As a Chinese researcher in Belgium: Path dependence or path-breaking?
Extra-regional linkages contribute to innovation. However, detailed thoughts of innovators are missing in the literature. A question arises: how does a newly established extra-regional linkage affect knowledge production? To address this question, as a Chinese researcher in Belgium, I use my own sur...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography
2024-02-01
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| Series: | Belgeo |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/65872 |
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| Summary: | Extra-regional linkages contribute to innovation. However, detailed thoughts of innovators are missing in the literature. A question arises: how does a newly established extra-regional linkage affect knowledge production? To address this question, as a Chinese researcher in Belgium, I use my own surrounding experience to explore the drivers of innovation types in this essay. The findings show that: to some extent, utilitarianism and neoliberalism contribute to path dependence of knowledge production, while weak local embeddedness in the two countries of ours leads to path-breaking. Then, I show my concerns that path dependence might lead to (re-)colonial turn of knowledge production worldwide. Hopefully, this essay can broaden our understanding of the microscopic innovation process. |
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| ISSN: | 1377-2368 2294-9135 |