The critical message of this book is that in the current context of global change, local and national territories have to upgrade their resilience in terms of improving both their competitiveness and capability to innovate.
Localized creativity, small high-tech entrepreneurship, related innovation platforms, social capital embedded in dynamically open territorial communities and context-specific though continuously upgrading policy platforms are all means to face new challenges and to promote increased absorptive capacity within local and national territories. The contributors illustrate that these capabilities are much needed in the current globalized economy as a path towards sustainability and for creating new opportunities for their inhabitants. They analyse the challenges and development prospects of local/regional production systems internally, across territories, and in terms of their potential and territorial connectivity which can help exploit opportunities for proactive policy actions. This is increasingly relevant in the current climate, in which the balanced allocation of resources and opportunities, particularly for SMEs, cannot be expected to be the automatic result of the working of the market.
Exploring conceptual and methodological aspects, and documenting original accounts of innovative territories, this book will be of great interest to academics, students and researchers within the fields of economics, industrial organization, and technology and innovation.
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The Innovation Index: Measuring the UK’s Investment in Innovation and its Effects
Stian Westlake, Brian MacAulay, Peter Gratzke, Albert Bravo Biosca, Hasan Bakhshi
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Territorial Benchmarking Methodology: The Need to Identify Reference Regions
Mikel Navarro, Juan José Gibaja Martíns, Susana Franco Rodríguez, Asier Murciego Alonso
págs. 99-133
Innovative Regions: Strategic Spaces for Development
págs. 137-149
New Policy Approaches to Develop Innovative Territories: Developing Trust and Behavioral Additionality in Gipuzkoa
págs. 150-165
New Focus of Economic Reactivation in Spain: Creative Industries in the Basque Country
págs. 166-184
Assessing Country Competitiveness: The Case of Spain
págs. 185-212
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Heterogeneous Social Capitals: A New Window of Opportunity for Local Economies
págs. 230-245
China: Beyond the Global Production Line
págs. 246-273
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Conceptualisations, Relationships and Trends between Innovation, Competitiveness and Development: Industrial Policy Beyond the Crisis
págs. 295-312
Regional Policy: What (it seems) we have Learned from Some European Experiences
págs. 313-332
Cities in Times of Economic Crisis: A Challenge for Local Governments
págs. 335-363
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A Participatory Methodology for Evaluating the Cluster Policy of the Basque Country
Cristina Aragón Amonarriz, Mari Jose Aranguren, Cristina Iturrioz Landart, James Ralph Wilson
págs. 382-402
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