Constructing advantage: Distributed innovation and the management of local economic growth

Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 23-36

  De La Mothe, John ^a,b   Mallory, Geoff ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commercialization; Creativity; Economic growth; Innovation; Knowledge intensive cities; Public goods

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; PUBLIC GOODS; TECHNOLOGY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33645118460     PISSN: 08109028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08109020600563812     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. John de la Mothe, Science, Technology and Governance, Continuum, London, 2001, p. 1.
2. Robert D. Putman, 'Bowling alone: America's declining social capital', Journal of Democracy, January 1995, p. 65
3. this valid line of argument is less successfully amplified in Robert D. Putman, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Touchstone, New York, 2000.
4. Robert D. Putman, Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti, Making Democracy Work, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1993.
5. Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life, Basic Books, New York, 2002.
6. See John de la Mothe and Gilles Paquet (eds), Local and Regional Systems of Innovation, Kluwer, Boston, 1997
7. John de la Mothe and Albert N. Link (eds), Networks, Alliances and Partnerships in the Innovation Process, Kluwer, Boston, 2002.
8. Jerry Carlino, 'The economic role of cities in the twenty-first century', Business Review, Q3, 2005, p. 10.
9. John de la Mothe, Innovation Strategies in Interdependent States Essays for Smaller Nations, Regions and Cities, Edward Elgar, London, 2005.
10. Jeremy Rifkin, The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism Where All of Life is a Paid-For Experience, Tarcher Putman, New York, 2000.
11. Ibid., pp. 19-20.
12. This research and visual example is thanks to Professor Yves Gingras and his team at the University of Quebec in Montreal.
13. This section is based on a report prepared for the OECD in January 2003.
14. See www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletin/00234-00.asp.
15. In the last research assessment exercise, six Scottish departments received the highest '5-star' rating.
16. This number is imprecise as the Knowledge Exchange also notes as an aside that the electronics industry employs 41,000 people but this figure does not jibe with the otherwise stated figures.
17. Scottish Key Facts compiled by the Knowledge Exchange (Glasgow), 21 November 2002.
18. cf. Richard Nimijean, 'St. Johns New Brunswick as an emerging local system of innovation', in de la Mothe and Paquet (eds), op. cit.
19. Spectrum International Benchmarking Study, 1999
20. cited in A Smart, Successful Scotland (2001).
21. The anti-thesis of Timothy Leary's motto, 'turn on, tune in, drop out', it would seem.
22. See for example Jean Marie Guehenno, The End of the Nation State, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1995
23. or Kennichi Ohmae, The Invisible Continent, Harper Business Press, New York, 2000.
24. John de la Mothe (ed.), Science, Technology and Governance, Continuum, London, 2002.
25. See Saskia Sassen, Cities in a World Economy, Pine Forge (Sage), Beverly Hills, 2000.
26. No longer is technology seen as T̄ as being equally accessible over time and space, to all 'rationale actors' who possess 'perfect information'. See any of the textbooks on macroeconomics by N. Gregory Mankiew.
27. Politicians have recently referred to Canada as the Northern Tiger, Wales as the Welsh Tiger and Ireland as the Celtic Tiger. Even India is having trouble holding on to its real tigers!
28. Gerhard Mencsh, Stalemate in Technology, Ballinger, New York, 1978.