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Economics of Science‚ Technology and Innovation VOLUME 30

Series Editors Cristiano Antonelli‚ University of Torino‚ Italy Bo Carlsson‚ Case Western Reserve University‚ U.S.A.

Editorial Board: Steven Klepper‚ Carnegie Mellon University‚ U.S.A. Richard Langlois‚ University of Connecticut‚ U.S.A. J.S. Metcalfe‚ University of Manchester‚ U.K. David Mowery‚ University of California‚ Berkeley‚ U.S.A. Pascal Petit‚ CEPREMAP‚ France Luc Soete‚ Maastricht University‚ The Netherlands

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

Economics of Science‚ Technology and Innovation

RETHINKING REGIONAL INNOVATION AND CHANGE: PATH DEPENDENCY OR REGIONAL BREAKTHROUGH

edited by

GERHARD FUCHS

and PHILIP SHAPIRA

Springer

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CONTENTS List of Figures

vii

List of Tables

viii

Contributors

ix

Preface

xi

Acknowledgments

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Beyond path dependency and competitive convergence: Institutional transfer from a discourse-analytical perspective Christoph Scherrer

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Tacit knowledge‚ path dependency and local trajectories of growth Meric S. Gertler

23

Regional transformation and regional disequilibrium: New knowledge economies and their discontents Philip Cooke

43

Switching ties‚ recombining teams: Avoiding lock-in through project organization? Gernot Grabher

63

Knowledge-intensive services as a key sector for processes of regional economic innovation: Leapfrogging and path dependency Hans Joachim Kujath

85

Entrepreneurship as a source of path dependency Udo Staber

7. Geographical proximity and the diffusion of knowledge. The case of SME’s in biotechnology Delphine Gallaud and André Torre

107

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Continuities‚ ruptures‚ and re-bundling of regional development paths: Leipzig’s metamorphosis Harald Bathelt and Jeff Boggs

147

Can less favored regions change their destiny? Lessons from Europe Lena J. Tsipouri

171

Innovation challenges and strategies in catch-up regions Philip Shapira

195

Path dependency in Baden-Württemberg: Lock-in or breakthrough? Gerhard Fuchs and Sandra Wassermann

223

Rethinking regional innovation policy Ron Boschma

249

On the role of global demand in local innovation processes Anders Malmberg and Dominic Power

273

The regionalization of innovation policy: New options for regional change? Knut Koschatzky

291

Index

313

LIST OF FIGURES 8.1

Relationships between regions and technological trajectories 8.2 Sequence of events leading from crisis to re-bundling 8.3 Firms of Le