Creative Regions: Technology, Culture and Knowledge Entrepreneurship

✍ Scribed by Philip Cooke, Dafna Schwartz

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 313
• Series: Regions and Cities
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This unique book focuses on regional creativity, analysing the different factors that can affect creativity and innovation process within regions in the knowledge economy. Approaching creativity from technological, organizational and regional viewpoints, it attempts to break down the influence of oppositional approaches and take account of multi-level interactions in economy and policy.

The variety of papers presented looks at:

• how regions can be creative and competitive
• how research and development is outsourced and the scientific knowledge and technology transferred
• what types of technology based cultural activities can operate
• the relevant financing and development of knowledge entrepreneurship.

Whilst many of these aspects are driven by market forces Creative Regions demonstrates that the regional and national public sectors have a significant role to play and is essential reading on how to generate a competitive advantage for regions in the knowledge economy in the global market.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Figures......Page 11
Tables......Page 13
Contributors......Page 16
1 Creative regions: an introduction......Page 20
Part I: Regional innovation systems......Page 40
2 The regionalisation of knowledge: the territorial basis of development......Page 42
3 Creative regions and globalizing social capital: connecting foreign ICT experts to Finnish innovation environments......Page 59
4 Connectivity and co-location in innovation processes of Dutch firms......Page 81
5 On strengthening the knowledge base of knowledgeintensive SMEs in less favoured regions in Finland......Page 100
Part II: Cluster evolution, variety and policy......Page 122
6 Regional innovation clusters: evaluation of the South-East Brabant cluster scheme......Page 124
7 Cluster emergence: a comparative study of two cases in North Jutland, Denmark......Page 146
8 The knowledge–space dynamic in the British biotechnology industry: function, relation, and association......Page 167
9 Culture, creativity and local economic development: evidence from creative industries in Florence......Page 188
10 Reflections on innovative alliances involving technological science and the creative industry: a case study involving the Roskilde region and Musicon Valley......Page 216
Part III: Knowledge transfer, R&D outsourcing, open innovation......Page 234
11 Research, knowledge and open innovation: spatial impacts upon organisation of knowledge-intensive industry clusters......Page 236
12 The outsourcing of knowledge production and its implications for regional path dependence......Page 259
13 Creativity and openness: outsourcing of knowledgeintensive services as a challenge for innovation systems in a metropolitan region......Page 279
14 Boundary spanning and the ‘knowledge community’......Page 299
Index......Page 312