Knowledge Externalities, Innovation Clusters and Regional Development - Couverture rigide

 
9781847201201: Knowledge Externalities, Innovation Clusters and Regional Development
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1847201202 ISBN 13 : 9781847201201
Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

This book begins with a theoretical examination of regional innovation systems, agglomeration economics and knowledge spillovers, before going on to examine the same concepts within an empirical framework. Special emphasis is given to the importance of proximity in the formation of regional innovation systems. It concludes by considering innovation and human capital as determinants of regional economic growth.

The concept of knowledge spillovers is used within the book to explain a number of major economic phenomena, including the geographical clustering of inventions; the social returns to R&D that significantly exceed private returns; and the sizeable disproportions that exist between firms in terms of their R&D inputs and outputs. The contributors identify that small firms are responsible for far more product innovations than large firms relative to their measurable knowledge resources. The book also stresses the importance of a catch-up mechanism that sees technological improvement as the combination of two distinct types of activity: innovation and imitation. In this way, the impact of human capital and other types of knowledge acquisition on economic growth is measured. The conclusions of the contributors are invaluably oriented to policy implications.

This book will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students of regional science and innovation and knowledge, as well as policymakers.

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À propos de l?auteur

Edited by Jordi Suriñach, Rosina Moreno and Esther Vayá, AQR Research Group – IREA, University of Barcelona, Spain

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Éditeur
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1847201202
ISBN 13 
9781847201201
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Éditeur
Suriñach Jordi, Moreno Rosina, Vayá Esther
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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