Innovation Networks and Learning Regions? (Regions and Cities) - Hardcover

Simme, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138410888 ISBN 13: 9781138410886

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Innovation, Networks and Learning Regions? address key issues of understanding in contemporary economic geography and local economic policy making in cities and regions in the advanced economies. Developing the idea that innovation is the primary driving force behind economic change and growth, the international range of contributors stress the importance of knowledge and information as the 'raw materials' of innovation. They examine the ways in which these elements may be acquired and linked through networks, and demonstrate that there are empirical examples of innovative areas which do not have highly developed networks yet appear to be relatively successful in terms of local economic growth. In so doing, they raise crucial questions about the ways in which regions or localities might be described as truly 'learning' areas, and about the sustainability of future economic and quality of life success based on innovation and high-technology.

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James Simme

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138410888
• ISBN 13: 9781138410886
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260