| Title |
Validation of Sustainable Competitive Advantage (SCA) Method in Smart Specialization Project for Regional Innovation: Taking Ostrobothnia Region of Finland as an Exanple |
| ID_Doc |
73412 |
| Authors |
Takala, J; Tilabi, S; Shylina, D |
| Title |
Validation of Sustainable Competitive Advantage (SCA) Method in Smart Specialization Project for Regional Innovation: Taking Ostrobothnia Region of Finland as an Exanple |
| Year |
2014 |
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| DOI |
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| Abstract |
Nowadays the cooperation between firms and academic sector is crucial for any industry to compete in turbulent environments of business world. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate gap analysis among academic, public and business sectors by SCA method in Ostrobothnia region of Finland. This research applies SCA method in Smart specialization project for the first time and helps firms to estimate their cooperation with other firms, public and academic sector. In fact, this research shows in wich part the connection is not strong. Companies can apply the results of this research to determine their weakness point to have better improvements plan in order to compete in today's business world. The paper is based on 15 case studies from Ostrobothnia region. The cases were selected from manufacturing industry including cases focusing on manufacturing product dividing on energy, boat and fur industries in three main sectors (academic, public and business sector) in Ostrobothnia region of Finland. The results of paper show that there is cooperation between company and other companies (business - business sector) highly in deferent level consist of regional, national and international level but the cooperation between academic sector and public sector with business sector is in question and needs to be centered of attention in improvements plan. Another main finding is related to SCA risk level which improved mainly from past condition to future situation meaning that company internal resource allocation supports more cooperation for future among these three sectors. |
| Author Keywords |
Smart specialization; Sense and Response methodology; SCA model; Risk level; Ostrobothnia region of Finland |
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| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH) |
| EID |
WOS:000360951700037 |
| WoS Category |
Business; Business, Finance; Management |
| Research Area |
Business & Economics |
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