Research Catalog

Rethinking regional innovation and change : path dependency or regional breakthrough

Title: Rethinking regional innovation and change : path dependency or regional breakthrough / edited by Gerhard Fuchs and Philip Shapira.
Publication: New York : Springer, ©2005.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Use in library	HT388 .R48 2005	Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Description

xviii, 321 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"Rethinking Regional Innovation and Change: Path Dependency or Regional Breakthrough? 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. Using cases from both highly developed and less developed regions, they explore the complex relationships between technical and industrial development paths and regional institutions. They assess the extent to which regional innovative capacity can be increased by strengthening, re-orienting, or creating institutions and policies, and they examine opportunities for reflexive practice at the regional level as a critical tool in orienting regional development. Up-to-date case studies present diverse theoretical perspectives from economics, political science, geography, planning, and public policy." "This volume will be of particular, interest to researchers, analysts, and policymakers in the fields of regional development, innovation policy and institutional and organizational change, as well as faculty and students in public policy, public administration, planning, geography, regional economics, and economic development."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Economics of science, technology, and innovation ; v. 30

Uniform Title

Economics of science, technology, and innovation ; v. 30.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Beyond path dependency and competitive convergence : Institutional transfer from a discourse-analytical perspective / Christoph Scherrer -- 2. Tacit knowledge, path dependency and local trajectories of growth / Meric S. Gertler -- 3. Regional transformation and regional disequilibrium : New knowledge economies and their discontents / Philip Cooke -- 4. Switching ties, recombining teams : Avoiding lock-in through project organization? / Gemot Grabher -- 5. Knowledge-intensive services as a key sector for processes of regional economic innovation : Leap-frogging and path dependency / Hans Joachim Kujath -- 6. Entrepreneurship as a source of path dependency / Udo Staber -- 7. Geographical proximity and the diffusion of knowledge : The case of SME's in biotechnology / Delphine Gallaud and Andre Torre / 8. Continuities, ruptures, and re-bundling of regional development paths : Leipzig's metamorphosis / Harald Bathelt and Jeff Boggs / 9. Can less favored regions change their destiny? : Lessons from Europe / Lena J. Tsipouri -- 10. Innovation challenges and strategies in catch-up regions / Philip Shapira -- 11. Path dependency in Baden-Wtrttemberg : Lock-in or breakthrough? / Gerhard Fuchs and Sandra Wassermann -- 12. Rethinking regional innovation policy / Ron Boschma -- 13. On the role of global demand in local innovation processes / Anders Malmberg and Dominic Power -- 14. The regionalization of innovation policy : New options for regional change? / Knut Koschatzky.

ISBN

0387230017
9780387230016
0387230025
9780387230023

LCCN

2004058937

OCLC

ocm56527284
56527284
SCSB-8936706

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library