Local and Regional Systems of Innovation

342 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In an era of intense globalization, the critical role of the region as a center 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 and accomplished scholars,
Local and Regional Systems of

Innovation
explores important issues at a conceptual, methodological and comparative level concerning how successful locations actually construct their comparative advantage.

• Reihe: Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation
• ISBN: 9780792382874
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.09.1998
• Genre: Wirtschaft/Volkswirtschaft
• Verlag: Springer US
• Herausgegeben von: John de la Mothe, Gilles Paquet