Format:
1 online resource (276 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415217309
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9780203428108
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy Series
Content:
This book examines local 'Islands of Innovation' where research and industrial expertise are concentrated, along with areas where traditional industrial regions have passed through a process of innovative restructuring
Note:
Book Cover -- Half -Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Globalisation and selective localisation of industry and innovation -- New challenges for governing complex industrial systems -- The role of government in innovation and industrial modernisation: Islands of Innovation and traditional locational... -- New tendencies in the international division of labour: globalisation and diversified networking -- The transcending of national factors for industrial development: participation of selected industrial locations and the... -- Globalisation's national impact: social and industrial change -- Economic space and regionalisation: hierarchical and vertical integration -- Governing the change: the reintroduction of national policy-making and industrial competences -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II Regionalisation and Islands of Innovation -- 2 Poly-centred innovation and governmental structures -- The regionalisation of national R& -- D policies: cases of uneven innovation -- Re-concentration of innovation and conditions for regional participation: Islands of Innovation -- Industrial structures matter: the case of biotechnology -- Research structures matter: AI and the role of science and pre-existing regional industry -- Internationalisation of regional development and the role of EU programmes for innovative collaboration -- Conclusions: tendencies for regionalisation in processes of increasing globalisation and specialisation of innovation -- Bibliography -- 3 Islands of Innovation in the UK economy -- The regionalisation of high-technology industries in the United Kingdom -- Biotechnology -- Aerospace -- Collaborative networks and the creation of an Archipelago Europe -- New fields of research and locational arrangements: the role of new research centres in biotechnology
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Localisation of industrial regions-more than a matter of geography -- Building a Scandinavian Island of Innovation: the Oresund -- The story of the bridge -- The competition with other technologies-why biotechnology? -- Pharmaceutical competence -- Industrial competencies -- Innovative specialisation as a basis for market success: the evolution of the industrial enzyme business -- Who is the father of the newborn baby? The competition among institutions -- Institution building as a skunk's work -- The advantage of specialisation and excellence: Medicon Valley Academy-a strategy of diffusion -- The Medicon Valley Academy from inside -- Conclusion: formation of industrial regions as restructualisation of industrial and scientific strengths -- Note -- Bibliography -- Websites -- 11 Regionalisation and de-industrialisation in Eastern Europe's transition economies -- Introduction -- Alignments of post-communist fragmentation at the European periphery -- Socio-economic aspects of de-industrialisation: consequences for the participation of Eastern Europe in globalised processes -- Innovative potentials in Eastern Europe -- Characteristics of the transition state and resulting constraints for the participation in regionalising globalisation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part V Conclusions -- 12 How the regional factor comes in -- A new way of policy making -- New ways of inducing socio-economic development: universities, industrial competencies and a new workforce -- The management of innovation: a new type of enterprise -- The extra-economic basis for innovation and economic development: traditions and competences -- How the regional factor comes in: the role of government policies -- Index
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The genesis of economic change -- Changing industry structure -- The consequences of adjustment -- Evidence of resilience -- Workforce needs of the new Pittsburgh economy -- Policy initiatives in the region -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8 Liguria -- Defence industries and old industries as the basis for restructuring -- Paths of participation in the global economy -- Preparing a traditional regional industry for future development: Fincantieri in the ship-building industry -- Forming an innovative enterprise based on traditional industrial competencies: the case of Elsag Bailey -- Innovative capabilities in an old industrial arrangement: Esaote as an example of a newly formed enterprise -- A territorial initiative: La Spedia -- Focal points of company restructuring in Liguria -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part IV Geographic periphery and advanced socio-economic development -- 9 Processes of peripherisation through international innovation systems -- Structural disadvantages of peripheral European locations -- Lack of modern industrial structures -- Lack of skilled labour for participating in advanced socio-economic development -- Lack of investment in R& -- D for modernising industrial structures -- Problems of participating in European innovation systems -- Insufficient techno-scientific collaboration and the role of European policies -- Industrial challenges and technological opportunities -- The demand for skilled labour and 'brain-drain' tendencies -- Peripherisation vs specialised participation -- Tendency for peripherisation through internationalisation of innovation -- Opportunities for specialised participation in peripheral locations -- Conclusion: the role of diversity in a triade-dominated international economy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 10 Competencies and opportunities
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Tradition and networking: the role of aerospace companies and DERA in the regionalisation of innovation -- An evaluation of innovative networks in aerospace and biotechnology -- Public policy and technology development -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4 Selective performance amid government failure -- Specifics of the industrial structure and continuing regional disparities -- Regionalism in innovation and regionalisation of development -- National and regional innovation policy until the mid-1990s -- The innovation policy of the central state -- A new role of regions and a wide spectrum of regional innovation policy -- New initiatives in the innovation policy -- Fostering the information society -- New initiatives in the regional innovation policy -- Conclusion: limits of a segmented innovation policy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Island of Innovation and clustering decisions of US high-tech firms -- Location and clustering decisions of US high-tech firms: theory, evidence, and patterns -- Islands of Innovation -- Regionalisation of innovation: theory -- Innovative clustering: evidence -- Islands of Innovation: patterns -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Part III Restructuring old industrialised locations -- 6 Old and traditional industrial regions on the Archipelago Europe -- Industrial history and innovative capability: traditional and old industrial regions on the Archipelago Europe -- The selection process of modern industrial development: old industrial regions transforming into Islands of Innovation -- How to transform into an Island of Innovation: the role of government policies -- Towards renewed structures -- Towards a continuation of established economy -- Conclusions: innovative restructuring and industrial history -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 Dynamics of growth and restructuring in the Pittsburgh metropolitan region -- Introduction
Additional Edition:
Print version Hilpert, Ulrich Regionalisation of Globalised Innovation Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2003 ISBN 9780415217309
Language:
English
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