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Cambridge : Cambridge University, 2007

xxxii, 349 s. : il.

ISBN 0-521-68953-8 (brož.)

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This critical addition to the growing literature on innovation contains extensive analyses of the institutional and spatial aspects of innovation. Written by leading scholars in the fields of economic geography, innovation studies, planning, and technology policy, the fourteen chapters cover conceptual and measurement issues in innovation and relevant technology policies. The contributors examine how different institutional factors facilitate or hamper the flows of information and knowledge within and across firms, regions, and nations. In particular, they provide central insights into the roles of important institutions such as gender and culture, which are often neglected in the innovation literature, and demonstrate the key role that geography plays in the innovation process. They also discuss those institutions and policy measures which support entrepreneurship and cluster development. The result is an excellent comparative picture of the institutional factors underlying innovation systems across the globe..

Inovace - studie

Geografie ekonomická - svět - studie

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List of figures page vii // List of tables viii // Notes on contributors x // Acknowledgments xvi // Abstracts xix // List of abbreviations and acronyms xxvii // Part I Concepts and measurements in innovation // 1 Introduction 3 - KAREN R. POLENSKE // 2 Measurement of the clustering and dispersion of innovation 13 - ANNE P. CARTER // 3 Measuring the geography of innovation: a literature review 30 - API WAT RATANAWARAHA AND KAREN R. POLENSKE // 4 Employment growth and clusters dynamics of creative industries in Great Britain 60 - BERNARD FINGLETON, DANILO C. IGLIORI, BARRY MOORE, AND RAAKHI ODEDRA // Part II Institutional and spatial aspects of information and knowledge flows // 5 Tacit knowledge in production systems: how important is geography? 87 - MERIC S. GERTLER // 6 The self-aware firm: information needs, acquisition strategies, and utilization prospects 112 - AMY GLASMEIER // 7 Theorizing the gendered institutional bases of innovative regional economies 129 // MIA GRAY AND AL JAMES // 8 Multinationals and transnational social space for // learning: knowledge creation and transfer through global R&D networks 157 - ALICE LAM // 9 Brain circulation and regional innovation: the Silicon Valley-Hsinchu-Shanghai triangle 190 - ANNALEE S AXENI AN // Part III Institutions and innovation systems // 10 National systems of production, innovation, and competence building 213 - BENGT-ÄKE LUNDVALL, BJÖRN JOHNSON, ESBEN S. ANDERSEN, AND BENT DALUM // 11 Perspectives on entrepreneurship and cluster formation: biotechnology in the US Capitol region 241 - MARYANN P. FELDMAN // 12 Facilitating enterprising places: the role of intermediaries in the United States and United Kingdom 261 - CHRISTIE BAXTER AND PETER TYLER // 13 Innovation, integration, and technology upgrading in contemporary Chinese industry 289 - EDWARD S. STEINFELD //

14 Society, community, and development: a tale of two regions 310 - MICHAEL STORPER, LENA LAVINAS, AND ALEJANDRO MERCADO-CÉLIS // Index 340