Rethinking Regional Innovation and Change: Path Dependency or Regional BreakthroughGerhard Fuchs, Philip Shapira Springer Science & Business Media, 17/02/2006 - 324 من الصفحات Rethinking Regional Innovation and Change brings together papers from leading international scholars in the field of regional development and policy. The contributors examine the interactions between path-dependent developments, institutions, and governance structures that influence regional innovation capacity. Up-to-date case studies present diverse theoretical perspectives from economics, political science, geography, planning, and public policy.
" Taken as a whole, the volume offers a broad and up-to-date perspective on the inheritance aspect of an area's future. Without exception, the chapters are insightful, interesting and a pleasure to read. Let us hope that this excellent work will find its way to the desks of authorities in charge for regional policy. If anything, the book still urges policy makers to start from the simple piece of wisdom that regions tend to go from where they are coming. Paradoxically, it is from this very notion of path dependency that most regional breakthroughs can be expected. " (Gert-Jan Hospers, Regions, Volume 256, April 2005) |
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... practices in understanding regional innovation and change in developed societies . We seek to cast light both on the importance of eco- nomic - structural and institutional path dependencies as well as on the condi- tions under which ...
... practice . The joint starting points are considerations on how to frame and understand contemporary regional development . All contributions probe the assumption that there are both technological ( cf. Dosi , 1982 ) and regional ...
... practice can be transferred to catch - up regions and thus will generate new opportunities for development . It is apparent that regionally - developed assets that may be embedded in densely woven networks of interactive and exchange ...
... practice at the regional level is a crucial tool in ( re ) orientating regional development . Drawing on empirical information and theoretical interpretations , we suggest that there is an axis of regional development along which ...
... practices ( see Schon , 1983 ; Benz et . al . , 1998 ) through which policy action , while informed by wider theory and practice , is grounded in ( yet in many cases must also challenge ) the distinctiveness of regional conditions ...