1st Edition

Regional Innovation Strategies The Challenge for Less-Favoured Regions

Edited By Kevin Morgan, Claire Nauwelaers Copyright 2002
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

Regional Innovation Strategies offers the first comprehensive analysis of the new wave of innovation-oriented regional policies. It draws conclusions from the European Regional Technology Plans and Regional Innovation Strategies, both in old industrialised areas and in regions where development is slow, and compares this with US and Canadian experiences. Anticipating the enlargement of the EU,... Read more
1. A Regional Perspective on Innovation: From Theory to Strategy. 2. Developing Regional Innovation Strategies: The European Commission as Animateur. 3. Towards a Knowledge-Intensive Economy: The RTP Process in Limburg. 4. Creating a Regional Innovation Policy in Lorraine. 5. Learning Through Strategy-Making - The RTP in Wales. 6. The "Innovative Region" Strategy: Lessons from the Central Macedonia Regional Technology Plan. 7. Regional Innovation Strategies: The Key Challenges for Castilla y Leon as one of Europe's Less-Favoured Regions. 8. From Planned Economy to Global Markets: The RITTS Project in South Brandenburg. 9. Prospects for Building Technology Policy in Central and Eastern Europe. 10. Regional Technology and Innovative Strategies in the United States: Small Steps, High Expectations. Regional Innovation Strategies in Quebec: The Bas-Saint-Laurent Region. 12. The New Wave of Innovation-Oriented Regional Policies: Retrospect and Prospects.

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Kevin Morgan, Claire Nauwelaers