Local innovation support in Scotland: policy lessons from Glasgow

International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-56

  McPherson, A H ^a   McDonald, Sean M ^b  

^a New Lanarkshire House   (United Kingdom)

^b BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

institutions; national systems of innovation; regional innovation systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954006694     PISSN: 17402816     EISSN: 17402824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJFIP.2005.007595     Document Type: Article

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65. For the purposes of this paper, Glasgow is defined as the area within the Glasgow Local Enterprise Company boundary. It is recognised that the functional area of the Glasgow city-region extends beyond this local area and the area covered by the West of Scotland Structural Funds Programme 2000–2006 is used as a proxy for the city-region.
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67. The principal features within this system are denoted as: the internal organisation of the firm; the inter-firm relationships; the role of the public sector; the institutional set-up of the financial sector; the R&D activities and R&D organisations; and the form of education and skills training (Lundvall, 1992).
68. This document further develops themes presented in ‘Scotland: towards the knowledge economy’ and ‘The way forward: framework for economic development in Scotland’ (Scottish Office, 1999, Scottish Executive, 2000a, 2000b).
69. The 12 local authorities included are: East, North, and South Ayrshire Councils, North and South Lanarkshire Councils, East and West Dunbartonshire Councils, Inverclyde Council, East Renfrewshire Council, Renfrewshire Council, Glasgow City Council, Argyll and Bute Council.
70. That is, Glasgow, Strathclyde, and Glasgow Caledonian Universities and Glasgow School of Art.
71. The forerunner of Scottish Enterprise Glasgow.
72. The former operated a number of initiatives including: Innovation Relay Centre; Technology Development Programme; and Small Companies Innovation Support Scheme. The latter company operated: an IT company growth programme; a software marketing initiative; and the local ISI Centre (see Table 2).
73. The acronym DIALOGUES stands for Developing Innovation and Leveraging Opportunities, Glasgow University and Existing SMEs.
74. The term Creative Industries includes: games, radio and television, new media, film, music production, design, publishing, architecture, advertising, arts, and cultural industries.
75. Reporting on a review of the EC’s first wave of the Regional Innovation and Technology Transfer Strategies and Infrastructure Scheme (RITTS) in some 42 European regions (including the Scottish Highlands and Islands).