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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A In Search of Conceptual Framework. - 1. Local and Regional Systems of Innovation as Learning Socio-Economies. - B Conceptual Perspectives. - 2. Calibrating the Learning Region. - 3. Regional Systems of Innovation and the Blurred Firm. - 4. Modeling Regional Innovation and Competitiveness. - C International and Interregional Perspectives. - 5. Knowledge-Based Industrial Clustering: International Comparisons. - 6. Contrasting U. S. Metropolitan Systems of Innovation. - 7. Contrasting Regional Innovation Systems in Oxford and Cambridge. - 8. Telecoms in New Jersey: Spatial Determinants of Sectoral Investments. - D Perspectives on Canada s Local and Regional Systems of Innovation. - 9. Innovation in Enterprises in British Columbia. - 10. How Do Small Firms Innovate in British Columbia? . - 11. The Dynamics of Regional Innovation in Ontario. - 12. Canada s Technology Triangle. - 13. The Chaudière-Appalaches System of Industrial Innovations. - 14. Saint John, NB. As an Emerging Local System of Innovation. - 15. Canadian Science Parks, Universities, and Regional Development. - E Quo Vadis? . - 16. Some Lessons and Challenges for Model Builders, Data Gatherers and Other Tribes.
