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Regional Development And Conditions For Innovation In The Network Society

 

Editors: Marina van Geenhuizen, David V. Gibson and Manuel V. Heitor QUORUM Books Series on "Technology Policy and Innovation", Volume 6

 

Table of Contents

Foreword
    Peter Idenburg

Chapter 1. Introduction: Fostering Innovation and Regional Development for the Global Learning Economy
    Marina van Geenhuizen and Manuel V. Heitor

PART I: EMERGING CONCEPTS

Chapter 2. Infrastructures for Innovation
    Keith Smith

Chapter 3. Pathways to Sustainability: Evolution or Revolution?
    Nicholas A. Ashford

Chapter 4. Innovation Networks: A New Approach to Innovation Dynamics
    Uli Kowol and Günter Küppers

Chapter 5. Rethinking Regional Development: A Changing Spatial Scene of Innovation
    Marina van Geenhuizen and Peter Nijkamp

PART II: TELECOM INFRASTRUCTURES – STRATEGIES AND IMPLICATIONS

Chapter 6. ICT as a Contributing Factor to Urban Sustainable Development: Policy Making in Dutch Cities
    Galit Cohen, Marina van Geenhuizen, and Peter Nijkamp

Chapter 7. Telecommunications and Urban Development: Evidence from the US
    Robert H. Wilson and John Horrigan

Chapter 8. Changing Homes and Cities through the Use of ICT
    Hugo Priemus

Chapter 9. Utilization of Telecommunications Infrastructure: Efficiency Considerations and Output Consequences in the States of the US
    Serdar Yilmaz, Kingsley E. Haynes, and Mustafa Dinc

Chapter 10. The Digital Divide in the United States: measurement and policy issues
    G. Chris Rodrigo and Danilo Pelletiere

PART III: CONDITIONS FOR INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND HIGH-TECH CLUSTERS

Chapter 11. Towards new regional innovation policies: 8 years of European experience through innovative actions
    Mikel Landabaso and Bénédicte Mouton

Chapter 12. Mapping Networks of Excellence and S&T Competencies for Europe: Building on the Portuguese Experience in Evaluating Research Excellence
    Pedro Conceição and Manuel V. Heitor

Chapter 13. Measuring the knowledge economy of regions
    Lambert van der Laan

Chapter 14. Human Infrastructure for Industrial Innovation
    Morley S. Lipsett, Ramiro Wahrhaftig, Luiz André Kossobudzki, and Desmond Mullan

Chapter 15. Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained? Venture Capital, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets
    Lee W. McKnight and Jesse Parker

Chapter 16. High-Tech Valleys in the Low Countries? Entrepreneurship, Incubators and Clusters in the Netherlands and Flanders
    Harry Bouwman, Tom Elfring and Wim Hulsink

Index

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