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Record Nr.

UNISA996657768103316

Autore

Conteh Charles

Titolo

Mediating Innovation Policy Delivery : The Regional Innovation Centres of Ontario

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

9781487555269

1487555261

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (0 pages)

Soggetti

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Part One: Historical Overview and Conceptual Framework of Innovation Policy -- 2 Innovation in the Digital Age -- 3 Innovation Policy and the Ontario Experience -- 4 A Framework of Intermediary Institutions as Strategic Modular Network Platforms of Policy Delivery in Complex Systems -- Part Two: Five Cases of Regional Innovation Centres (RICs) as Spatially Embedded Platforms of Innovation Policy Delivery in Ontario -- 5 Innovation Factory: Thriving in the Belly of a Whale -- 6 TechAlliance: Carving a Niche in London’s Innovation Ecosystem -- 7 Innovate Niagara: Navigating the Jurisdictional Fissures of a Two-Tier Region -- 8 The Northern Centre for Advanced Technology (NORCAT): A Tech Gateway to Ontario’s North? -- 9 WEtech Alliance: In Search of Coherence in a Splintered Ecosystem -- 10 Comparing the RICs in Five Midsized Regions of Ontario: Triumphs, Tribulations, Conundrums, and Gaps -- Part Three: Where Do We Go from Here? -- 11 Policy Recommendations -- 12 Conclusion -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Using Ontario as a case study, this book sheds light on the delivery of innovation policy in politically complex environments.