Local and Regional Systems of Innovation (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation, 14
Release date:	September 1998
First published:	September 1998
Editors:	John De LA Mothe • Gilles Paquet
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	342
Edition:	1998 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-8287-4
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General
LSN:	0-7923-8287-0
Barcode:	9780792382874

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