Anchor tenants and regional innovation systems: the aircraft industry

Authors: Niosi, Jorge¹; Zhegu, Majlinda²

Source: International Journal of Technology Management, Volume 50, Numbers 3-4, April 2010 , pp. 263-284(22)

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Abstract:

The concept of anchor tenant was advanced to explain the emergence of regional systems of innovation. The anchor tenant is an organisation, often a large innovative firm or a research university or public laboratory that produces knowledge externalities in the region where it is located. The anchor produces such effects by spinning off new companies and attracting other ones. This paper argues that the dynamics of the anchor may help to explain the subsequent evolution of the region. It also maintains that anchor tenants are attracted to or created in regions that possess some favourable conditions and that such conditions are industry specific.

Keywords: MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS; Policy and Organisational Management; Technology Management

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJTM.2010.032676

Affiliations: 1: Department of Management and Technology, UQAM, Montreal, P.O. Box 8888 Station Centre-Ville Montreal, QC, H3P 3P8, Canada. 2: Department of Management and Technology, UQAM, Montreal, P.O. Box 8888 Station Centre-Ville Montreal, QC, H3P 3P8, Canada

Publication date: 2010-04-01

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