Cooperation, networks, and institutions in regional innovation systems

Media type: E-Book

Title: Cooperation, networks, and institutions in regional innovation systems

Contains: Contents: 1. Introduction: Towards a political perspective and unifying concept -- Part I. Theoretical approaches -- 2. Local culture and regional innovation networks: Some propositions -- 3. Entrepreneurial activities in a regional context -- 4. The role of trust and power in the institutional regulation of territorial business systems -- 5. Cognitive coordination, institutions and clusters: An exploratory discussion -- 6. Problems and solutions in knowledge transfer -- 7. learning pathologies in losing areas: towards a definition of the cognitive obstacles to local development -- 8. On the unit of analysis in the study of networks -- Part ii. Case studies -- 9. Is Nanjing's concentration of it companies an innovative cluster? -- 10. TV content production in media regions: the necessities and difficulties of public policy support for a project-based industry -- 11. How many networks in a local cluster? Textile machine production and innovation in Brescia -- 12. 'Lock-in' of regional clusters: the case of offshore engineering -- Part III. Policy implications -- 13. Entrepreneurship stimulation in regional innovation systems - public promotion of university-based start-ups in Germany -- 14. Cooperation and knowledge-pooling in clusters: Designing territorial competitiveness policies -- 15. policy measures to support the emergence of localised industrial clusters -- Index.

Contributor: Fornahl, Dirk [HerausgeberIn]; Brenner, Thomas [HerausgeberIn]

Corporation: Edward Elgar Publishing

imprint: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 362 pages); illustrations

Language: English

ISBN: 9781035304752

RVK notation: MS 4850 : Industrie (allgemeines) und Technik (Automatisierung), Technologie (Allgemeines)
RB 10903 : Raumforschung, Raumordnung, Landesplanung
QY 000 : Allgemeines
RB 10651 : Teilgebiete und Einzelfragen
QQ 955 : Einzelne Probleme des Tourismus

Keywords: Unternehmenskooperation > Innovationsförderung > Netzwerk > Regionalwirtschaft > Kongress > Technische Innovation
Regionale Wirtschaftsentwicklung > Innovation > Kooperation

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Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index

Description: This book addresses the role of cooperation, networks and institutions in the context of regional innovation systems. It emphasises the importance of these factors in the emergence of local innovation systems, using detailed examples of clusters which have reached different stages of maturity. The authors address the topic from an empirical, theoretical and political perspective, and highlight the local mechanisms which are involved in the development of innovation systems. They offer a comprehensive overview of different approaches in the field and present numerous case studies which stress the influence of networks and local institutions. Significantly, they also introduce several new approaches to regional innovation systems, including contributions which explicitly discuss the design and potential of policy measures to promote regional development. The policy recommendations are based on sound theorising which, in turn, is based on extensive empirical research. This book is a valuable addition to a complex and growing literature which offers new perspectives and insights on cooperation, networks and institutions, and their role in the development of local systems of innovation. The combination of empirical, theoretical and policy-oriented approaches will ensure this book is essential reading for academics and policymakers in the fields of regional economics, innovation research and economic geography

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