Regions and trademarks: research opportunities and policy insights from leveraging trademarks in regional innovation studies

Carolina Castaldi; Sandro Mendonça

doi:10.1080/00343404.2021.2003767

Regions and trademarks: research opportunities and policy insights from leveraging trademarks in regional innovation studies

Carolina Castaldi
, Sandro Mendonça

Geography of Innovation

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Abstract

At the intersection of regional and innovation studies, trademark research is producing stylized facts, methodological lessons and policy insights underlining the importance of softer intangible assets for regional resilience and growth. Despite all the recent attention, there are still several opportunities that the present agenda-framing piece tries to canvas, identifying at least two directions for further research: the geography of innovation/entrepreneurship and regional specialization/diversification. Not only do these emerge from a dedicated special issue in Regional Studies (to which this paper also serves as an editorial), but they also unfold in emerging research and policy trajectories.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	177-189
Number of pages	13
Journal	Regional Studies
Volume	56
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2021.2003767
Publication status	Published - 4 Jan 2022

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Funding Information:
Carolina Castaldi kindly acknowledges support from the Membership grant of the Regional Studies Association (MeRSA). Sandro Mendonça gratefully acknowledges the support by the FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), Portugal, and the Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL) and UECE-REM (Research Unit on Complexity and Economics). This research also benefited from grants UID/GES/00315/2013, UIDB/00315/2020, UIDB/05069/2020, PTDC/EGE-ECO/30690/2017 and is part of the project PTDC/EGE-ECO/30690/2017. Both authors thank the overseeing editor, Dieter Kogler, and the whole editorial team at Regional Studies for the outstanding support in the process of putting together the special issue. They also kindly acknowledge all special issue contributors. Moreover, they warmly thank the many reviewers who helped to process the submissions and also offered anonymous comments on this paper. All the views and shortcomings remain the responsibility of the authors alone.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Regional Studies Association.

Keywords

diversification
geography
innovation
intangibles
mtrademarks
regions
specialization

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