Regional Innovation Strategies: The Challenge for Less-Favoured Regions (Regional Development and Public Policy Series)

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
LIST OF TABLES......Page 8
LIST OF FIGURES......Page 9
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 15
INTRODUCTION......Page 19
THE SOCIO-SPATIAL DYNAMICS OF INNOVATION2......Page 22
RETHINKING PUBLIC POLICY: THE STATE AS ANIMATEUR......Page 29
NOTES......Page 35
INTRODUCTION......Page 36
FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE: WHY A REGIONAL INNOVATION STRATEGY?......Page 40
STRUCTURAL FUNDS AND INNOVATION: THE POLICY CONTEXT......Page 42
THE GENESIS OF REGIONAL INNOVATION STRATEGY IN THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION......Page 47
From RTD to Innovation Promotion......Page 51
of Economic Efficiency .........Page 52
‘Co-opetition’ as a Response......Page 53
NOTES......Page 55
THE LIMBURG REGION......Page 57
 The Province’s Innovation ‘Territory’......Page 58
Regional Context for Innovation......Page 60
GENESIS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE RTP......Page 62
THE RTP PROCESS......Page 63
From the Finish Onwards......Page 65
The Role of Large Companies......Page 66
Looking Back......Page 67
Cross-National Cooperation......Page 68
Use of Foreign Experts......Page 69
MAIN RESULTS AND MAIN LESSONS FROM THE RTP LIMBURG......Page 70
The Challenges Ahead......Page 72
THE LORRAINE REGION......Page 74
Institutional Context......Page 75
The Support for Innovation......Page 77
GENESIS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE RTP......Page 79
THE RTP PROCESS......Page 80
The RTP Activities......Page 82
The Output of the RTP......Page 87
The RTP Process......Page 88
THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION......Page 89
MAIN RESULTS AND MAIN LESSONS FROM THE RTP......Page 90
Life After RTP in Lorraine......Page 91
NOTES......Page 94
THE ECONOMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT IN WALES......Page 95
THE GENESIS OF THE RTP IN WALES......Page 98
RTP STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT IN WALES......Page 100
Organisation and Structure of the RTP in Wales......Page 101
The RTP Process in Wales......Page 102
Assessing the RTP Process in Wales......Page 105
CONCLUSIONS......Page 108
NOTES......Page 109
6 The Innovative-Region Strategy: Lessons from the Central Macedonia Regional Technology Plan......Page 111
THE REGIONAL TECHNOLOGY PLAN (RTP) OF CENTRAL MACEDONIA......Page 113
Setting Up the Regional Technology Plan......Page 114
The Regional Productive and Innovation Systems......Page 116
Innovation Support Strategy......Page 120
The Action Plan......Page 124
Implementation......Page 126
THE INNOVATIVE REGION STRATEGY: LESSONS FROM THE RTP EXERCISE......Page 127
Recognition of the Actual Interests of the Partners......Page 128
Clarifying the Meaning of Consensus......Page 129
Assessment of the Actually Existing Capacities......Page 130
Management and Implementation......Page 131
NOTES......Page 132
ured Regions .........Page 133
THE REGIONAL CONTEXT FOR INNOVATION......Page 138
GENESIS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE RTP......Page 140
THE RTP PROCESS......Page 143
RESULTS AND LESSONS FROM THE RTP......Page 147
THE SOUTH BRANDENBURG REGION......Page 151
THE ORIGINS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE RITTS PROJECT......Page 153
THE REGIONAL CONTEXT FOR INNOVATION......Page 154
The SME Needs Analysis......Page 158
The Supply Analysis: Institutional Shake-up......Page 163
THE RITTS PROCESS OF REGIONAL STRATEGY-BUILDING......Page 165
Defining the Priority Actions and Implementation......Page 166
THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION......Page 167
THE MAIN RESULTS AND LESSONS LEARNT......Page 168
NOTES......Page 171
9 Prospects for Building Technology Policy in Central and Eastern Europe1......Page 172
Regional Aspects of Socialist Heritage......Page 173
Regional Innovation Systems and Socialist Heritage......Page 177
TAPPING THE POTENTIAL: THE RTC INFRASTRUCTURE......Page 178
From Branch-Oriented to Regional RTD Infrastructure......Page 179
BUILDING CAPACITIES FOR ACTION: COORDINATION FAILURES AND SOCIAL CAPITAL FOR RTP IN CEE......Page 182
From the Specific to the General: Supporting the Process of Collective Action at the Regional Level......Page 186
The Problem with Policy Rationale for RTP......Page 187
CONCLUSIONS......Page 188
NOTES......Page 189
10 Regional Technology and Innovation Strategies in the United States: Small Steps, High Expectations......Page 190
REGIONAL (MULTI-STATE) STRATEGIES: USING THE POWER OF PERSUASION......Page 197
The Story of North Carolina: A Round-up of High-tech Plants......Page 199
Forming a State Coordinating Body: The North Carolina Alliance for Competitive Technologies (NCACTs)......Page 201
The Story of Virginia: Building a High-tech Image, Achieving a High-tech Presence......Page 204
Design Programmes to Be Demand-Driven......Page 208
Obtain High-Level Endorsement, Scale, and Sufficient Time......Page 209
Measure Impacts......Page 210
CONCLUSION......Page 211
THE CANADIAN AND QUEBEC CONTEXT......Page 212
Indicators of the Level of Competitiveness......Page 213
The Bas-Saint-Laurent Region: Economic and Geographic Characteristics......Page 214
The Federal Approach......Page 217
ORIGIN OF THE REGIONAL STRATEGY......Page 218
THE BAS-SAINT-LAURENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY REGIONAL STRATEGY......Page 219
Research and Development in the Region......Page 220
Propositions Concerning the Strategy......Page 223
Networks......Page 225
The Biomass By-products Network......Page 226
Funding......Page 227
CONCLUSION......Page 228
The Leadership of the Private Sector......Page 231
A Cultural Change and Conflicting Visions......Page 232
NOTES......Page 234
12 The New Wave of Innovation-Oriented Regional Policies: Retrospect and Prospects......Page 235
THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE STATE: PROMOTING REGIONAL DIALOGUE......Page 236
SUBSIDIARITY AND COOPERATION: TOWARDS MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE......Page 238
 AN INTERACTIVE PERSPECTIVE ON INNOVATION SUPPORT POLICIES......Page 240
ENDOGENOUS-EXOGENOUS BALANCE IN THE DESIGN OF REGIONAL INNOVATION STRATEGIES......Page 243
A CONTINUOUS POLICY-MAKING PROCESS: THE TEMPORAL DIMENSION......Page 245
CONCLUSION: REGIONAL INNOVATION STRATEGIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY......Page 246
NOTE......Page 248
REFERENCES......Page 249
INDEX......Page 258