Creating competitiveness entrepreneurship and innovation policies for growth
1. Creating competitiveness : introduction and overview / David B. Audretsch and Mary Lindenstein Walshok -- 2. Civic governance, social learning and the strategic management of city-regions / David A. Wolfe -- 3. Innovation in cities and innovation by cities / Robert D. Atkinson -- 4. The strategic...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 1. Creating competitiveness : introduction and overview / David B. Audretsch and Mary Lindenstein Walshok -- 2. Civic governance, social learning and the strategic management of city-regions / David A. Wolfe -- 3. Innovation in cities and innovation by cities / Robert D. Atkinson -- 4. The strategic recombination of regional innovative capacities : public-private institutions as knowledge bridges / Gerald A. McDermott -- 5. Enhancing economic growth? : university technology commercialization / Shiri M. Breznitz and Neela Ram -- 6. Academic entrepreneurship : lessons learned for university administrators and policymakers / Donald S. Siegel -- 7. Driving regional growth : the growing role of policies to promote clusters / Charles W. Wessner and Sujai Shivakumar -- 8. Evolving technologies and emerging regions : governance for growth and prosperity / Thomas Andersson -- 9. Collective entrepreneurship : the strategic management of Research Triangle Park / Dennis P. Leyden and Albert N. Link -- 10. The invention of San Diego's innovation economy / Mary Lindenstein Walshok and Abraham J. Shragge -- Index Although competitiveness is typically associated with firms, they are not the only organizational body whose performance is dependent upon competitiveness. This poignant insightful book focuses on how the varied economic performance of cities and regions, both within nations as well as across nations, during the era of the Great Recession also highlights the need for competitiveness |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 220 p |
| ISBN: | 9781781954041 9781781954058 |