Regional Innovation Systems

Thsi text introduces a newly developed theoretical and empirical construct of widespread interest to those concerned with industrial development on a regional scale. Set within a broadly evolutionary economics perspective, accounts are given of the systems interactions occurring between firms and the innovation support infrastructure. Cases are drawn worldwide from Asia, North America and Europe. Students and researchers will welcome this comprehensive treatment of regional innovation systems, a key concept in understanding regional and industrial development, which is a topic widely studied by geographers, economists and planners.