Understanding Innovation in Emerging Economic Spaces

Global and Local Actors, Networks and Embeddedness
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4724-1033-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 585 g

Reihe: The Dynamics of Economic Space

A small number of countries, regions, cities, and localities are powerful gatekeepers and generate the bulk of creative and innovative ideas, while the majority is largely excluded. This book looks at neglected, but emerging innovation centres analysed from various spatial and organizational perspectives; ranging from entire countries and regions to individual firms and small neighbourhoods. Bringing together leading scholars from various disciplines, it examines a variety of economic sectors including biotechnology, agrotourism, and the food retail industry. The authors employ various, often contradictory, concepts, ranging from local buzz and the global pipeline, through an analysis of collective learning processes to geographical embeddedness, using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The purpose of the book is twofold: investigating changes occurring in the regions and cities under transformation and attempting to find common and unique mechanisms behind these changes. Consequently, the authors shed light on the scale and scope of the innovativeness of selected economic and social processes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Micek, Grzegorz

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Introduction: innovation in emerging economic spaces in the context of the local-global dichotomy, Grzegorz Micek. Part I Introduction: Managing innovation in 'localities of learning' in Berlin and Seville, Sascha Brinkhoff, Lech Suwala and Elmar Kulke; Industrial and R&D activity in emerging economies - Poland versus other EU countries, Tomasz RachwaA' and Krzysztof Wiedermann; Shortcomings and weaknesses in understanding and measuring knowledge interactions, Grzegorz Micek. Part II Large Firms and FDI: Global-Local Dichotomy: Geographical embeddedness of large corporations in Turkey, Aksel Ersoy; Foreign direct investment in Estonia - understanding the impact of public policies on local embeddedness and networking in the food retail and related industries, Egert Juuse, Sylvi Birgit Endresen and Rainer Kattel; Twenty years of restructuring in the Estonian food retail industry - the interplay of the political economy of Estonia and institutional, historical and geographical factors, Egert Juuse, Sylvi Birgit Endresen and Rainer Kattel; The role of local and foreign companies in the development of non-metropolitan rural areas in Poland, Magdalena Dej; Beyond localness: development dimensions of the NiepoA'omice Investment Zone, Wojciech Jarczewski, Maciej Huculak, Magdalena Dej and Auukasz SykaA'a. Part III Innovative Small Firms - Strategies and Behaviour: Beyond a creative class hotspot: innovation in independent and corporate coffee shop enterprises, Mathew Novak; The role of creativity and innovativeness of firm managers in socio-economic development: the case of the PoznaA" Metropolitan Region, MichaA' MA(TM)czyA"ski; The global and the local in the Polish biotechnology industry, Piotr Dawidko; Agricultural tourism farms in Poland: how the farmers improve their businesses - a case study, SA'awomir Dorocki, Anna Irena SzymaA"ska and MaA'gorzata Zdon-Korzeniowska. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Grzegorz Micek is Lecturer at Jagiellonian University, Poland.