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In an era of intense globalization, the critical role of the region as a centre for economic development has sometimes been overlooked. Moreover, innovation is increasingly being recognized as being a critical driver of economic growth and development. However, innovation is no longer being seen as a function of research and development; nor is R&D being seen as being sufficient for the creation of technology-intensive industries and the valuable economic spillovers that result in high value-added jobs and exports. Indeed, much more than ever before, it is the combination of factors that contributes to innovation - ranging over skills, finance, production, user-producer linkages, the capacity of organizations to learn, and multilayered government policies - that make local regions the favorites of fortune. Using an evolutionary economic perspective, and drawing on a range of disciplines, this text explores important issues at a conceptual, methodological and comparative level concerning how successful locations actually construct their comparative advantage.

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Author:   John de la Mothe ,  Gilles Paquet
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1998 ed.
Volume:   14
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.500kg
ISBN:  

9780792382874

ISBN 10:   0792382870
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   30 September 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

A In Search of Conceptual Framework.- 1. Local and Regional Systems of Innovation as Learning Socio-Economies.- B Conceptual Perspectives.- 2. Calibrating the Learning Region.- 3. Regional Systems of Innovation and the Blurred Firm.- 4. Modeling Regional Innovation and Competitiveness.- C International and Interregional Perspectives.- 5. Knowledge-Based Industrial Clustering: International Comparisons.- 6. Contrasting U.S. Metropolitan Systems of Innovation.- 7. Contrasting Regional Innovation Systems in Oxford and Cambridge.- 8. Telecoms in New Jersey: Spatial Determinants of Sectoral Investments.- D Perspectives on Canada’s Local and Regional Systems of Innovation.- 9. Innovation in Enterprises in British Columbia.- 10. How Do Small Firms Innovate in British Columbia?.- 11. The Dynamics of Regional Innovation in Ontario.- 12. Canada’s Technology Triangle.- 13. The Chaudière-Appalaches System of Industrial Innovations.- 14. Saint John, NB. As an Emerging Local System of Innovation.- 15. Canadian Science Parks, Universities, and Regional Development.- E Quo Vadis?.- 16. Some Lessons and Challenges for Model Builders, Data Gatherers and Other Tribes.

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