Cross-border regional innovation systems: conceptual backgrounds, empirical evidence and policy implications

Teemu Makkonen, Stephan Rohde · 2016 · European Planning Studies

Summary. Cross-border regional innovation systems (CBRIS) have been developed as a theoretical framework for analyzing innovation across borders, but empirical research lags far behind. The authors identify a significant gap between conceptual advances and actual evidence, showing that policy recommendations rest on weak empirical foundations. They call for rigorous empirical validation of CBRIS theory and evaluation of how border-region policies based on this framework actually perform in practice.

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  title   = {Cross-border regional innovation systems: conceptual backgrounds, empirical evidence and policy implications},
  author  = {Teemu Makkonen and Stephan Rohde},
  journal = {European Planning Studies},
  year    = {2016},
  doi     = {10.1080/09654313.2016.1184626},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2016.1184626}
}

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DOI

10.1080/09654313.2016.1184626

Countries

Denmark, United Kingdom, Germany

Regions

Europe

Categories

regional-innovation-systems, policy, general-innovation

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2026-04-28