Innovation governance in an open economy : shaping regional nodes in a globalized world / / edited by Annika Rickne, Staffan Laestadius and Henry Etzkowitz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791942103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-136-32653-7; 1-280-66512-2; 9786613642059; 0-203-12130-9; 1-136-32654-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Collana: Regions and cities ; ; 56
• Altri autori (Persone): EtzkowitzHenry <1940->; LµstadiusStaffan; RickneAnnika <1966->
• Disciplina: 338.064; 338.9485
• Soggetti: Regional planning - Sweden; Technological innovations - Economic aspects - Sweden; Diffusion of innovations - Sweden; Business and education - Sweden; Organizational learning; Sweden Economic policy Case studies
• 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: Cover; Innovation Governance in an Open Economy; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; 1. Regional governance in global innovation processes; 2. The theoretical foundation for Swedish innovation policy; 3. "Spaces": A triple helix governance strategy for regional innovation; 4. Regional dynamics in non-metropolitan hi-tech clusters: A longitudinal study of two Nordic regions; 5. Regional strength in global competition: Collaborative patterns for life science firms in; 6. Between the regional and the global: Regional innovation systems ; policy and industrial knowledge formation7. Regional policy as change management: Theoretical discussion and empirical illustrations; 8. Constructing an innovation policy agency: The case of the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems; 9. Policy scripts and practice; 10. Can regional innovation systems be "constructed"?; 11. Gender in governance of regional innovation: Why gender matters and is mainstreamed in the Swedish case; 12. Entrepreneurship and public policy in emerging clusters; 13. The "start-up factor": Regional innovation policy convergence between the US and Sweden14. Lessons on regional innovation governance in open economies; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In an increasingly globalised world, paradoxically regional innovation clusters have moved to the forefront of attention as a strategy for economic and social development. Transcending international success cases, like Silicon Valley and Route 128, as sources of lessons, successful high tech clusters in niche areas have had a significant impact on peripheral regions. Are these successful innovation clusters born or made? If they are subject to planning and direction, what is the shape that it takes: top down, bottom up or lateral?