Contents: 1. Introduction: Diversity, innovation and clusters - spatial perspectives / Irene Bernhard, Urban Gråsjö and … Urban Gråsjö -- 4. Inclusive place innovation as a means for local community regeneration / Irene Bernhard, Anna Karin … industrial PhD students and perceptions of their impact on firm innovation / Karin Berg and Maureen McKelvey -- 8. Globalizing …

This book addresses the role of cooperation, networks and institutions in the context of regional innovation systems …. It emphasises the importance of these factors in the emergence of local innovation systems, using detailed examples of … political perspective, and highlight the local mechanisms which are involved in the development of innovation systems. They …

pt. 1. Innovation, agglomeration and location -- pt. 2. Regional competition …

pt. 1. Innovation, entrepreneurship and clustering of high-tech. firms -- pt. 2. Case studies -- pt. 3. Cluster …