Journal
REGIONAL STUDIES
Volume 53, Issue 3, Pages 376-387Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2018.1510178
Keywords
territorial servitization; knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS); product companies; collaborative partnerships; Germany; case studies
Funding
- German Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) [02K14A140]
- China Scholarship Council [CSC 201707095003]
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Regional science research is silent on how collaborative partnerships between knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and product companies emerge. The paper addresses this theoretical gap by examining the role played by KIBS firms and by their interactions with product companies. It proposes a typology of territorial servitization - namely knowledge gap, regulation gap and capacity gap - wherein KIBS firms respectively play the pivotal roles of knowledge brokers, intermediators and integrators in driving collaborative partnerships. By conducting qualitative case studies, this paper explores the mechanisms by which product companies located in a high-tech multi-industry cluster in Bremen, Germany, collaborate with KIBS firms in fostering regional competitiveness.
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