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Tables of Contents for Local and Regional Systems of Innovation
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Contributors
vii
 
Preface
ix
 
Acknowledgments
xi
 
Part A IN SEARCH OF CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Local and Regional Systems of Innovation as Learning Socio-Economies
1
18
John de la Mothe
Gilles Paquet
Part B CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES
Calibrating the Learning Region
19
10
Richard Florida
Regional Systems of Innovation and the Blurred Firm
29
16
AnnaLee Saxenian
Modeling Regional Innovation and Competitiveness
45
36
Tim Padmore
Hervey Gibson
Part C INTERNATIONAL AND INTER-REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Knowledge-Based Industrial Clustering: International Comparisons
81
30
Roger Voyer
Contrasting U.S. Metropolitan Systems of Innovation
111
14
Zoltan J. Acs
Felix R. FitzRoy
Ian Smith
Contrasting Regional Innovation Systems in Oxford and Cambridge
125
24
Helen Lawton Smith
David Keeble
Clive Lawson
Barry Moore
Frank Wilkinson
Telecoms in New Jersey: Spatial Determinants of Sectoral Investments
149
24
Cliff Wymbs
Part D PERSPECTIVES ON CANADA'S LOCAL AND REGIONAL SYSTEMS OF INNOVATION
Innovation in Enterprises in British Columbia
173
18
J.A.D. Holbrook
L.P. Hughes
How Do Small Firms Innovate in British Columbia?
191
20
Hans G. Schuetze
The Dynamics of Regional Innovation in Ontario
211
28
Meric S. Gertler
David A. Wolfe
David Garkut
Canada's Technology Triangle
239
18
Jeffrey Roy
The Chaudiere-Appalaches System of Industrial Innovations
257
20
Rejean Landry
Nabil Amara
Saint John, NB. As an Emerging Local System of Innovation
277
26
Richard Nimijean
Canadian Science Parks, Universities, and Regional Development
303
24
Jerome Doutriaux
Part E QUO VADIS?
Some Lessons and Challenges for Model Builders, Data Gatherers and Other Tribes
327
8
John de la Mothe
Gilles Paquet
Index
335