Learning Regional Innovation

Learning Regional Innovation
Author: Marianne Ekman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2010-12-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 023030415X

Participation and social responsibility in innovation is the core theme of this book. Both are issues of organization and not of ethics, or the enforcement of other forms of obligations on individual actors. The need is for a democratization of innovation that can make innovation open to broad participation.

New Avenues for Regional Innovation Systems - Theoretical Advances, Empirical Cases and Policy Lessons

New Avenues for Regional Innovation Systems - Theoretical Advances, Empirical Cases and Policy Lessons
Author: Arne Isaksen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2018-03-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319716611

This book discusses the latest theoretical advances in regional innovation research, presents empirical cases involving the development of regional innovation systems (RISs), and explores regional innovation policy approaches. Grounded in the extensive literature on RISs, it addresses state-of-the-art developments in light of recent theoretical advances in economic geography and related disciplines. Written in honor of Bjørn Asheim's seventieth birthday, the book includes novel and carefully selected chapters prepared by collaborators, colleagues and former PhD-students of one of the founding fathers of RIS research. Further, it makes a significant contribution to the academic debate on regional innovation and growth and offers valuable insights for scholars and policymakers alike.

Learning Regional Innovation

Learning Regional Innovation
Author: Marianne Ekman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2010-12-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 023030415X

Participation and social responsibility in innovation is the core theme of this book. Both are issues of organization and not of ethics, or the enforcement of other forms of obligations on individual actors. The need is for a democratization of innovation that can make innovation open to broad participation.

Learning Together for Local Innovation

Learning Together for Local Innovation
Author: Bjørn Gustavsen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2007
Genre: Aménagement du territoire
ISBN:

Recoge: Part I: Addressing the issue of local innovation. - Part II: European regional learning cases. - Part III: Changing role of universities in promoting regional learning. - Part IV: Theoretical reflections on the learning region concept.

Local and Regional Systems of Innovation

Local and Regional Systems of Innovation
Author: John de la Mothe
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1461555515

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.

Regional Innovation Strategies

Regional Innovation Strategies
Author: Kevin Morgan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2004-06-02
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134995997

Regional Innovation Strategies offers the first comprehensive analysis of the new wave of innovation-oriented regional policies. It draws conclusions from the European Regional Technology Plans and Regional Innovation Strategies, both in old industrialised areas and in regions where development is slow, and compares this with US and Canadian experiences. Anticipating the enlargement of the EU, Regional Innovation Strategies also assesses the growing interest in the subject within policy, academic and practitioner circles in Central and Eastern European countries. This book aims to provide information on the new regional innovation polices and gives the first assessment of this promising pool of regional experiences.

Innovation Networks and Learning Regions?

Innovation Networks and Learning Regions?
Author: James Simme
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134996209

Innovation, Networks and Learning Regions? address key issues of understanding in contemporary economic geography and local economic policy making in cities and regions in the advanced economies. Developing the idea that innovation is the primary driving force behind economic change and growth, the international range of contributors stress the importance of knowledge and information as the 'raw materials' of innovation. They examine the ways in which these elements may be acquired and linked through networks, and demonstrate that there are empirical examples of innovative areas which do not have highly developed networks yet appear to be relatively successful in terms of local economic growth. In so doing, they raise crucial questions about the ways in which regions or localities might be described as truly 'learning' areas, and about the sustainability of future economic and quality of life success based on innovation and high-technology.

Rethinking Regional Innovation and Change: Path Dependency or Regional Breakthrough

Rethinking Regional Innovation and Change: Path Dependency or Regional Breakthrough
Author: Gerhard Fuchs
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2006-02-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0387230025

Rethinking Regional Innovation and Change brings together papers from leading international scholars in the field of regional development and policy. The contributors examine the interactions between path-dependent developments, institutions, and governance structures that influence regional innovation capacity. Up-to-date case studies present diverse theoretical perspectives from economics, political science, geography, planning, and public policy.