We asked some questions about the spatial scales of their firms’ networks from the executives in city of Vantaa, Finland. Cooperation between different innovation actors from the Triple (or Quadruple) Helix concept is evident in some extend. For knowledge intensive firms, cooperation with regional and national governance is the most important (22% of the respondents saw important or very important). For other firms, cooperation with governance of the city of Vantaa is most important (18%).
Instead, cooperation with other firms is more evident. Regional innovation system consists of Helsinki Metropolitan Area (76 %), but much less the larger entity of Greater Helsinki (24%). In fact, national innovation system is more evident (44%) than larger regional innovation system. Networks extend also abroad (24%) like in RIS literature is concluded. Empiricism from the Helsinki Metropolitan Area shows that concept of regional innovation system holds true in the HMA. Innovation system extends also to national and global scales. Also concept of Triple Helix can be applied into metropolitan areas. Considering networks are stronger between firms than with other innovation actors, the concept of cluster fits better in the HMA in that respect.
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AuthorJuho Kiuru, geographer living in Helsinki, Finland. |