Local and Regional Systems of Innovation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. In Search of Conceptual Framework

   1. Front Matter

      Pages xiii-xiii

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   2. Local and Regional Systems of Innovation as Learning Socio-Economies

      • John de la Mothe, Gilles Paquet

      Pages 1-16

3. Conceptual Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Calibrating the Learning Region

      • Richard Florida

      Pages 19-28

   3. Regional Systems of Innovation and The Blurred Firm

      • AnnaLee Saxenian

      Pages 29-43

   4. Modeling Regional Innovation and Competitiveness

      • Tim Padmore, Hervey Gibson

      Pages 45-79

4. International and Inter-Regional Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 80-80

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   2. Knowledge-Based Industrial Clustering: International Comparisons

      • Roger Voyer

      Pages 81-110

   3. Contrasting U.S. Metropolitan Systems of Innovation

      • Zoltan J. Acs, Felix R. FitzRoy, Ian Smith

      Pages 111-124

   4. Contrasting Regional Innovation Systems in Oxford and Cambridge

      • Helen Lawton Smith, David Keeble, Clive Lawson, Barry Moore, Frank Wilkinson

      Pages 125-148

   5. Telecoms in New Jersey: Spatial Determinants of Sectoral Investments

      • Cliff Wymbs

      Pages 149-170

5. Perspectives on Canada’s Local and Regional Systems of Innovation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. Innovation in Enterprises in British Columbia

      • J. A. D. Holbrook, L. P. Hughes

      Pages 173-190

   3. How do Small Firms Innovate in British Columbia?

      • Hans G. Schuetze

      Pages 191-209

   4. The Dynamics of Regional Innovation in Ontario

      • Meric S. Gertler, David A. Wolfe, David Garkut

      Pages 211-238

   5. 12 Canada’s Technology Triangle

      • Jeffrey Roy

      Pages 239-255

   6. 13 The Chaudière-Appalaches System of Industrial Innovations

      • Réjean Landry, Nabil Amara

      Pages 257-276

   7. 14 Saint John, Nb. as an Emerging Local System of Innovation

      • Richard Nimijean

      Pages 277-302

   8. Canadian Science Parks, Universities, and Regional Development

      • Jérôme Doutriaux

      Pages 303-324

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.

• Economic Development
• Forschung & Entwicklung
• economic growth
• growth
• innovation

• University of Ottawa, Canada

  John Mothe, Gilles Paquet

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