Regional Innovation Systems: The Role of Governances in a Globalized World / Edition 2

by Hans-Joachim Braczyk, Philip Cooke, Martin Heidenreich

Overview

Since the first edition of this book in 1995, there has been a worldwide innovation-led economic boom and a subsequent slump, meaning enormous change has also occurred at the level of regional economies. The new edition registers this change and provides an interesting test of the robustness of the original arguments in the book. Not least, more industrial policy making is influenced by the RIS analysis, and many national and regional governments have adopted RIS approaches, along with related instruments like promotion of industry clusters, academic entrepreneurship, regional venture capital and science-led development strategies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415303682
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/26/2004
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hans-Joachim Braczyk, Philip Cooke, Martin Heidenreich

Table of Contents

Part 1. Introduction. Part 2. Informal and Market-Driven Coordination: Grassroots Between Local and Global Reach. Part 3. Network-Like Governances: Driving Forces, Modes of Cohesion, and Means of Regional Polity. Part 4. The Leviathan Approach: Steering Innovation and Growth in Interregional Contexts by the State. Part 5. Conclusion -- Perspectives Governance Structures -- Persistency of Collective Orders and the Challenge of Local Learning in a Globalized World. Index.

Editorial Reviews

Emerging from a collaborative effort of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (U. of Wales-Cardiff) and the Centre for Technology Assessment in Baden-W<:u>ttemberg, 16 studies were presented at a conference in Stuttgart in Autumn 1995. They examine government efforts to improve the competitiveness of businesses in a region, usually by providing or upgrading infrastructures. They include case studies that demonstrate a wide spectrum of approaches as they have been undertaken around the world in industrialized and nonindustrialized countries. Distributed in the US by Taylor and Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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