, Hans-Jürgen -- 1. Regional Development: A Practical Point of View -- 1.1 Innovation and Regional Development in the EEC …. Regional Development Potentials and Strategies for Strengthening Regional Innovation Capacities -- 3.1 Regional Development … Potentials and Innovation Capacities / Townroe, Peter M. -- 3.2 Industrial Innovation and Spatial Systems: The Impact of Producer …

innovation and growth in difficult times …

In a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, innovation and creative capacity lead to economic prosperity. Starting in … 2006, the Innovation Systems Research Network began a six year-long study on how city-regions in Canada were surviving and … thriving in a globalized world. That study resulted in the “Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City …

innovation, but marketers have tended to focus instead on consumers who show little resistance, despite these “early adopters … organizational behavior to bear on the attitudes and behaviors of the remaining 80 percent who resist innovation. The authors …

grassroots dynamism that was necessary for widespread, indigenous innovation. Most innovation wasn't driven by a few isolated …-being and the "good life" in a broader sense--was created by this mass innovation. Yet indigenous innovation and flourishing … weakened decades ago. In America, evidence indicates that innovation and job satisfaction have decreased since the late 1960s …

While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain … relating to the economics of innovation and technological change while revisiting the findings of a classic book. Central to … public and private sectors affects innovation. Other essays examine the practice of open research and how the diffusion of …

What drives innovation? How does it contribute to the growth of firms, industries, and economies? And do intellectual … property rights help or hurt innovation and growth? Uniquely combining microeconomics, macroeconomics, and theory with … to the complex process of innovation. By addressing all the major dimensions of innovation in a single text, Christine …

. Imitation can lead to innovation. But in order to grow innovatively, how do businesses decide what firms to imitate? And how do …