ABSTRACT
In an increasingly globalised world, paradoxically regional innovation clusters have moved to the forefront of attention as a strategy for economic and social development. Transcending international success cases, like Silicon Valley and Route 128, as sources of lessons, successful high tech clusters in niche areas have had a significant impact on peripheral regions. Are these successful innovation clusters born or made? If they are subject to planning and direction, what is the shape that it takes: top down, bottom up or lateral?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 4|23 pages
Regional dynamics in non-metropolitan hi-tech clusters
A longitudinal study of two Nordic regions
chapter 5|22 pages
Regional strength in global competition
Collaborative patterns for life science firms in Western Sweden
chapter 6|22 pages
Between the regional and the global
Regional innovation systems policy and industrial knowledge formation
chapter 7|26 pages
Regional policy as change management
Theoretical discussion and empirical illustrations
chapter 8|21 pages
Constructing an innovation policy agency
The case of the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems
chapter 11|20 pages
Gender in governance of regional innovation
Why gender matters and is mainstreamed in the Swedish case
chapter 13|16 pages
The “start-up factor”
Regional innovation policy convergence between the US and Sweden
