Rethinking Regional Innovation and Change Path Dependency or Regiona
To what extent can regions diverge from established paths of economic development? Are their futures determined by institutional and industrial structures that may be hundreds of years old or do innovations, transfers, and adaptations of knowledge, techno
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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
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