Innovative Clusters Drivers of National Innovation Systems

Innovative Clusters Drivers of National Innovation Systems
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2001-06-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9264193383

Policies to stimulate innovation at national and local levels must both build on and contribute to the dynamics of innovative clusters. This book presents a series of papers written by policy makers and academic experts in the field, that demonstrate why and how this can be done.

Dynamising National Innovation Systems

Dynamising National Innovation Systems
Author: Svend Remoe
Publisher: OECD
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2002-05-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Promoting innovation requires innovative government policy. Innovation through the creation, diffusion and use of knowledge has become a key driver of economic growth and provides part of the response to many new societal challenges. However, the determinants of innovation performance have changed in a globalising, knowledge-based economy. Government policy to boost innovation performance must be adapted accordingly, based on a sound conceptual framework. Synthesising the results of a multi-year OECD project on national innovation systems (NIS), this publication demonstrates how the NIS approach can be implemented in designing and implementing more efficient technology and innovation policies. Further reading Innovative Clusters: Drivers of National Innovation Systems. Innovative People: Mobility of Skilled Personnel in National Innovation Systems. Innovative Networks: Co-operation in National Innovation Systems.

Dynamising National Innovation Systems

Dynamising National Innovation Systems
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2002-05-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9264194460

Synthesising the results of a multi-year OECD project on national innovation systems (NIS), this publication demonstrates how the NIS approach can be implemented in designing and implementing more efficient technology and innovation policies.

Innovation System Frontiers

Innovation System Frontiers
Author: Brian Wixted
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2009-06-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3540927867

Recent economic transformations in the world economy are progressing in two divergent directions – international production fragmentation and industrial agglomeration. Based on extensive data analysis and using models of interdependencies between key economies, this book analyses innovation systems that cross national borders. It is shown that technological complexity is an important factor in the formation of highly specific production networks, and why, for a number of production systems, fragmentation and clustering are two sides of the same coin. By outlining the picture of a world economy structured around networks of clusters and joined together through systems of linkages of components, people and knowledge flows, the author helps to promote a better understanding of recent economic transformations.

Models of Innovation

Models of Innovation
Author: Benoit Godin
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2017-02-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0262035898

Benoît Godin is a Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Montreal. Models abound in science, technology, and society (STS) studies and in science, technology, and innovation (STI) studies. They are continually being invented, with one author developing many versions of the same model over time. At the same time, models are regularly criticized. Such is the case with the most influential model in STS-STI: the linear model of innovation. In this book, Benoît Godin examines the emergence and diffusion of the three most important conceptual models of innovation from the early twentieth century to the late 1980s: stage models, linear models, and holistic models. Godin first traces the history of the models of innovation constructed during this period, considering why these particular models came into being and what use was made of them. He then rethinks and debunks the historical narratives of models developed by theorists of innovation. Godin documents a greater diversity of thinkers and schools than in the conventional account, tracing a genealogy of models beginning with anthropologists, industrialists, and practitioners in the first half of the twentieth century to their later formalization in STS-STI. Godin suggests that a model is a conceptualization, which could be narrative, or a set of conceptualizations, or a paradigmatic perspective, often in pictorial form and reduced discursively to a simplified representation of reality. Why are so many things called models? Godin claims that model has a rhetorical function. First, a model is a symbol of “scientificity.” Second, a model travels easily among scholars and policy makers. Calling a conceptualization or narrative or perspective a model facilitates its propagation.

Clusters and Regional Development

Clusters and Regional Development
Author: Bjorn Asheim
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2006-09-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134273592

Using international examples, leading scholars present the first critical analysis of cluster theory, assessing the cluster notion and drawing out, not only its undoubted strengths and attractions, but also its weaknesses and limitations. Over the past decade the ‘cluster model’ has been seized on as a tool for promoting competitiveness, innovation and growth on local, regional and national scales. However, despite its popularity there is much about it that is problematic, and in some respects the rush to employ ‘cluster ideas’ has run ahead of many fundamental conceptual, theoretical and empirical questions. Addressing key questions on the nature, use and effectiveness of cluster models, Clusters and Regional Development provides the missing thorough theoretical and empirical evaluation.

Regionalisation, Growth, and Economic Integration

Regionalisation, Growth, and Economic Integration
Author: George M. Korres
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2007-08-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3790819255

This book analyses the process of regionalisation and plots its future development. Regionalisation is a common feature of the changing territorial organisation of European states today. Regionalisation alone, however, cannot produce any of the benefits attributed to it without looking into the conditions in which it occurs. Bringing together theory and empirical applications, coverage examines a host of these conditions.

The Dynamics of Clusters and Innovation

The Dynamics of Clusters and Innovation
Author: Brigitte Preissl
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642500110

Innovation is the motor of economic change. Over the last fifteen years, researches in innovation processes have emphasised the systemic features of innovation. Whilst innovation system analysis traditionally takes a static institutional approach, cluster analysis focuses on interaction and the dynamics of technology and innovation. First, the volume gives an overview of the different levels of analysis from which the innovation behaviour of firms has been observed in the past. The book then presents a distinct cluster approach as a useful and innovative tool to analyse the configuration and dynamics of networks of actors involved in innovative processes. This approach emphasises the possibilities of enhancing cluster benefits by introducing virtual links between cluster actors. Empirical evidence is provided for the automotive components and the telecommunication industries. By restricting the discussion to Germany and Italy, the authors are able to explore the role that national innovation systems play as a framework in which clusters operate.

Clusters in Urban and Regional Development

Clusters in Urban and Regional Development
Author: Andrew Cumbers
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1317998847

Going beyond the celebrated 'hot-spots' of economic development, this book draws upon evidence from a broader range of cities and regions to help fill some important gaps in our knowledge of how clusters operate within the contemporary global economy. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Urban Studies.

The Oxford Handbook of Innovation

The Oxford Handbook of Innovation
Author: Jan Fagerberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 676
Release: 2006-01-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199286809

This handbook provides academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation.