The associational economy : firms, regions, and innovation

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of Figures and Tables = ⅸ
• The Associational Economy : Introduction = 1
• Introduction = 1
• Issues Explored = 4
• 1. The Institutions of Innovation = 9
• Introduction = 9
• Models of Innovation : The Schumpeterian Legacy = 10
• The Firm as a Repository of Knowledge = 13
• The State as Animateur : Creating a Milieu for Innovation = 17
• National Systems of Innovation = 24
• Trust, Voice, and Loyalty = 29
• Conclusions = 33
• 2. Firms as Laboratories : Re-inventing the Corporation = 35
• Introduction = 35
• Corporate Governance : Rethinking Ownership and Control = 36
• R&D : Reintegrating Conception and Execution = 41
• Beyond Taylorism? The Factory as a Laboratory = 47
• Co-makership : Building Supply-Chain Partnerships = 53
• Conclusions = 58
• 3. The Region as a Nexus of Learning Processes = 60
• Introduction = 60
• The Region : From Defence to Offence = 62
• Regions as Laboratories = 65
• Regional Innovation Systems = 70
• Innovation, System, Lock-in, and Industrial Districts = 72
• Beyond Regional Path-Dependence to Economies of Association = 76
• Conclusions = 81
• 4. Baden-W$$\ddot u$$rttemberg : The Evolution of a 'Model Region' = 83
• Introduction = 83
• The Regional Governance System = 86
• The National System of Innovation = 91
• Corporate Restructuring = 94
• The Mittelstand Sector = 100
• The Mittelstand after the Recession = 106
• The Role of Intermediaries = 109
• Conclusions : Embedding for the Future = 111
• 5. Emilia-Romagna : From Civic Culture to Global Networks = 114
• Introduction = 114
• The Regional Governance System = 117
• Changing Industrial Organization = 122
• The Role of the Intermediaries = 126
• Remaking the SME Networks = 129
• Conclusions = 132
• 6. Wales : Innovating through Global-Local Interaction = 134
• Introduction = 134
• Low Trust and Short-Termism : The Anti-Industrial Syndrome in Britain = 135
• Governance Capacity : The Rise of the Regional State in Wales = 142
• Corporate Restructuring : The Scope and Limits of FDI = 147
• Beyond Classical Regional Policy = 151
• Conclusions = 160
• 7. The Basque Conundrum : Regional Autonomy and Economic Decline = 162
• Introduction = 162
• From Francoism to Federalism : Late Modernization in Spain = 163
• The Governance System in the Basque Country = 168
• Corporate Restructuring : The Shadow of the Past = 172
• Regional Innovation Strategies : Chinks of Light? = 179
• Conclusions = 190
• 8. Evolutionary Processes and Regional Practices = 193
• Introduction = 193
• The Evolutionary Perspective on Regional Economic Development = 194
• National Systems of Innovation = 201
• The Regional Nexus = 206
• What Policy Lessons are to be Learned? = 212
• Innovation and Regional Development : The EU Repertoire = 213
• Conclusions and Implications = 218
• References = 221
• Index = 239