Local and Regional Systems of Innovation (Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation, Band 14) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 146137538X ISBN 13: 9781461375388

Verlag: Springer, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 146137538X
• ISBN 13: 9781461375388
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 360
• Herausgeber: Mothe John De La, Paquet Gilles
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