Canada's Regional Innovation System

by Niosi, Jorge; Bas, Tomas Gabriel (COL); Zhegu, Majlinda (COL)

• ISBN13: 9780773528239
• ISBN10: 0773528237
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

Regional innovation systems, Jorge Niosi shows, are evolutionary complex systems in which each group of agents reacts to the behaviour of others as well as to public policy incentives. Canada's Regional Innovation System finds that Canada's biotechnology capabilities are widely distributed but solidly planted in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, with smaller centres in Calgary and Edmonton. However, the specific institutional structures (innovative firms, research universities, and public laboratories) of regional systems vary from one industry to another and evolve through time. While aerospace and aircraft form two poles in Montreal and Toronto, Ottawa is Canada's centre for semiconductor and telecommunication innovation. Niosi explores how these regional configurations are shaped by national and provincial public policy incentives.The study is based on patent and company information as well as aggregate figures from Statistics Canada and other sources.

Author Biography

Jorge Niosi is professor and Canada Research Chair on the Management of Technology, Universite du Quebec at Montreal.

Table of Contents

Tables, Figures and Sidebars	vii
Preface	xi
Introduction: Regional Production Systems and Regional Systems of Innovation	3	(18)
Methods: Patent Analysis and Related Techniques	21	(8)
Biotechnology (with the collaboration of Tomas Gabriel Bas)	29	(32)
Aircraft systems of Innovation (with the collaboration of Majlinda Zhegu)	61	(26)
Regional Systems of Innovation in Telecommunications	87	(23)
Semiconductor Innovation in Regions	110	(15)
Regional Computer Software Innovation	125
Conclusion	114	(45)
References	159	(10)
Index	169