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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461495803321

Titolo

Innovation, technology and knowledge / / edited by Charlie Karlsson, Borje Johansson and Roger R. Stough

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-45938-8

9786613459381

1-136-61952-6

0-203-61533-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in global competition ; ; 55

Altri autori (Persone)

JohanssonB (Borje)

KarlssonCharlie <1945->

StoughRoger

Disciplina

338.94

Soggetti

Economic development - European Union countries

Technological innovations - European Union countries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Innovation, Technology and Knowledge; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction: innovation, technology and knowledge: Charlie Karlsson, Börge Johansson and Roger R. Stough; PartI: Systems of innovation; 2. Three stories about national systems of innovation: Alina Lidén; 3. Innovation, productivity and export evidence from Italy: Roberto Antoniettiand Giulio Cainelli; 4. Profiting from the breakthrough: technology commercialisation in the global age: Samantha Sharpe

5. Innovation and regional disparities - a survey of regional growth drivers and economic performance: Andreas P. Cornett and Nils Karl Sørensen6. Knowledge integration and network structure: modelling innovation activity: Piergiuseppe Moroneand Richard Taylor; 7. Proximity, innovation, and success within Free/Libre Open Source Software development projects: Nicola Bellantuono, Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo andBarbara Scozzi; 8. Knowledge creation and innovation



in medium-technology clusters: Riccardo Cappellin; PartII: Innovations in regions

9. Invention, innovation and regional growth in Swedish regions: Olof Ejermo and Urban Gråsjö10. Intangible assets and MNEs' locational strategies for innovation - or: why the regional matters: empirical insights from Germany and the UK: Jan-PhilippKramer, Javier Revilla Diez,Elisabetta Marinelli and Simona Iammarino; 11. High technology and regions in an era of open innovation: Darrene Hackler; 12. Regional innovation, growth and convergence-divergence patterns in the EU: George Petrakos and George Anastasiou; PartIII: Social capital and innovations

13. A social capital approach to regional transformation: Marina Jogmark14. A multidimensional perspective on the role of social capital in innovation: Soogwan Doh; 15.The potential of place: using location to attract global talent: Kathrine Richardson, Richard Florida andKevin Stolarick; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the last four decades the developed economies have developed into veritable knowledge economies at the same time as more and more economies have entered the road to economic development. Typical for the developments during this time has been substantially increased investments in research and development (R&D) to generate new knowledge and new technologies and increased investments in diffusing existing knowledge by means of education and thereby raising the volume of human capital. However, many member states and regions within the EU are struggling with their economic dev