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Published: 8th April 2004
ISBN: 9780415303682
Number Of Pages: 464
The first edition of Regional Innovation Systems introduced a newly developed theoretical and empirical construct as a means of planning and analysing industrial development on a regional scale. Since 1995, when the first edition was commissioned, there has been a worldwide innovation-led boom and subsequent slump, meaning enormous change has occurred in regional economies. The new edition registers this change and provides an interesting test of the robustness of the original arguments in the book. Not least, more industrial policy making is influenced by the RIS analysis, and many national and regional governments have adopted RIS approaches, along with related instruments like promotion of industry clusters, academic entrepreneurship, regional venture capital and science-led development strategies. Set within a broadly evolutionary economics perspective, accounts are given of the system interactions occurring between firms and the innovation support infrastructure. Cases are drawn worldwide from Asia, North America and Europe and include a new case study on Slovenia.
| List of contributors | p. vii |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| List of abbreviations | p. xvi |
| Introduction: Regional innovation systems--an evolutionary approach | p. 1 |
| Informal and Market-driven Co-ordination: Grassroots Between Local and Global Reach | p. 19 |
| The remarkable resilience of the industrial districts of Tuscany | p. 21 |
| South-East Brabant: a regional innovation system in transition | p. 44 |
| The changing institutional structure and performance of the Catalan innovation system | p. 63 |
| Ontario's regional innovation system: the evolution of knowledge-based institutional assets | p. 91 |
| Network-like Governances: Driving Forces, Modes of Cohesion and Means of Regional Polity | p. 125 |
| Escaping path dependency: the case of Tampere, Finland | p. 127 |
| Learning in the village economy of Denmark: the role of institutions and policy in sustaining competitiveness | p. 154 |
| The Baden-Wurttemberg production and innovation regime: past successes and new challenges | p. 186 |
| The regional innovation system in Wales: evolution or eclipse? | p. 214 |
| Industrial clusters and the governance of change: lessons from North Rhine-Westphalia | p. 234 |
| The Leviathan Approach: Steering Innovation and Growth in Interregional Contexts by the State | p. 259 |
| Regional innovation systems in the less-favoured region of Japan: the case of Tohoku | p. 261 |
| Innovative milieu and co-operation networks: state initiatives and partnership for restructuring in Singapore | p. 291 |
| Regional innovation support systems in South Korea: the case of Gyeonggi | p. 327 |
| Slovenia: a fragmented innovation system? | p. 344 |
| Conclusion: the dilemmas of regional innovation systems | p. 363 |
| Appendix | p. 390 |
| Bibliography | p. 395 |
| Index | p. 434 |
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ISBN: 9780415303682
ISBN-10: 0415303680
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 464
Published: 8th April 2004
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 15.88
x 3.18
Weight (kg): 0.82
Edition Number: 2
Edition Type: New edition
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