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Hops, Skip and a Jump: The Regional Uniqueness of Beer Styles
2023-06-12, Hynes, Ryan M., Buarque, Bernardo S., Davies, Ronald B., Kogler, Dieter Franz
Perhaps more than any other product, beer evokes its place of origin. Part of what makes every pint of Guinness or stein of Paulaner so memorable is what sets them apart and gives them their unique "taste of place." This chapter explores the geographical differentiation of beer. To do so, we collect data on regional beer recipes, styles, and ingredients from a homebrewing website. We then employ Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG) methods and create weighted co-occurrence networks for the ingredients within each style. We use these networks to identify which ingredients are most important to each beer style, measure a style’s robustness, and compare differences between geographically close and distant styles. While previous literature focuses on the related diversification of regions, we use these methods to examine the differences within the same product and across many regional styles and flavours. Combining the EEG methods with this unique ingredients dataset, we show that almost all beer styles rely on only a handful of key ingredients. Yet some regional beers are more robust than others due to readily available substitute ingredients in their region. Likewise, we demonstrate that styles originating in close geographic proximity are more similar in their use of ingredients.
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The nonlinear effect of technological diversification on regional productivity: implications for growth and Smart Specialisation strategies
2023-04-17, Rocchetta, Silvia, Ortega-Argiles, Raquel, Kogler, Dieter Franz
With a sample of 268 EU regions and with the use of multilevel modelling, we demonstrate that different measures of technological diversification measured as coherence and entropyvariety, have different nonlinear effects on regional productivity growth and that these nonlinear effects work in opposite directions to each other. Our analysis shows that higher regional productivity returns can be found in regions investing both around their existing technological capabilities as well as in more distant knowledge domains. Our findings have significant implications for understanding regional productivity growth processes and the implementation of Smart Specialisation Strategies.
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Mind the Gap: Advancing Evolutionary Approaches to Regional Development with Progressive Empirical Strategies
2023-04-14, Kendron, Peter, Kogler, Dieter Franz, Rocchetta, Silvia
Explaining the persistently uneven spatial patterns of development remains a central goal of economic geography and regional science. Recognizing that regional development is a process of ongoing change, many scholars now approach the topic from an evolutionary perspective that identifies knowledge recombination processes and institutions as key drivers of change. However, research has not yet fully integrated the various theoretical perspectives and empirical data streams that characterize evolutionary approaches. The present contribution identifies how an evolutionary approach centered on knowledge and institutions can be integrated with complementary forms of evidence gathered from a variety of sources to advance our understanding of regional development. Expanding and integrating the evidence base used to study regional change has important implications for making effective and responsive policy instruments.
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Appendix to Hops, Skip and a Jump: The Regional Uniqueness of Beer Styles
2023, Hynes, Ryan M., Buarque, Bernardo S., Davies, Ronald B., Kogler, Dieter Franz
Appendix to the chapter 'Hops, Skip and a Jump: The Regional Uniqueness of Beer Styles' in Patterson, M., Hoalst-Pullen, N. (eds.). Geography of Beer: Policies, Propaganda and Place, including glossary, list of styles, malts and hops and a sample BeerXML file.
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Successful Economic Diversifications: Implications for Refining Smart Specialisation Strategies in Less Developed Regions
2019-07-01, Pylak, Korneliusz, Kogler, Dieter Franz
Related and unrelated diversification take ample space in scientific and political debates. Against the backdrop of refining smart specialisations strategies, this paper identifies diversification patterns towards the highest income growth in less developed areas in 1931–2000. It is argued that both related and unrelated (in longer-term) diversifications are fundamental for evolutionary growth of less developed regions, however, only the former process has been confirmed in the analyses. Both related variety of industries and expertise in 1931 also point to successful diversification. The implications for theories of Evolutionary Economic Geography and regional policy actions in less developed regions are discussed.
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New Collaborations and Novel Innovations: The Role of Regional Brokerage and Collaboration Intensity
2023-12-12, Keungoui, Kim, Kogler, Dieter Franz, Coda Zabetta, Massimiliano
In this paper we investigate the role of brokers in the regional innovation network and its influence on innovative and collaborative outcomes. For this purpose, we make use of data from the European Patent Office and Eurostat in the period 1986-2015. We first build the regional collaboration network based on co-inventorship ties, then we identify the brokerage roles played by each region, using the original taxonomy proposed by Gould and Fernandez (1989), to disentangle their impact on innovation and collaboration. Finally, we investigate regional collaboration intensity and how it interacts with brokerage roles, highlighting its mediating effect. Our findings indicate that brokerage roles contribute to the extension of collaboration networks, but also that they are not efficient for the creation of innovation. Collaboration intensity, on the other hand, enhances both innovation and collaborative outcomes, and shows how a region can benefit from being a broker.
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Patent Boxes and the Success Rate of Applications
2021-04-21, Davies, Ronald B., Hynes, Ryan M., Kogler, Dieter Franz
Patent boxes significantly reduce the corporate tax rate applied to income earned from a patent. This incentivizes firms to increase the likelihood of a patent application being granted by creating more novel research and using more successful legal representation when filing the application. Conversely, it supports submitting applications for marginally novel innovations that otherwise would not have been submitted, lowering the probability of success. We use data from applications to the European Patent Office from 1978 to 2019 and find that the introduction of a patent box increases the average success rate of applications from large, corporate innovators by 6.9 percentage points. This impact only materializes two years after a patent box takes effect, suggesting that improved research effort is the dominant response by firms. Therefore patent boxes may help to increase innovation novelty and improve the overall quality of research.
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New Cooperation and Novel Innovations: The Role of Regional Brokerage and Collaboration Intensity
2021-02-04, Kim, Keungoui, Kogler, Dieter Franz, Coda Zabetta, Massimiliano
Along with the increased importance of technology innovation, the importance of collaboration has been highlighted for conducting the innovation. This study discusses the importance of brokerage role of regions in co-inventor collaboration for establishing novel innovation and new collaboration. In addition, we address how regional collaboration intensity interacts with the brokerage role, highlighting its mediating effect. For this purpose, empirical analysis has been conducted with EPO PATSTAT database and European Regional Database (ERD) covering the European regions between 1986 and 2015. Our finding shows that the brokerage roles contribute to the extension of collaboration network, but are not efficient for the creation of new invention. Collaboration intensity, however, helps both novel innovation and new collaboration, and especially it positively interacts with brokerage role indicating that a region can take the benefit from being broker in collaboration.
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Geography and Branding in the Craft Beer Industry
2023-10-24, Hynes, Ryan M., Kogler, Dieter Franz
Place-based branding strategies are important marketing tools for both regions and firms and take advantage of consumers’ embrace of the local in response to globalization. Craft brewing is a particularly salient user of these strategies and provides ample data. We find a strong, positive link between the number of place-based labels and a brewery’s rating, suggesting consumers are receptive to place-based branding.
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The role of MNEs in the genesis and growth of a resilient entrepreneurial ecosystem
2021, Ryan, Paul, Giblin, Majella, Buciuni, Giulio, Kogler, Dieter Franz
This article reports on a longitudinal process study of the critical role of anchor MNEs in the metamorphosis of a high-tech industrial cluster into a local entrepreneurial ecosystem. It draws on entrepreneurial ecosystem and international business literatures to frame the study of the genesis and evolutionary processes of an entrepreneurial ecosystem that emerged from two MNE subsidiaries, both of which had evolved into advanced R&D centres of excellence around a technology specialism. It shows how multiple new venture spinouts by former MNE employees introduced technological heterogeneity that catalysed into a resilient entrepreneurial ecosystem. The theoretical and policy implications that can be drawn from this case study emphasize the existence of both technology specialism and heterogeneity for resilience in an entrepreneurial ecosystem, and that reaching such a position is evolutionary in nature.