Local and Regional Systems of Innovation (Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation (14))

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Front Matter....Pages xiii-xiii Local and Regional Systems of Innovation as Learning Socio-Economies....Pages 1-16 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Calibrating the Learning Region....Pages 19-28 Regional Systems of Innovation and The Blurred Firm....Pages 29-43 Modeling Regional Innovation and Competitiveness....Pages 45-79 Front Matter....Pages 80-80 Knowledge-Based Industrial Clustering: International Comparisons....Pages 81-110 Contrasting U.S. Metropolitan Systems of Innovation....Pages 111-124 Contrasting Regional Innovation Systems in Oxford and Cambridge....Pages 125-148 Telecoms in New Jersey: Spatial Determinants of Sectoral Investments....Pages 149-170 Front Matter....Pages 171-171 Innovation in Enterprises in British Columbia....Pages 173-190 How do Small Firms Innovate in British Columbia?....Pages 191-209 The Dynamics of Regional Innovation in Ontario....Pages 211-238 12 Canada’s Technology Triangle....Pages 239-255 13 The Chaudière-Appalaches System of Industrial Innovations....Pages 257-276 14 Saint John, Nb. as an Emerging Local System of Innovation....Pages 277-302 Canadian Science Parks, Universities, and Regional Development....Pages 303-324 Front Matter....Pages 325-325 Some Lessons and Challenges for Model Builders, Data Gatherers and Other Tribes....Pages 327-334 Back Matter....Pages 335-342 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. 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.