Local and Regional Systems of Innovation

De LA Mothe, John (EDT); Paquet, Gilles (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0792382870 / ISBN 13: 9780792382874

Published by Springer, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Local and Regional Systems of Innovation
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792382870
• ISBN 13: 9780792382874
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

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.