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Year: 2012
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ISBN 10: 0415686466 
ISBN 13: 9780415686464
Author: Philip Cooke

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.

Re framing Regional Development Evolution Innovation and Transition 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction: Complex systems integration, ‘emergence’, and policy modularisation
Introduction
Concepts of reframing
Evolutionary, complexity and related theory
Evolutionary complexity theory in an economic geography framing
Evolutionary economic geography
Theory of emergence
Resilience theory
Systemic integration of policy modules
A brief introduction to the chapters
Notes
References

Part I Evolutionary transition space

2 A world in emergence: Notes toward a resynthesis of urban-economic geography for the twenty-first century
Beyond postfordism
New historical frontiers of capitalist expansion
Digital technologies of computing and communication
New divisions of labor
Knowledge and human sensibility in the labor process
Toward spatialization
Metropolis (I): economy
Agglomeration, decentralization, and the new economy
The creative field and the city
Urban growth: a critique and theoretical reconstruction
Metropolis (II): society and built form
The division of labor and the social space of the city
Gentrification and central-city redevelopment
Celebrity and glamour in the cognitive-cultural city
Interstitial geographies: new rural spaces
Urban-economic geography in a world of spatial convergence and differentiation
From internationalism to multistructured globalism
The new regionalism
Postscript: into the future
Appendix: Occupations used in calculating employment changes in the New York-New Jersey Metropolitan Area, 1980–2000
Service occupations (except law enforcement and fire fighting occupations)
Operators, fabricators and laborers
Note
References

3 Regional resilience, cross-sectoral knowledge platforms and the prospects for growth in Canadian city-regions
Introduction
The concept of resilience and its economic application
Specialization versus diversity as sources of resilience
Specialization, diversity and knowledge platforms in Canadian cities
Conclusion
References

4 Forms of emergence and the evolution of economic landscapes
Introduction
The concept of emergence
Second-order emergence in the spatial economy
Evolutionary emergence and regional economies
Conclusions
Notes
References

5 Strange attractors and policy emergence: Complex adaptive innovation
Introduction
At the crossroads: ontologies of reduction and diversity
Strange attractors: complexity, relatedness and regional innovation
Evolutionary regional innovation and growth theory
Evolutionary complexity geography and some key questions arising for policy
Learning from your industry (and citizens): some considered answers about regional innovation strategy
Grand challenges as forms of emergence
Healthcare Technology Alliance
Innovation Policy Business Intervention Models (BIMs)
Real ‘White Spaces’
Conclusions
References

Part II Innovation and diversity

6 The health technologies sector in Oxfordshire: Evolution or optimism in regional development?
Introduction
System relatedness and stakeholder theory
Path dependence
Constructed advantage
A regional stakeholder approach
HealthTIES: the Thames Valley and Oxfordshire case study
Introduction
The Thames Valley and Oxfordshire
The trajectory of the healthcare sector in Oxfordshire
Patenting and connectedness
Conclusions: path dependence, constructing advantage, stakeholders and possible outcomes
Notes
References

7 Reframing regional innovation systems: Evolution, complexity and public policy
Introduction
Regional systems of innovation: networks, institutions and policy
Revisiting RSI: networks, diversity and path dependence
Localised, path-dependent trajectories
Innovation systems as complex systems
Evolutionary policy
Summary
Notes
References

8 Path dependence and new technological path creation in the economic landscape
Introduction
Traditional path dependence theory and change in the economic landscape
Niches, agency and innovation in the creation of new economic pathways
New path creation and changes in the economic landscape of the American wind power industry
American wind power programme
Californian wind boom
Summary and conclusions
References

9 Proximity and innovation networks: An evolutionary approach
Introduction
Different perspectives in the proximity school
Institutionalist approach to proximity
Interactionist approach to proximity
Evolutionary approach
Conclusion and discussion
Notes
References

Part III Cluster emergence and destabilisation

10 Foresight and innovation: Emergence and resilience of the Cleantech Cluster at Lahti, Finland
Introduction
Resilience and its operationalisation
Interplay between foresight and innovation
Foresight, innovation, knowledge and learning in a regional innovation system
A conceptual model integrating foresight activities and innovation
The case study
Background of the Cleantech Cluster
Emergence and resilience of the regional Cleantech Cluster at Lahti
Emergence
The Regional Development Platform Method (RDPM)
Regional (innovation) strategies
Technology foresight
Innovation studies and tools
Resilience factors
Community factors
Cultural factors
Factors related to the physical environment
Discussion and conclusions: next steps to the future
Appendix
Notes
References

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
Introduction: the geographies of GIN-TIS co-location
Twilight of the gods: the demise of Nordic mobile telephony
‘Mobile Heights’ and ‘Media Evolution’ in Skåne, Sweden
Nokia, Finland
NorCom, Aalborg, Denmark
California: home of the ‘smartphone’
Cambridge, UK software and systems design excellence
South Korea: AMOLED touchscreens
Singapore’s hierarchical production network
Taiwan’s cross-straits platform with China’s ‘world factory’
The ‘smiling curve’ expression of the GIN for ICT
Discussion and conclusions
Note
References

12 The remarkable resilience of cities of art: The challenge of a new renaissance in Florence
Introduction: creative city, innovation and resilience
The risks of second modernity and cities of art
The risks of second modernity: an overview
The risk of a loss of meaning and authenticity
How to transform risks into opportunities?
Back to Florence Renaissance: three innovation cases
Case of renewal of city image and cultural filères: ‘Florence and Science’
Case of cross-fertilization: laser technologies for conservation
Case of discovery: the Stendhal syndrome
Concluding remarks
Notes
References

13 Socio-cultural dynamics in spatial policy: Explaining the on-going success of cluster politics
Introduction
From uncoordinated bottom-up activities to societal dynamics and institutionalisation
Economic and political background of cluster dynamics
Trajectories of a new concept in structural policies
Adoption in the political field
Division of labour in the system of multilevel governance
Rethinking the effects of cluster policy
References

Part IV Evolutionary spatial policy

14 Transformation of regional innovation systems: From old legacies to new development paths
Introduction
Sources of stability in regional innovation systems
Directions of RIS changes
Path renewal
Path formation in established industries
Path creation in new industries
Actors of change and the role of context
Varieties of capitalism
Types of RISs
Modes of change
Changes of soft institutions: new strategies, routines and patterns of behaviour
Changes in RIS elements
Changes of networks
Summary and outlook
References

15 Path dependence and the state: The politics of novelty in old industrial regions
Introduction
The path not taken: locking in the National Coal Board
Betting on Technium: the perils of state-led path creation
The power of purchase: exploring the path of positive procurement
Conclusions and implications
References

16 City-regions, innovation and universities: The evolution and transition of UK urban governance institutions
Introduction
‘City-regions’ debates, evolutionary perspective to innovation and governance
Universities and the innovation agenda in regions in the UK
The evolution and transition of the regional governance, public funding and higher education in the UK
On-going spatial evolutions from RDAs to LEPs and universities as transitory urban governance institutions
Bristol city region in the South West region
Manchester city region in the North West region
Concluding remarks: innovation agenda, universities and a city-region as a socio-economic space

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