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Innovation systems in a global context : the North American experience / edited by Robert Anderson ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Robert, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technological innovations--North America.
- Technological innovations.
- International economic integration.
- North America--Economic integration.
- North America.
- North America--Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focusing on North America, Innovation Systems in a Global Context examines the nature of existing systems of innovation in the United States, Canada, and Mexico; the conceptual questions surrounding the analysis of such systems; trends towards the creation of supranational systems in East Asia, Europe, and North America; and some of the ecological, cultural, economic, and social problems confronting these large-scale systems.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Innovation Systems in a Global Context""; ""PART ONE: CONCEPTUALIZING INNOVATION SYSTEMS""; ""1 Competitiveness, Sustainability, and the North American Regional System of Innovation""; ""2 Techno-nationalism and Meso Innovation Systems""; ""3 Making the Most of North American Integration: The Challenges""; ""PART TWO: NATIONAL SYSTEMS OF INNOVATION IN NORTH AMERICA""; ""4 Canada's National R&D System""; ""5 Mexico's National Innovation System in the 1990's: Overview and Sectoral Effects""
- ""6 The Triple Helix of Academia-Industry-Government: The U.S. National Innovation System""""PART THREE: REGIONAL SYSTEMS OF INNOVATION""; ""7 The North American System of Innovation in the Global Context""; ""8 The Regionalization of Production and Competitiveness in East Asia""; ""9 The European Information Society and Regional Cohesion""; ""PART FOUR: EMERGING ISSUES IN INNOVATION SYSTEMS""; ""10 Competitiveness and Complex Economic Integration in the North American Region""
- ""11 The Variable Geometry of Asian Trade: Trade and Competitiveness in North American' East Asian Interdependence""""12 Stabilization, Structural Adjustment, and Labour Market Performance after NAFTA: The Mexican Experience""; ""13 Sustainable Development and Technological Innovation in North America""; ""Contributors""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-85525-5
- 9786612855252
- 0-7735-6740-2
- OCLC:
- 929121507
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