Re-framing Regional Development (eBook, ePUB)

Evolution, Innovation and Transition
Redaktion: Cooke, Philip

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Turbulence characterises the current global scene. This book uses complementary theoretical approaches to understand and help prescribe policies to 're-frame' the regional development problem in turbulent times. These approaches are: evolutionary complexity; evolutionary economic geography; emergence theory; and resilience theory. From below, they address the four major crises creating a 'perfect storm' for societies and economics involving: the climate change crisis; the energy crisis; the banking and financial crisis; and the global economic crisis.

This book analyses and proposes ways in which regional economies, in particular, are having to be 'reframed' to address these crises. First, many must evolve in new ways, possibly moving back from the 'service economy' towards a new, greener form of manufacturing of goods as well as services. Accordingly, regional economies are innovating in new ways. Amongst these are the quest for 'relatedness' within their own regional orbits, and promoting 'modularity' as a mode of analysis and a policy stance to stimulate innovation across industry and geographical borders.

Finally, regional economies and societies are discovering that, from a 'resilience' perspective, they must find answers to the higher levels of governance with which they increasingly struggle. In this respect regional economies are in 'transition' and regional processes are 'emergent'. The transition seeks to address the four crises, involving re-balancing, re-directing and re-framing future policy and practice. This book describes many of the novel 'framings' involved in understanding the new ways in which this major task is being addressed in theory, policy and everyday practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136223037
• Artikelnr.: 47894338

Autorenporträt

Philip Cooke is Director and Research Professor in Regional Development at the Centre for Advanced Studies, Cardiff University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Reframing Regional Development: Complex systems integration,
'emergence', and policy modularisation Philip Cooke Part I: Evolutionary
Transition Space 2. A World in Emergence: Notes toward a resynthesis of
Urban-Economic Geography for the 21st Century Allen J. Scott 3. Regional
Resilience, Cross-sectoral Knowledge Platforms and the Prospects for Growth
in Canadian City-Regions David A. Wolfe 4. Forms of Emergence and the
Evolution of Economic Landscapes Ron Martin and Peter Sunley 5. Strange
Attractors and Policy Emergence: Complex adaptive innovation Philip Cooke
Part II: Innovation and Diversity 6. The Health Technologies Sector in
Oxfordshire: Evolution or optimism in regional development? Helen
Lawton-Smith 7. Reframing Regional Innovation Systems: Evolution,
complexity and public policy Elvira Uyarra and Kieron Flanagan 8. Path
Dependence and New Technological Path Creation in the Economic Landscape
James Simmie 9. Proximity and Innovation Networks: An evolutionary approach
Pierre-Alexandre Balland, Ron Boschma and Koen Frenken Part III: Cluster
Emergence and Destabilisation 10. Foresight and Innovation: Emergence and
resilience of the cleantech cluster at Lahti, Finland Helinä Melkas and
Tuomo Uotila 11. 'Twilight of the Gods': The rise of Asia Pacific and
Californian convergent media and the demise of Nordic mobile telephony in
the ICT global innovation network Philip Cooke 12. The Remarkable
Resilience of Cities of Art: The challenge of a new Renaissance in Florence
Luciana Lazzeretti 13. Socio-cultural Dynamics in Spatial Policy:
Explaining the on-going success of cluster politics Dieter Rehfeld and
Judith Terstriep Part IV: Evolutionary Spatial Policy 14. Transformation of
Regional Innovation Systems: From old legacies to new development paths
Franz Tödtling and Michaela Trippl 15. Path Dependence and the State: The
politics of novelty in old industrial regions Kevin Morgan 16.
City-regions, Innovation and Universities: The evolution and transition of
UK urban governance institutions Fumi Kitagawa