Regional innovation policies for new path development – beyond neo-liberal and traditional systemic views

Regional Versus Local Accessibility: Neo-Traditional Development and Its Implications for Non-work Travel

Latin America's Exclusionary Rural Development in a Neo-liberal World

New technologies and innovation in higher education and regional development

According to the Academy of Finland and Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, there are two prominent driving forces in today’s global operating environment. Th e fi rst is the trend towards increasing mobility; the second is the growing interdependence of diff erent parts of the world, their increasing interaction and cooperation in the economy, production, social de...

Clusters, Innovation and Regional Development

This paper provides a critical examination of the widely disseminated view that innovation in all or most activities is favoured by certain common characteristics in the local ‘milieu’, involving a cluster of many small firms benefiting from flexible inter-firm alliances, supported by mutual information exchanges of both an informal and formal nature. The general applicability of this model, an...

Innovation , agglomeration , and regional development

This paper provides a critical examination of the widely disseminated view that innovation in all or most activities is favoured by certain common characteristics in the local ‘milieu’, involving a cluster of many small firms benefiting from flexible inter-firm alliances, supported by mutual information exchanges of both an informal and formal nature. The general applicability of this model, an...