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Local and Regional Systems of Innovation

Local and Regional Systems of Innovation - Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation

Softcover reprint of the original 1st Edition 1998

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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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781461375388
Publisher: Springer US
Imprint: Springer
Pub date:
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st Edition 1998
Language: English
Number of pages: 342
Weight: 551g
Height: 235mm
Width: 155mm
Spine width: 19mm