REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

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Regional Development in the Knowledge Economy Philip Cooke & Andrea Piccaluga Chapter 1: Introduction: Regional Asymmetries, Knowledge Categories & Innovation Intermediation. Philip Cooke (Cardiff University) Chapter 2: Localised Knowledge Spillovers: The key to innovativeness in industrial clusters? Marjolein Caniels (OU, Netherlands) & Henry Romijn (TU, Eindhoven) Chapter 3: Knowledge-Intensive Industries and Regional Development: the Case of the Software Industry in Norway Arne Isaksen (STEP Group, Oslo) Chapter 4:The impact of geography on the innovative productivity of software firm in the Netherlands Anet Weterings and Ron Boschma (University of Utrecht) Chapter 5: Constructing Regional Innovation Systems through a Triple Helix: Lessons and Inspiration from the Northern Hemisphere Bjorn Asheim & Lars Coenen (University of Lund) Chapter 6: Sourcing of market knowledge in biotechnology. Maija Renko (University of Turku) Chapter 7: Knowledge access at distance: strategies and practices of new biotechnology firms in emerging locations. Margarida Fontes (INETI / DMS, Lisbon) Chapter 8: LINKING LESS-FAVOURED FINNISH REGIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY THROUGH UNIVERSITY FILIAL CENTRES. Kati-Jasmin Kosonen (University of Tampere) Chapter 9: Economic growth in emerging knowledge intensive areas: the high-tech cluster in Pisa. Alberto Di Minin, Michela Lazzeroni, Andrea Piccaluga (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa) Chapter 10: An emerging ICT cluster in a marginal region: the Sardinian experience Luca Ferrucci and Daniele Porcheddu (University of Perugia, University of Sassari) Chapter 11: Cooperation networks and regional development: case of multisectoral partnership for innovation. Jorge de Carvalho ALVES, Irina Adriana SAUR, Maria Jose MARQUES (University of Aveiro) Chapter 12: The new knowledge regions: from simple to complex innovation theory. Lars Qvortrup (University of South Denmark, Odense) Chapter 13: Conclusions. Variety and miracles for successful regional innovation policies: from "copy and paste" to "copy and paste special". Andrea Piccaluga (University of Lecce & Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa)