Author(s): Roel Rutten, Frans Boekema
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 301
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Figures and tables......Page 7
About the editors......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 13
1. The learning region: foundations, state of the art, future......Page 15
PART I Foundations......Page 27
2. Regional ‘worlds’ of production: learning and innovation in the technology districts of France, Italy and the USA......Page 29
3. Toward the learning region......Page 72
4. Industrial districts as ‘learning regions’: a condition for prosperity......Page 85
5. The learning region: institutions, innovation and regional renewal......Page 115
PART II State of the Art......Page 139
6. The learning region: a conceptual anatomy......Page 141
7. Knowledge and the competitiveness of places......Page 157
8. Regional innovation networks......Page 174
9. Regional innovation systems, asymmetric knowledge and the legacies of learning......Page 198
10. Localized learning and social capital......Page 220
11. Learning about innovation in Europe’s regional policy......Page 245
12. The learning region: a constructive critique......Page 266
PART III Future......Page 287
13. A future for the learning region......Page 289
Index......Page 307
