF-file

Download statistics

Questions (including download problems) about the papers in this series should be directed to Torben Schubert ()
Report other problems with accessing this service to Sune Karlsson ().

RePEc:hhs:lucirc:2007_004This page generated on 2024-09-13 22:16:04.