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Innovation governance in an open economy : shaping regional nodes in a globalized world / edited by Annika Rickne, Staffan Laestadius and Henry Etzkowitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Regions and cities ; 56.
- Regions and cities ; 56
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Regional planning--Sweden.
- Regional planning.
- Technological innovations--Economic aspects--Sweden.
- Technological innovations.
- Diffusion of innovations--Sweden.
- Diffusion of innovations.
- Business and education--Sweden.
- Business and education.
- Organizational learning--Case studies.
- Organizational learning.
- Sweden--Economic policy--Case studies.
- Sweden.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In an increasingly globalised world, paradoxically regional innovation clusters have moved to the forefront of attention as a strategy for economic and social development. Transcending international success cases, like Silicon Valley and Route 128, as sources of lessons, successful high tech clusters in niche areas have had a significant impact on peripheral regions. Are these successful innovation clusters born or made? If they are subject to planning and direction, what is the shape that it takes: top down, bottom up or lateral?
- Contents:
- Cover; Innovation Governance in an Open Economy; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; 1. Regional governance in global innovation processes; 2. The theoretical foundation for Swedish innovation policy; 3. "Spaces": A triple helix governance strategy for regional innovation; 4. Regional dynamics in non-metropolitan hi-tech clusters: A longitudinal study of two Nordic regions; 5. Regional strength in global competition: Collaborative patterns for life science firms in
- 6. Between the regional and the global: Regional innovation systems policy and industrial knowledge formation7. Regional policy as change management: Theoretical discussion and empirical illustrations; 8. Constructing an innovation policy agency: The case of the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems; 9. Policy scripts and practice; 10. Can regional innovation systems be "constructed"?; 11. Gender in governance of regional innovation: Why gender matters and is mainstreamed in the Swedish case; 12. Entrepreneurship and public policy in emerging clusters
- 13. The "start-up factor": Regional innovation policy convergence between the US and Sweden14. Lessons on regional innovation governance in open economies; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-32653-7
- 1-280-66512-2
- 9786613642059
- 0-203-12130-9
- 1-136-32654-5
- 9780203121306
- OCLC:
- 798532848
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