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 …

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 …

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 …

policies in the Netherlands / Jeroen van Haaren, Frank van Oort and Jan-Daan Maasland -- 7. Knowledge bases, innovation and … innovation. The critical case studies examined will also help public policy and regional policy makers"-- …