Unlocking Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The Potential for Increasing Capacities

AvIréne Bernhard,Urban Gråsjö

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Illuminating and timely, this book explores several theoretical and empirical issues related to the potential for increasing capacities for innovation, knowledge and entrepreneurship. It highlights the current academic and political consensus that calls for policy interventions targeted towards more balanced, inclusive and regionally cohesive growth.Bringing together a wide range of cutting-edge case studies and research on regional potentials, the book explores the need for a focus on the regional inequality aspects of innovating, knowledge and entrepreneurship. Chapters analyse previously underexplored determinants of regional economic growth and development often overlooked in standard growth studies. They offer a deeper understanding of the drivers and implications of sub-national disparities in entrepreneurship and innovation in both developed and developing countries. Scholars and researchers of innovation, entrepreneurship, regional economics and spatial planning will appreciate the blend of empirical and theoretical viewpoints in the book. It will also be a useful tool for policymakers, planners and consultants involved in economic development and regional policies on different scales.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-06-08
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Horizons in Regional Science series
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781800371231

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Edited by Iréne Bernhard, PhD, Urban Gråsjö, PhD, School of Business, Economics and IT, University West and Charlie Karlsson, Professor Emeritus, Jönköping University and Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

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‘Innovation and entrepreneurship are key to economic development. But these factors are far more concentrated geographically than wealth or employment. Why is this the case? Unlocking Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship provides the answers. A must-read for scholars and policymakers who want to unleash the economic potential of territories.’

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:1 Introduction to Unlocking Regional Innovation andEntrepreneurship: The Potential for Increasing Capacities 1Iréne Bernhard, Urban Gråsjö and Charlie Karlsson2 Activating and redirecting regional potentials throughinnovation and entrepreneurship: an explorative study ofEuropean regions 14Andreas P. Cornett and Nils Karl Sørensen3 Urban innovation districts as hotspots for innovators 38Claudia Trillo4 Entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship policy and regionalinnovation systems 64Helen Lawton Smith5 Industrial policy in developed countries: a difficult butimportant policy area 81Charlie Karlsson and Sam Tavassoli6 Cultural policy for unlocking potentials of culturalactivities in diverse regions 111Giedrė Dzemydaitė7 Assessing the role of entropy on economic complexity inItalian regions 134Roberto Antonietti and Chiara Burlina8 Regional institutions and small business in Russia 158Yulia V. Tsareva, Stepan P. Zemtsov and Vera A. Barinova9 Hiring the first employee: an international explorationon the considerations leading to job creation by the soloself-employed 186Albert Kraaij and Saskia Rademaker10 How patenting and self-employment have affected USmetropolitan growth 219Gordon F. Mulligan11 Automation of income support in the public socialservices: a case study of an innovation that is still struggling 248Elin Wihlborg and Mariana S. Gustafsson12 Businessization and collaboration of the citizen/non-profitsector in Japan 271Masashi Imase13 Complementary smart specialization in a key Polish region 298Patryk Czerwony, Mirosław Miller and Tomasz Mroczkowski14 Higher education and inclusion: a comparative study ofimmigrants’ challenges, opportunities and strategies inSweden and South Africa 321Victoria Johansson and Deeqa OdawayIndex