Philip Cooke / Dafna Schwartz (eds.)

Creative Regions

Technology, Culture and Knowledge Entrepreneurship
Herausgeber: Cooke, Philip; Schwartz, Dafna

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."

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Creative Regions is an essential reading on how to generate a competitive advantage for regions in the knowledge economy in the global market.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 164mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780415434287
• ISBN-10: 0415434289
• Artikelnr.: 22821019

Autorenporträt

Philip Cooke is University Research Professor in Regional Development and founding Director (1993) of the Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff. He is a partner in Cardiff's ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Analysis of Genomics (CESAGen) and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Aalborg, Denmark. Dafna Schwartz is a senior faculty member at the Department of Business Administration at Ben-Gurion University (Israel), head of the area of Entrepreneurship and High-Tech Management and director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship and High-Tech Management. She is an economic consultant in Israel and abroad and a board member of leading Israeli corporations.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Regional Innovation Systems 1. The Regionalization of Knowledge:
The Territorial Basis of Development 2. Creative Regions and Globalising
Social Capital - Connecting Foreign ICT Experts to Finnish Innovation
Environments 3. Connectivity and Co-Location in Innovation Processes of
Dutch Firms 4. On Strengthening the Knowledge Base of Knowledge-Intensive
SMEs in Less-Favoured Regions in Finland Part 2: Cluster Evolution, Variety
and Policy 5. Regional Innovation Clusters: Evaluation of the South East
Brabant Cluster Scheme 6. Cluster Emergence: A Comparative Study of Two
Cases in North Jutland, Denmark 7. The Knowledge-Space Dynamic in the
British Biotechnology Industry: Function, Relation, and Association 8.
Cultural and Creative Industries in Places of 'High Culture' - The Case of
the Art City of Florence 9. Reflections on Innovative Alliances Involving
Technological Science and the Creative Industry - A Case Study Involving
the Roskilde Region and Musicon Valley Part 3: Knowledge Transfer, R&D
Outsourcing, Open Innovation 10. Research, Knowledge and Open Innovation:
Spatial Impacts upon Organization of Knowledge-Intensive Industry Clusters
11. The Outsourcing of Knowledge Production and its Implications for
Regional Path Dependence 12. Creativity and Openness: Outsourcing of
Knowledge Intensive Services as a Challenge for Innovation Systems in a
Metropolitan Region 13. Boundary Spanning and the 'Knowledge Community'