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Rethinking Regional Innovation and Change: Path Dependency or Regional Breakthrough

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Editors:
  1. Gerhard Fuchs
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  2. Philip Shapira
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  • Focuses on potentials for new forms of regional development and change considering the constraints of path dependency
  • Linkages between theory and practice, including an examination of how existing clusters are able to change their structure and direction
  • Most importantly in a field where timeliness is crucial, this book is completely up-to-date

Part of the book series: Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation (ESTI, volume 30)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Beyond Path Dependency and Competitive Convergence

    • Christoph Scherrer
    Pages 1-21

  3. Tacit Knowledge, Path Dependency and Local Trajectories of Growth

    • Meric S. Gertler
    Pages 23-41

  4. Regional Transformation and Regional Disequilibrium: New Knowledge Economies and their Discontents

    • Philip Cooke
    Pages 43-62

  5. Switching ties, recombining teams: Avoiding lock-in through project organization?

    • Gernot Grabher
    Pages 63-84

  6. Knowledge-intensive services as a key sector for processes of regional economic innovation: Leapfrogging and path dependency

    • Hans Joachim Kujath
    Pages 85-106

  7. Entrepreneurship as a source of path dependency

    • Udo Staber
    Pages 107-126

  8. Geographical proximity and the diffusion of knowledge

    • Delphine Gallaud, André Torre
    Pages 127-146

  9. Continuities, ruptures, and re-bundling of regional development paths: Leipzig’s metamorphosis

    • Harald Bathelt, Jeff Boggs
    Pages 147-170

  10. Can less favored regions change their destiny? Lessons from Europe

    • Lena J. Tsipouri
    Pages 171-194

  11. Innovation challenges and strategies in catch-up regions

    • Philip Shapira
    Pages 195-221

  12. Path dependency in Baden-Württemberg: Lock-in or breakthrough?

    • Gerhard Fuchs, Sandra Wassermann
    Pages 223-248

  13. Rethinking regional innovation policy

    • Ron Boschma
    Pages 249-271

  14. On the role of global demand in local innovation processes

    • Anders Malmberg, Dominic Power
    Pages 273-290

  15. The regionalization of innovation policy: New options for regional change?

    • Knut Koschatzky
    Pages 291-312

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 313-324
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