By Karen R. Polenske
ISBN-10: 0521689538
ISBN-13: 9780521689533
ISBN-10: 052186528X
ISBN-13: 9780521865289
This serious addition to the starting to be literature on innovation comprises wide analyses of the institutional and spatial points of innovation. Written by way of top students within the fields of financial geography, innovation experiences, making plans, and expertise coverage, the fourteen chapters disguise conceptual and size concerns in innovation and appropriate expertise regulations. The members study how various institutional elements facilitate or bog down the flows of data and data inside of and throughout agencies, areas, and countries. particularly, they supply insights into the jobs of vital associations comparable to gender and tradition that are usually ignored within the innovation literature, and reveal the most important position which geography performs within the innovation approach. associations and coverage measures which help entrepreneurship and cluster improvement also are mentioned. the result's a comparative photograph of the institutional elements underlying innovation structures around the globe.
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The success of regional “incubators,” such as Silicon Valley (Saxenian 1991), Route 128 in Massachusetts (Dorfman 1987), and the very successful textile complex in northern Italy (DeBresson 1996) suggest that there are lessons to be learned about the role of geographical proximity in supporting rapid innovation. Clustering can also be instructive at the micro level of the individual plant. For example, the proximity of automobile assemblers and their suppliers may be a key factor in the innovation process.
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ERSO Elections Research and Service Organization EU European Union FDA Food and Drug Administration FDI Foreign direct investment FMS Flexible manufacturing systems FRB Federal Reserve Bank FT Financial Times FY Fiscal Year GCI Geographic Coincidence (Concentration) Index GDP Gross domestic product GERD Gross expenditures on R&D GR Gene-Related GREMI Groupe de Recherche Europ´een sur les Millieux Innovateurs GSMC Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp GTDN Group for the Development of the Northeast HC Horizontal Clustering HCLQ Horizontal Clustering Location Quotient HGS Human Genome Sciences HHI Herfindahl – Hirschman index HP Hewlett-Packard HPAEs Highly-performing Asian economies IA Interfirm Alliance IBGE Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estat´ıstica ICs Integrated circuits List of abbreviations and acronyms ICSI ICT IDRP IKE ILO IMF INEGI INPI INSEE IPEA IPRs ISI ISLI ISSI ISRN ISTAT IT ITIs IUL IV JCL J-ICT JLL J-Pharma JPO JV KM LECs LGC LQ LSE M&As MAED MBI MERIT MERIT-CATI xxix Integrated Circuit Solution, Inc.