This paper presents an innovative initiative of a regional university stimulating the development of a knowledge hub around nanotechnology applications to businesses. The paper argues that the regional industry structure and competitiveness can be influenced by this type of university-industry partnership that initiate, share, facilitate and transfer new technologies and practices. At the same ...

Regional innovations systems are a response to the emerging view in the 1990s that national innovation systems were not necessarily successful in addressing the challenge of competitiveness in period of globalisation. Indeed, with the emergence of clusters as a local innovation system much of the emphasis on competitive advantage in innovation was predicated on the existence of regional and loc...

In this paper, the sustainable competitiveness of the Hong Kong Fashion industry (textile and clothing industry) in the new economy is investigated through a comparison study and model simulation. We find that the competitiveness of Hong Kong will decrease without intensive investment to develop key knowledge-based core competencies in facing intensive competition from developing and developed ...

the asia-pacific region generates over half of global economic activity (54.2%) and about 43.7% of global trade, and is the most dynamic region in the global economy. at the core of this is an increasingly dynamic, vibrant and entrepreneurial small-medium sized enterprise sector. advances in information and communications technology, market liberalisation and moves towards closer regional econo...

Cooperation between regions in tourism development is inseparable from sectoral ego problems, so an analysis carried out using the 5 elements of Wright's IGR. This study aims to determine inter-regional cooperation and driving inhibiting factors. The research method uses descriptive qualitative. data used are primary secondary data. Data collection techniques interviews documentation. interacti...