Local and Regional Systems of Innovation /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, MA :
Springer US,
1998.
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| Series: | Economics of science, technology, and innovation ;
14. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 342 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781461555513 (electronic bk.) 1461555515 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 1381-0480 ; |