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Innovation And Regional Development 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

 

Proposed List of Contents

Foreword
Peter Idenburg

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction: Fostering Innovation and Regional Development for the Globalized Learning Economy
M. van Geenhuizen, D. V. Gibson and M. V. Heitor

PART I: EMERGING CONCEPTS

Chapter 2. Infrastructures for Innovation
K. Smith

Chapter 3. Pathways to Sustainability: Evolution or Revolution
N. Ashford

Chapter 4. New Approach to Innovation Dynamics
U. Kowol and G. Kuppers

PART II: TELECOM INFRASTRUCTURES - STRATEGIES AND IMPLICATIONS

Chapter 5. Bytes of Urban Planning: A Dutch Perspective
G. Cohen, M. van Geenhuizen and P. Nijkamp

Chapter 6. Telecommunications Technologies and Urban Developments: strategies in US Cities
R. Wilson and J. Horrigan

Chapter 7. Changing Homes and Cities Through the Use of ICT
H. Priemus

Chapter 8. Telecommunications Infrastructure Investment on Regional and Sectorial Growth
S. Yilmaz, K. Haynes and A. Dinc

Chapter 9. An Empirical Investigation of the Digital divide in the United States
D. Pelletiere and G.C. Rodrigo

PART III: METHODS AND ASSESSMENT FOR NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS

Chapter 10. Sharing Lessons Learned Across Developed and Emerging technology Regions
J. Nordskog, D. Gibson and E. Evens

Chapter 11. Design and Deployment of a Network of Change Agents for Industrial Innovation
M. Lipsett, R. Wahrhaftig, L.A. Kossobudzki and D. Mullan

Chapter 12. Innovation Theory, Cluster and Regional Innovation System of Chiang Mail/Lampoon Twin City
P. Chairatana and R. Vorrakitpokaton

Chapter 13. Fostering networks of excellence and S&T Competencies for Europe
P. Conceição and M. Heitor

PART IV: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND HIGH-TECH CLUSTERS

Chapter 14. Internet Innovations and Global Development
L.W. McNight, P. Cukor and J. Parker

Chapter 15. High-Tech Valleys in the Low Countries? Entrepreneurship, Incubators and Clusters in the Netherlands and Flanders
H. Bowman, T. Elfring and W. Hulsink

Chapter 16. Creating the Infrastructure: Practice in high technology in China
J. Wen and S. Kobayashi

Chapter 17. Information Management Systems for technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship: The Case of Aragon in Spain
A.M. Sanchez and M.P. Perez

Index

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