Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation

Edited by Richard Shearmu, Christophe Carrincazeaux and David Doloreux

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The geography of innovation is changing. First, it is increasingly understood that innovative firms and organizations exhibit a wide variety of strategies, each being differently attuned to diverse geographic contexts. Second, and concomitantly, the idea that cities, clusters and physical proximity are essential for innovation is evolving under the weight of new theorizing and empirical evidence. In this Handbook we gather 28 chapters by scholars with widely differing views on what constitutes the geography of innovation. The aim of the Handbook is to break with the many ideas and concepts that emerged during the course of the 1980s and 1990s, and to fully take into account the new reality of the internet, mobile communication technologies, personal mobility and globalization. This does not entail the rejection of well-established and supported ideas, but instead allows for a series of new ideas and authors to enter the arena and provoke debate.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Innovations and Technology; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
ISBN: 9781784710767
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Regional innovation, R&D and knowledge spillovers: the role played by geographical and non-geographical factors , pp 22-44

Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argiles

Ch 2 Regional innovation systems: past – present – future , pp 45-62

Bjørn Asheim, Markus Grillitsch and Michaela Trippl

Ch 3 Understanding and learning from an evolving geography of innovation , pp 63-87

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Callum Wilkie

Ch 4 The cultural embeddedness of regional innovation: a Bourdieuian perspective , pp 88-99

Ben Spigel

Ch 5 Proximity dynamics and the geography of innovation: diminishing returns or renewal? , pp 100-122

Marie Ferru and Alain Rallet

Ch 6 Relatedness and the geography of innovation , pp 127-141

Pierre-Alexandre Balland

Ch 7 How do firms acquire knowledge in different sectoral and regional contexts? , pp 142-154

Franz Tödtling and Michaela Trippl

Ch 8 Clusters initiatives, open innovation and knowledge bases , pp 155-168

Heidi Wiig and Arne Isaksen

Ch 9 Innovation and creativity in city-regions , pp 174-186

David A. Wolfe

Ch 10 Intelligent cities and the evolution toward technology-enhanced, global and user-driven territorial systems of innovation , pp 187-200

Nicos Komninos

Ch 11 Geography, skills and career patterns at the boundary of creativity and innovation: digital technology and creative arts graduates in the UK , pp 201-218

Roberta Comunian, Alessandra Faggian and Sarah Jewell

Ch 12 Four commonly held beliefs about the geography of scientific activities , pp 223-240

Michel Grossetti, Denis Eckert, Marion Maisonobe and Josselin Tallec

Ch 13 Putting the boot into creative cluster theory , pp 241-254

Chris Gibson and Chris Brennan-Horley

Ch 14 Beyond networks in clusters , pp 255-265

Franz Huber and Rune Fitjar

Ch 15 Suburban creativity and innovation , pp 266-276

Alison Bain

Ch 16 Innovation in peripheral regions , pp 277-286

Arne Isaksen and James Karlsen

Ch 17 Regional economic development: institutions, innovation and policy , pp 292-308

Neil Bradford and Allison Bramwell

Ch 18 Revisiting the role of policy in regional innovation systems , pp 309-321

Elvira Uyarra and Kieron Flanagan

Ch 19 Evolution of regional innovation systems in China: insights from emerging indigenous innovation in Shenzhen , pp 322-333

Chun Yang

Ch 20 Entrepreneurial regions in theory and policy practice , pp 334-350

Helen Lawton Smith

Ch 21 The Internet: its geography, growth and the creation of (digital) social capital , pp 356-369

Emmanouil Tranos

Ch 22 The geography and structure of global innovation networks: global scope and regional embeddedness , pp 370-381

Cristina Chaminade, Claudia De Fuentes, Gouya Harirchi and Monica Plechero

Ch 23 Migration and innovation: a survey of recent studies , pp 382-398

Stefano Breschi, Francesco Lissoni and Claudia Noumedem Temgoua

Ch 24 The geography of innovation in multinational companies: internal distribution and external embeddedness , pp 399-414

Jannika Mattes

Ch 25 Growth with inequality? The local consequences of innovation and creativity , pp 419-431

Neil Lee

Ch 26 Why local development and local innovation are not the same thing: the uneven geographic distribution of innovation-related development , pp 432-446

Richard Shearmur

Ch 27 Cultural creation and social innovation as the basis for building a cohesive city , pp 447-462

Juan-Luis Klein and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay

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