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Creative Regions: Technology, Culture and Knowledge Entrepreneurship

By Philip Cooke , Dafna Schwartz

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2007
ISBN
0415434289, 9780415434287, 9780203926703
Open Library ID
OL17727443M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1986687 bytes)
Series
Regions and Cities
Edition
1
Pages
312\313
Topic
Economy
Library
avaxhome.ws
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

This unique book focuses on regional creativity, analysing the different factors that can affect creativity and innovation process within regions in the knowledge economy. Approaching creativity from technological, organizational and regional viewpoints, it attempts to break down the influence of oppositional approaches and take account of multi-level interactions in economy and policy. The variety of papers presented looks at: how regions can be creative and competitive how research and development is outsourced and the scientific knowledge and technology transferred what types of technology based cultural activities can operate the relevant financing and development of knowledge entrepreneurship. Whilst many of these aspects are driven by market forces Creative Regions demonstrates that the regional and national public sectors have a significant role to play and is essential reading on how to generate a competitive advantage for regions in the knowledge economy in the global market.

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