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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Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography
2024-02-01
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-ecb43bedf0ae4164ac9af7ebe08495632025-08-20T02:13:15ZengSociété Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of GeographyBelgeo1377-23682294-91352024-02-01410.4000/belgeo.65872As a Chinese researcher in Belgium: Path dependence or path-breaking?Fan XiaoExtra-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.https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/65872innovationpath dependencepath-breakingutilitarianismdecolonial turn |
| spellingShingle | Fan Xiao As a Chinese researcher in Belgium: Path dependence or path-breaking? Belgeo innovation path dependence path-breaking utilitarianism decolonial turn |
| title | As a Chinese researcher in Belgium: Path dependence or path-breaking? |
| title_full | As a Chinese researcher in Belgium: Path dependence or path-breaking? |
| title_fullStr | As a Chinese researcher in Belgium: Path dependence or path-breaking? |
| title_full_unstemmed | As a Chinese researcher in Belgium: Path dependence or path-breaking? |
| title_short | As a Chinese researcher in Belgium: Path dependence or path-breaking? |
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| topic | innovation path dependence path-breaking utilitarianism decolonial turn |
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