Local And Regional Systems Of Innovation

This volume is the third in a continuing series of studies on technological systems; it seeks to identify and address new sets of conceptual and methodological issues in analyzing innovation systems, particularly as regards the delimitation of relevant systems..Technological Systems in the Bio Industries The book makes an in-depth comparison of the biomedical clusters in Sweden and Ohio.

Evidence that firms innovate persistently has led previous studies to focus on the determinants of innovation persistence and on its heterogeneity across industries, technologies and countries.The Economics of Persistent Innovation: An Evolutionary View William Latham Christian Le Bas Persistence of firm innovative behavior became an important topic in applied industrial organization with the publication of the seminal empirical work of P. Geroski and his colleagues (1997).

Finally, we compare cluster dynamics and the institutional set-up in Europe and the U. However, empirical evidence regarding the microeconomic mechanisms of the `new economy' is scarce.S.

" (Gert-Jan Hospers, Regions, Volume 256, April 2005) Up-to-date case studies present diverse theoretical perspectives from economics, political science, geography, planning, and public policy.

Paradoxically, it is from this very notion of path dependency that most regional breakthroughs can be expected. 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..