Rethinking Regional Innovation And Change Path Dependency Or Regional Breakthrough

Author : Gerhard Fuchs,Philip Shapira
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780387230023

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Rethinking Regional Innovation and Change: Path Dependency or Regional Breakthrough by Gerhard Fuchs,Philip Shapira Pdf

Rethinking Regional Innovation and Change brings together papers from leading international scholars in the field of regional development and policy. The contributors examine the interactions between path-dependent developments, institutions, and governance structures that influence regional innovation capacity. Up-to-date case studies present diverse theoretical perspectives from economics, political science, geography, planning, and public policy.

Author : Philip Cooke,Bjørn Asheim,Ron Boschma,Ron Martin,Dafna Schwartz,Franz T_dtling
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857931504

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Handbook of Regional Innovation and Growth by Philip Cooke,Bjørn Asheim,Ron Boschma,Ron Martin,Dafna Schwartz,Franz T_dtling Pdf

Today, economic growth is widely understood to be conditioned by productivity increases which are, in turn, profoundly affected by innovation. This volume explores these key relationships between innovation and growth, bringing together experts from both fields to compile a unique Handbook. The Handbook considers innovation from fresh perspectives, encompassing topics such as services innovation, inward investment and innovation, creative industry innovation and green innovation. It is divided into seven sections, dealing with regional innovation and growth theory, dynamics, evolution, agglomeration, innovation 'worlds', innovation system institutions, and innovation governance and policy. This definitive compendium on regional innovation and growth will undoubtedly appeal to teachers, students, researchers and practitioners of innovation and growth dynamics worldwide.

Author : Marie Söderberg,Patricia A Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135181253

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Japan’s Politics and Economy by Marie Söderberg,Patricia A Nelson Pdf

For some time Japan has been under fire for adjusting too slowly to new realities. While this criticism may be valid on some levels, Japan has been transforming in tandem with both regional and global forces. However, these changes have been largely overshadowed by the immense changes in Asia; including the rise of China, the 1997 Southeast Asian financial crisis and North Korea's development of nuclear weapons. Has Japan, the world's second largest economy, only been muddling through? In this volume the contributors show that although the challenges faced are great, Japan is changing in areas ranging from political leadership, education policy, official development assistance, peace building and security, to defence production, business associations and innovation policy. The book analyses processes of change, focusing on the dynamics of change - rather than structural change or institutional change per se - from four levels: the individual, domestic, regional and global. Forces from outside Japan, such as a changing world order and changes in power relationships in Asia, have driven change along with pressures emerging within Japan, such as the increasing power of public opinion and competitiveness within markets. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Japanese and Asian Studies, Politics, International Relations, Globalization, Business and Economics.

Author : Ron A. Boschma,Ron L. Martin
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847204912

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The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography by Ron A. Boschma,Ron L. Martin Pdf

This wide-ranging handbook studies and defines the paradigm of evolutionary economic geography. The distinguished contributors highlight the key conceptual, theoretical and empirical advances, and present a clear statement of their aims, objectives and methods.

Author : James Simmie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317688877

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Path Dependence and New Path Creation in Renewable Energy Technologies by James Simmie Pdf

Why are old technologies persisted with after better alternatives have been invented? This book examines this question, a central concern of evolutionary economics, specifically focusing on renewable energy technologies. The concept of path dependence is used to analyse why and how technological development can become locked-in to inefficient ways of doing things. This book shows how lock-in can be avoided by the creation of new technological pathways. The chapters focus on the comparatively recent introduction of new wind turbine technologies for the generation of carbon free electricity. This case study provides valuable lessons in understanding the issues confronting inventors attempting to commercialise their new ideas in the form of innovations in the face of historically established conventional technologies. It is also set within the critical debate on climate change and the need to de-carbonise energy supplies in order to stop further man-made deterioration in the global environment. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.

Author : Anna Gąsior-Niemiec,Józef Niżnik
Publisher : Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz"
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788389188694

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The individuality of a scholar and advancement of social science : the scholarship of Antoni Kukliński by Anna Gąsior-Niemiec,Józef Niżnik Pdf

Author : Patrick Brouder,Salvador Anton Clavé,Alison Gill,Dimitri Ioannides
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317009559

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Tourism Destination Evolution by Patrick Brouder,Salvador Anton Clavé,Alison Gill,Dimitri Ioannides Pdf

Outlining the need for fresh perspectives on change in tourism, this book offers a theoretical overview and empirical examples of the potential synergies of applying evolutionary economic geography (EEG) concepts in tourism research. EEG has proven to be a powerful explanatory paradigm in other sectors and tourism studies has a track record of embracing, adapting, and enhancing frameworks from cognate fields. EEG approaches to tourism studies complement and further develop studies of established themes such as path dependence and the Tourism Area Life Cycle. The individual chapters draw from a broad geographical framework and address distinct conceptual elements of EEG, using a diverse set of tourism case studies from Europe, North America and Australia. Developing the theoretical cohesion of tourism and EEG, this volume also gives non-specialist tourism scholars a window into the possibilities of using these concepts in their own research. Given the timing of this publication, it has great potential value to the wider tourism community in advancing theory and leading to more effective empirical research.

Author : Urban Gråsjö,Charlie Karlsson,Iréne Bernhard
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786439901

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Geography, Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Urban Gråsjö,Charlie Karlsson,Iréne Bernhard Pdf

Developed countries must be incredibly innovative to secure incomes and welfare so that they may successfully compete against international rivals. This book focuses on two specific but interrelated aspects of innovation by incumbent firms and entrepreneurs, the role of geography and of open innovation.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264031838

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OECD Reviews of Regional Innovation Competitive Regional Clusters National Policy Approaches by OECD Pdf

This report analyses the objectives, targeting, instruments and inter-governmental role sharing used by 26 regional cluster programmes in 14 OECD countries.

Author : Ron Martin,Michael Kitson,Peter Tyler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136012549

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Regional Competitiveness by Ron Martin,Michael Kitson,Peter Tyler Pdf

There is now a wide spread interest in regions as a key focus in the organization and governance of economic growth and wealth creation. This important book considers the factors that influence and shape the competitive performance of regions. This is not just an issue of academic interest and debate, but also of increasing policy deliberation and action. However, as the readings in this book make clear, the very idea of regional competitiveness is itself complex and contentious. Many academics and policy makers have used the concept without fully considering what is meant by the term and how it can be measured. Policy formulation has tended to rush ahead of understanding and analysis, and the purpose of this book is to close this important gap in understanding. This book was previously published as a special issue of Regional Studies.

Author : Philip Cooke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415686464

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Re-framing Regional Development by Philip Cooke Pdf

Résumé : "Reframing regional development : complex systems integration, "emergence", and policy modularisation / Philip Cooke -- Evolutionary transition space -- A world in emergence : notes toward a resynthesis of urban-economic geography for the 21st / Century Allen J. Scott -- Regional resilience, cross-sectoral knowledge platforms and the prospects for growth in Canadian city-regions / David A. Wolfe -- Forms of emergence and the evolution of economic landscapes / Ron Martin and Peter Sunley -- Strange attractors and policy emergence : complex adaptive innovation / Philip Cooke -- Innovation and diversity -- The health technologies sector in Oxfordshire : evolution or optimism in regional development? / Helen Lawton-Smith -- Reframing regional innovation systems : evolution, complexity, and public policy / Elvira Uyarra and Kieron Flanagan -- Path dependence and new technological path creation in the economic landscape / James Simmie -- Proximity and innovation networks : an evolutionary approach / Pierre-Alexandre Balland, Ron Boschma, and Koen Frenken -- Cluster emergence and destabilisation -- Foresight and innovation : emergence and resilience of the cleantech cluster at Lahti, Finland / Helinä Melkas and Tuomo Uotila -- "Twilight of the gods" : the rise of Asia Pacific and Californian convergent media and the demise of Nordic Mobile Telephony in the ICT global innovation network / Philip Cooke -- The remarkable resilience of cities of art : the challenge of a new renaissance in Florence / Luciana Lazzeretti -- Socio-cultural dynamics in spatial policy : explaining the on-going success of cluster politics / Dieter Rehfeld and Judith Terstriep -- Evolutionary spatial policy -- Transformation of regional innovation systems : from old legacies to new development paths / Franz Tödtling and Michaela Trippl -- Path dependence and the state : the politics of novelty in old industrial regions / Kevin Morgan -- City-regions, innovation, and universities : the evolution and transition of uk urban governance institutions / Fumi Kitagawa."

Author : Roel Rutten,Paul Benneworth,Dessy Irawati,Frans Boekema
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135130107

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The Social Dynamics of Innovation Networks by Roel Rutten,Paul Benneworth,Dessy Irawati,Frans Boekema Pdf

The social dynamics of innovation networks captures the important role of trust, social capital, institutions and norms and values in the creation of knowledge in innovation networks. In doing so, this book connects to a long-standing debate on the socio-spatial context of innovation in economic geography, which is usually referred to as the Territorial Models of Innovation (TIMs) literature. This present volume breaks with the TIM literature in several important ways. In the first place, this book emphasizes the role of individual agency because individuals and their networks are increasingly recognized as the principal agents of knowledge creation. Secondly, this volume looks at space as a continuous field of opportunity rather than as bounded territory with a set of endowments, such as knowledge base and social capital. Although individually these elements are not new to the TIM literature, it has thus far failed to grasp their critical implication for studying the social dynamics of innovation networks. The approach to the socio-spatial context of innovation in this volume is summarized as Knowledge Economy 2.0. It emphasizes that human creativity is now the main source of economic value and that human creativity and knowledge creation is not an organized process within organizations, but happens bottom up in formal and informal professional and social networks of individuals that cut across multiple organizations.

Author : Gotthard Bechmann
Publisher : edition sigma
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Information society
ISBN : 9783894049423

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The Social Integration of Science by Gotthard Bechmann Pdf

Author : Canfei He,Shengjun Zhu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811334474

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Evolutionary Economic Geography in China by Canfei He,Shengjun Zhu Pdf

The book provides the first detailed account of the complex geographical dynamics restructuring China’s manufacturing industries from the evolutionary economic geography perspective. These geographical and industrial shifts have enormous implications in and beyond China for what is possible in the post-crisis global economy. The book demonstrates that the interface between evolutionary economic geography approaches and other approaches (e.g. global value chain, global production network, institutional economic geography) could be a fertile area for further consideration. The two main audiences that this book appeals to are economic geography and regional science. The topics covered in the book are also relevant to development studies, economics, economic sociology and international studies, offering academics, international researchers, post-graduate and advanced undergraduate students in these fields an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically sophisticated account of the evolutionary economic geography in China and its interaction with firm performance and regional economic development. The book is also attractive to national policy makers, since it engages directly with economic and industrial policy issues, such as industrial competitiveness, regional and national development, industrial and employment restructuring, and trade regulation.

Author : Karima Kourtit,Peter Nijkamp,Roger R. Stough
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642179402

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Drivers of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Regional Dynamics by Karima Kourtit,Peter Nijkamp,Roger R. Stough Pdf

The need for informed and effective insights into key concepts and models of regional development and growth, from an endogenous growth perspective, has risen over the past decade. These recent advances address in particular local and regional assets and characteristics comprising inter alia creativity, knowledge, innovation forces and entrepreneurship. Access to and exploitation of these modern forms of human and social capital are of paramount importance for the dynamic regional economic environment in a city or region. This volume offers an overview and critical treatment of the spatial-economic roots, opportunities and impacts of new growth strategies, mainly from an evidence-based perspective. In the various contributions to this volume, relevant findings and strategic options are interpreted and discussed from both an analytical and a policy perspective to help cultivate creativity, human capital development and innovation as well as entrepreneurial activity, with a view to exploit the drivers of economic development, in order to strengthen the competitive edge of cities and regions.