Advanced Introduction to Regional Innovation Systems

Advanced Introduction to Regional Innovation Systems
Author: Bjørn T. Asheim
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2019
Genre: Business innovation
ISBN: 178536197X

Over the past 25 years, the regional innovation system (RIS) approach has become a powerful framework for explaining the uneven geographical distribution of innovation in space as well as for developing policies geared towards boosting the innovation capability of regional economies. This Advanced Introduction provides a critical review and discussion of research on RIS to answer a set of core questions covering the origins of the concept and its theoretical underpinnings to the challenges for future scholarly work on RIS.

Advanced Introduction to Social Innovation

Advanced Introduction to Social Innovation
Author: Frank Moulaert
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2019
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1785360388

Social innovation (SI) has, in the last decade or so, become an important idea and concept in policy, practice and scholarship surrounding human development. It is often seen as an antidote to narrowly defined technological and market-oriented modes of innovation. Its historical significance and development, tied to centuries of struggles for social change, remain under-appreciated and unacknowledged. This Advanced Introduction explores the historical and contemporary meanings of social innovation and its relationship with political and social movements. It develops an understanding of SI as a form of ethical practice for meeting needs, transforming social relations, and collectively empowering communities to shape the future. Additionally, it proposes that ethical research should aim to be socially innovative in this sense and provides concrete suggestions of how this concern can be embodied in action-research and community development methodologies.

Handbook of Regional Innovation and Growth

Handbook of Regional Innovation and Growth
Author: Philip Cooke
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 649
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0857931504

Today, economic growth is widely understood to be conditioned by productivity increases which are, in turn, profoundly affected by innovation. This volume explores these key relationships between innovation and growth, bringing together experts from both fields to compile a unique Handbook. The Handbook considers innovation from fresh perspectives, encompassing topics such as services innovation, inward investment and innovation, creative industry innovation and green innovation. It is divided into seven sections, dealing with regional innovation and growth theory, dynamics, evolution, agglomeration, innovation 'worlds', innovation system institutions, and innovation governance and policy. This definitive compendium on regional innovation and growth will undoubtedly appeal to teachers, students, researchers and practitioners of innovation and growth dynamics worldwide.

Regions and Innovation Policies in Europe

Regions and Innovation Policies in Europe
Author: Manuel González-López
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2020-04-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789904161

Offering a novel contribution within the growing field of regional innovation policies, this book combines recent theoretical developments and empirical contributions, with a particular focus on non-core regions. Leading academics in the field discuss the topics of regional path transformation, place-based strategies and policy learning. Also included are sections on the role of EU institutions on the promotion of regional innovation and the analysis and comparison of the innovation policies experiences of four non-core European regions.

Advanced Introduction to Regional and Urban Economics

Advanced Introduction to Regional and Urban Economics
Author: Roberta Capello
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2023-12-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1035318989

Expertly crafted and interdisciplinary in scope, Roberta Capello’s Advanced Introduction navigates the extensive discipline of regional and urban economics. Adopting a diachronic perspective, Capello explores the evolution of various theoretical approaches and novelties, covering theories of location, regional growth, and local development, whilst explaining the many ways in which space influences economic activity.

Advanced Introduction to National Innovation Systems

Advanced Introduction to National Innovation Systems
Author: Cristina Chaminade
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2018
Genre: Economic development
ISBN: 178536202X

Since its emergence in the 1980s the national innovation system (NIS) concept has become widely used by scholars and policymakers alike. In the course of its rapid diffusion it has provoked controversy on fundamental issues. Where did NIS emerge? What is the theoretical core of the concept? Is it actually a scientific concept or simply a buzz-word? How useful is it in terms of low income countries? How does the national innovation system relate to economic, social and environmental sustainable development? Is it meaningful to study national systems in a globalizing economy? What are the legitimate policy implications? This book provides an in depth analysis of all these questions as well as recommending future avenues of research.

Advanced Introduction to Global Production Networks

Advanced Introduction to Global Production Networks
Author: Neil M. Coe
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2021-01-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1788979605

Written by Neil M. Coe, this Advanced Introduction provides a comprehensive guide to the vibrant and expanding global production network (GPN) approach, through deftly exploring its antecedents, theoretical underpinnings, and debates and controversies in the field. The author argues overall that, during a time of profound on-going challenges within the global economic system, the need for a GPN framework has never been more pressing.

Advanced Introduction to New Institutional Economics

Advanced Introduction to New Institutional Economics
Author: Ménard, Claude
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2022-01-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1789904498

New institutional economics (NIE) is a powerful tool for understanding real world phenomena. This Advanced Introduction explores NIE’s answers to fundamental questions about the organization, growth and development of economies, such as why are some countries rich and others poor? Why are activities organized as firms or markets or through alternative organizational solutions? When are shared resources overexploited?

Asia's Innovation Systems in Transition

Asia's Innovation Systems in Transition
Author: Jan Vang
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1847201733

The success of Asian economies (first Japan, then Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and, more recently, China and India) has made it tempting to look for an Asian model of development. However, the strength of Asian development lies less in strategies that reproduce successful national systems of innovation and more in the capacity for institutional change to open up new development trajectories with greater emphasis on knowledge and learning. The select group of contributors demonstrate that although there are important differences among Asian countries in terms of institutional set.

Advanced Introduction to Platform Economics

Advanced Introduction to Platform Economics
Author: Robin Mansell
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2020-08-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1789900611

Artificial intelligence-enabled digital platforms collect and process data from and about users. These companies are largely self-regulating in Western countries. How do economic theories explain the rise of a very few dominant platforms? Mansell and Steinmueller compare and contrast neoclassical, institutional and critical political economy explanations. They show how these perspectives can lead to contrasting claims about platform benefits and harms. Uneven power relationships between platform operators and their users are treated differently in these economic traditions. Sometimes leading to advocacy for regulation or for public provision of digital services. Sometimes indicating restraint and precaution. The authors challenge the reader to think beyond the inevitability of platform dominance to create new visions of how platforms might operate in the future.