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Local and Regional Systems of Innovation

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. John Mothe

    1. University of Ottawa, Canada

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  2. Gilles Paquet

    1. University of Ottawa, Canada

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Part of the book series: Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation (ESTI, volume 14)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  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
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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.

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  • University of Ottawa, Canada

    John Mothe, Gilles Paquet

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