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The role of social capital in regional innovation systems: Creative social capital and its institutionalization process
Author(s) -
Aragón Amonarriz Cristina,
Iturrioz Cristina,
Narvaiza Lorea,
Parrilli Mario Davide
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/pirs.12329
Subject(s) - institutionalisation , social capital , bridging (networking) , context (archaeology) , capital (architecture) , process (computing) , perspective (graphical) , economic system , business , economic geography , economics , political science , sociology , geography , social science , archaeology , law , computer network , artificial intelligence , computer science , operating system
In the literature on regional innovation systems, one strand of study has identified a number of gaps that limit the efficiency and effectiveness of regional innovation systems, including so‐called ‘managerial gaps’, ‘structural holes’, ‘innovation gaps’, and ‘valleys of death’. Our project aims to demonstrate how social capital, in a creative tension that balances bonding and bridging elements, may contribute to reducing these specific gaps identified in the regional innovation systems literature. This perspective is analysed within a particular context: the Mondragon Cooperative Group in the Basque Country.