Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries …

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 …

Demonstrates that the processes of innovation and technological change are spatially differentiated, both regionally … within countries and internationally between countries. This book also aims to broaden our understanding of the innovation …