Regional development and conditions for innovation in the network society
Building on the idea of inclusive learning, which entails a process of shared prosperity across the globe, this work looks at funamental changes at the start of the new milliennium, as innovation is gaining increasing importance for local economic prosperity and the emergence of learning societies.
Print Book, English, 2005
Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, Ind., 2005
ix, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9781557533555, 1557533555
58054981
Introduction : fostering innovation and regional development in the global learning economy / Marina van Geenhuizen, David V. Gibson and Manuel V. Heitor
Innovation infrastructures / Keith Smith
Pathways to sustainability : evolution or revolution? / Nicholas A. Ashford
Innovation networks : a new approach to innovation dynamics / Uli Kowol and Günter Küppers
Rethinking regional development : a changing spatial scene of innovation / Marina van Geenhuizen and Peter Nijkamp
ICT as a contributing factor to urban sustainable development : policymaking in Dutch cities / Galit Cohen, Marina van Geenhuizen and Peter Nijkamp
Telecommunications and urban development : evidence from the United States / Robert H. Wilson and John B. Horrigan
Changing homes and cities through the use of ICT / Hugo Priemus
Utilization of telecommunications infrastructure : efficiency considerations and output consequences in the United States / Serdar Yilmaz, Kingsley E. Haynes and Mustafa Dinc
The digital divide in the United States : measurement and policy issues / G. Chris Rodrigo and Danilo Pelletiere
Towards a different regional innovation policy : eight years of European experience through the European regional development fund innovative actions / Mikel Landabaso and Bénédicte Mouton
Mapping networks of excellence and S & T competencies for Europe : building on the Portuguese experience in evaluating research excellence / Pedro Conceiço and Manuel V. Heitor
Measuring and interpreting the knowledge economy of regions / Lambert van der Laan
Design and deployment of human infrastructure in systems of innovation / Morley S. Lipsett and Desmond Mullan
Entrepreneurship and innovation in emerging markets : venture capital and electronic commerce for development? / Lee W. McKnight and Jesse Parker
High-tech valleys in the Low Countries? : entrepreneurship, incubators and clusters in the Netherlands and Flanders / Harry Bouwman, Tom Elfring and Willem Hulsink