Local and Regional Systems of Innovation

1. Quo Vadis?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 325-325

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   2. Some Lessons and Challenges for Model Builders, Data Gatherers and Other Tribes

      • John de la Mothe, Gilles Paquet

      Pages 327-334

2. Back Matter

   Pages 335-342

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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.

• Economic Development
• Forschung & Entwicklung
• economic growth
• growth
• innovation

• University of Ottawa, Canada

  John Mothe, Gilles Paquet

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