pt. 1. Urban creativity and growth -- pt. 2. Cities, innovation and productivity -- pt. 3. Urban systems …, infrastructure and sustainable development. … of this process. Forces that are driving city growth include agglomeration spillovers, concentration of innovation and …

1. Competitiveness and national technology systems : an introduction -- 2. The relative competitive and technological …This unique study draws on extensive fieldwork assessing technology systems in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and … Zimbabwe in the context of their export competitiveness. Its emphasis is on the role of technology systems in building …

doing, provides the means for better understanding technology transaction processes in general, and auctions in particular … be designed for effective distributed innovation processes. He concludes that the auction mechanism is a viable …

strongly appeal to policy-makers in science, technology and innovation policy. It will also benefit students and academics … interested in innovation, science, technology and innovation policy, the economics of innovation, as well as the history and … dynamics around a given technology are influenced by the way entrepreneurs and others package the technology, how governments …

pioneers in art, technology and science have gathered and developed their special abilities. In light of ongoing social and …

Verspagen (2002), 'Technology-Gaps, Innovation-Diffusion and Transformation: An Evolutionary Interpretation', Research Policy …, new applications of evolutionary thought in finance, economic geography and ecological economics …-48 -- Joel Mokyr (1998), 'Induced Technical Innovation and Medical History: An Evolutionary Approach', Journal of Evolutionary …

identify ways to improve infrastructure procurement processes. Focusing on urbanization as a driver of innovation in …Contents: 1. Infrastructure provision -- 2. Why is infrastructure of such significance? -- 3. The evolution of … infrastructure services -- 4. The promise of public private partnerships -- 5. Implementing a partnership agenda -- 6. Risk analysis …