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Edited by Gerhard Fuchs, Institute for Social Sciences, University of Stuttgart, Germany, and Philip Shapira, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

Published by Springer, New York, NY, USA. 2005. ISBN 0387230017.

About the book. This volume reconsiders and advances theories and practices in understanding regional innovation and change in developed societies. It examines the importance of economic-structural and institutional path dependencies as well as on the conditions under which divergence from path dependent development is viable. Conceptual issues as well as empirical regional cases are examined. Authors from Europe, the USA, and Canada contribute to the book.

Contributors: H. Bathelt, J. Boogs, R. Boschma, P. Cooke. G. Fuchs, D. Gallaud, M. Gertler, G. Grabher, K. Koschatzky, H. Kujath, A. Malmberg, D. Power, C. Scherrer, P. Shapira, U. Stabler, A. Torre, L. Tsipouri, S. Wasserman.

Contents: -Beyond path dependency and competitive convergence: Institutional transfer from a discourse-analytical perspective -Tacit knowledge, path dependency and local trajectories of growth -Regional transformation and regional disequilibrium: New knowledge economies and their discontents -Switching ties, recombining teams: Avoiding lock-in through project organization? -Knowledge-intensive services as a key sector for processes of regional economic innovation: Leapfrogging and path dependency -Entrepreneurship as a source of path dependency -Geographical proximity and the diffusion of knowledge. The case of SME’s in biotechnology -Continuities, ruptures, and re-bundling of regional development paths: Leipzig’s metamorphosis -Can less favored regions change their destiny? Lessons from Europe -Innovation challenges and strategies in catch-up regions -Path dependency in Baden-Württemberg: Lock-in or breakthrough? -Rethinking regional innovation policy -On the role of global demand in local innovation processes -The regionalization of innovation policy: New options for regional change?

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