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Handbook of Regional Innovation and Growth

9780857931511 Edward Elgar Publishing

Edited by Philip Cooke, formerly University Research Professor in Regional Development and Director, Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK, Bjørn Asheim, Professor, CIRCLE (Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy) and Department of Human Geography, Lund University, Sweden and University of Agder, Norway, Ron Boschma, Professor, Department of Economic Geography and the Urban and Regional Research Centre Utrecht (URU), Utrecht University, the Netherlands, Ron Martin, Professor of Economic Geography, Director of Research and Fellow of St Catharine''s College, University of Cambridge, London, UK, Dafna Schwartz, Reichman University, Israel and Franz Tödtling, WU Wirtschaftsuniversität, Austria

Publication Date: 2013 ISBN: 978 0 85793 151 1 Extent: 648 pp

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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.

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Contributors: M. Abreu, E.S. Andersen, Y. Aoyama, B. Asheim, S. Bagchi-Sen, M. Bellandi, F. Belussi, R. Boschma, N. Bosma, S. Breschi, R. Capello, C. Carrincazeaux, J.L. Christensen, P. Cooke, M. Coris, O. Crevoisier, L. De Propris, A. Eriksson, D. Felsenstein, A. Frenkel, K. Frenken, E. Giuliani, V. Harmaakorpi, M. Heidenreich, R. Horner, S. Iammarino, A. Isaksen, A. James, M. Klofsten, K. Koschatzky, A. Lagendijk, L. Lazzeretti, E. Malecki, R. Martin, H. Melkas, C. Nauwelaers, S. Öberg, P. Prud’homme van Reine, S. Ptak, S. Rosenfeld, V. Schutjens, D. Schwartz, D. Shefer, J. Simmie, E. Stam, M. Steiner, P. Sunley, G. Tichy, F. Tödtling, M. Trippl, T. Tura, E. Vatne, D. Wolfe

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Contents:

Preface

1. Introduction to the Handbook of Regional Innovation and Growth
Philip Cooke, Bjørn Asheim, Ron Boschma, Ron Martin, Dafna Schwartz and Franz Tödtling

PART I: REGIONAL INNOVATION THEORY
Introduction
Bjørn Asheim and Dafna Schwartz

2. Schumpeter and Regional Innovation
Esben Sloth Andersen

3. Neo-Schumpeterian Perspectives on Innovation and Growth
David Wolfe

4. Regional Agglomeration and Growth: The Classical Approach
Eirik Vatne

5. Innovation, Product Life Cycle and Diffusion: Vernon and Beyond
Gunther Tichy

6. Perspectives on Mature Marshallian Industrial Districts
Marco Bellandi

7. The New Marshallian Districts and their Process of Internationalization
Fiorenza Belussi

PART II: REGIONAL INNOVATION AND GROWTH DYNAMICS
Introduction
Philip Cooke, Franz Tödtling and Dafna Schwartz

8. Innovation and Productivity: Local Competitiveness and the Role of Space
Roberta Capello

9. Human Capital and Labour Mobility Determinants of Regional Innovation
Daniel Felsenstein

10. The Geography of Knowledge Flows
Stefano Breschi

11. Regional Innovation and Diversity
Simona Iammarino

12. Networks of Innovation
Elisa Giuliani

13. From Regional Anchors to Anchoring
Lisa De Propris and Olivier Crevoisier

PART III: REGIONAL INNOVATION AND EVOLUTION
Introduction
Ron Boschma and Ron Martin

14. Technological Relatedness, Related Variety and Economic Geography
Ron Boschma and Koen Frenken

15. Regional Economies as Path-Dependent Systems: Some Issues and Implications
Ron Martin

16. Absorptive Capacity in a Regional Context
Maria Abreu

17. Regional Knowledge Networks
Michael Steiner

18. Regional Competitiveness: From Endowments to Externalities to Evolution
Ron Martin

19. Regional Cultural Economy: Evolution and Innovation
Al James

PART IV: AGGLOMERATION AND INNOVATION
Introduction
Philip Cooke and Bjørn Asheim

20. Proximity and Innovation
Christophe Carrincazeaux and Marie Coris

21. The Changing Form and Geography of Social Capital
Stuart Rosenfeld

22. Cluster Evolution
Arne Isaksen

23. Transversality and Regional Innovation Platforms
Philip Cooke

24. Technology Clusters
Edward Malecki

PART V: REGIONAL WORLDS OF INNOVATION
Introduction
Philip Cooke and Dafna Schwartz

25. Worlds of Production: Conventions and the Microfoundations of Regional Economies
Peter Sunley

26. Culture as a Source for Growth and Change: Some Evidences from Cultural Clusters in Andalusia
Luciana Lazzeretti

27. Service Innovation
Yuko Aoyama and Rory Horner

28. Regional Services Innovation
Philip Cooke

29. Open Innovation and Regional Growth
Peter Prud’homme van Reine

30. Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Innovation
Philip Cooke and Dafna Schwartz

31. Innovation Systems in Emerging Economies: The Case of India
Scott Ptak and Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen

32. Green Innovation
Philip Cooke

PART VI: REGIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM INSTITUTIONS
Introduction
Dafna Schwartz and Franz Tödtling

33. Regional Innovation Systems
Franz Tödtling and Michaela Trippl

34. Intermediaries in Regional Innovation Systems: Role and Challenges for Policy
Claire Nauwelaers

35. Regional Entrepreneurship
Niels Bosma, Veronique Schutjens and Erik Stam

36. Venture Capital in Regional Innovation and Growth
Jesper Lindgaard Christensen

37. Regional Entrepreneurship Development: Promoting Spin-offs through Coaching and Mentoring
Magnus Klofsten and Staffan Öberg

38. Regional Innovation and Incubation: The Technological Incubators Programme for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Daniel Shefer and Amnon Frenkel

PART VII: REGIONAL INNOVATION POLICY
Introduction
Philip Cooke and Ron Boschma

39. Regional Innovation Governance
Martin Heidenreich and Knut Koschatzky

40. Learning Regions
James Simmie

41. Regional Innovation Platforms
Vesa Harmaakorpi, Tomi Tura and Helinä Melkas

42. Regional Innovation Policy and Dramaturgy
Philip Cooke

43. Design-Driven Regional Innovation
Philip Cooke and Arne Eriksson

44. Regional Innovation Policy between Theory and Practice
Arnoud Lagendijk

Index