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.
| ISBN: | 9780792382874 |
| Publication date: | 30th September 1998 |
| Author: | Gilles Paquet, John De la Mothe |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer US |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 341 pages |
| Series: | Economics of Science, Technology, and Innovation |
| Genres: |
Economic growth Business innovation Economics of industrial organization |