Interactive learning for innovation: a key driver within clusters and innovation systems

This volume highlights the importance of interactive, practice-based learningas a means to promote more thorough innovation dynamics in regional and national economies. Successful experiences in Scandanavia and southern European countries are examined, with insightful policy lessons extracted from each case. MARIO DAVIDE PARRILLI is Associate Professor in Economics and Director of PhD in Economics and Business Studies at the University of Deusto, Bilbao and San Sebastian, Spain, and Senior Research Fellow at the Basque Institute of Competitiveness, San Sebastian. He has been working on small and medium-sized enterprise development for many years as well as on territorial development, innovation systems and social capital. He has recently published SME cluster development (2007), and High-Technology, productivity and networks (2008). BJÖRN T. ASHEIM is Professor and Chair in Economic Geography at the Department of Human Geography, and Director at CIRCLE (Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy), Lund University, Sweden. He is an internationally renowned researcher within economic geography and regional innovation studies. In addition to numerous journal articles he has edited books on SMEs andRegional Innovation Policy (2003) and Clusters and regional development (2006). INDICE: Introduction - PART I: THEORETICAL INSIGHTS FROM THE LITERATURE ONSTI AND DUI - Innovation and Competence Building in the Learnign Economy: Implications for Innovation Policy; 'B. Lundvall' &' E. Lorenz' - Labour Market Institutions, Skills, and Innovation Style: a Critique of the Varieties of Capitalism perspective; 'E. Lorenz' - Organization and Innovation: The Topic of Creative Cities; 'B. Johnson' - The Knowledge Economy, Spillovers, Proximity andSpecialisation; 'P. Cooke' - PART II: CLUSTERS, FIRMS AND INNOVATION SYSTEMS - Combined and Complex Mode of Innovation in Regional Cluster Development: Analysis of the light-weight Material Cluster in Raufoss, Norway; 'A. Isaksen' &'J. Karlsen' - Facilitating Cluster Evolution in Peripheral Regions: the Role of Clusterpreneurs; 'J. Christensen' &' D. Stoerring' - Social Capital, Knowledge and Competitiveness: the case of the Basque Paper Cluster and the Electronics and ICT Cluster; 'J. Valdaliso, M. Aranguren, A. Elola' &' S. López' - Firm Heterogeneity and Trajectories of Learning: Applications and Relevant PolicyImplications; 'M. Aranguren, M. Larrea' &' M. Parrilli' - Innovation Capabilities and Learning as Arguments to Support R&D in Enterprises: Virtuous and Vicious Cycles; 'J. Hejis' - Typologies of Innovation Based on Statistical Analysis for European and Spanish Regions; 'M. Navarro' &' J. Gibaja' - Academia andPublic Policy: Towards the Co-generation of Kowledge and Learning Processes; 'M. Aranguren, M. Larrea' &' J. Wilson'

• ISBN: 978-0-230-29876-7
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 16/12/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés