Knowledge Flows in National Systems of Innovation

by Lopez, Roberto E.; Piccaluga, Andrea; Lopez-Martinez, Roberto E.

• ISBN13: 9781840642957
• ISBN10: 1840642955
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
List of tables	ix
List of contributors	xi
Prologue	xi
Alfonso Molina
Introduction: the meso-foundations of national innovation systems	1	(14)
Roberto E. Lopez-Martinez
Andrea Piccaluga
PART I THEORETICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
National systems of innovation, industrial clusters and constituency-building in Scotland's electronics industry	15	(41)
Alfonso Molina
Tony Kinder
Systems of innovation, knowledge and networks: Latin America and its capability to capture benefits	56	(29)
Mario Cimoli
Roberto Constantino
PART II REGIONAL INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS AND SOCIOTECHNICAL CONSTITUENCIES IN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA
Constituency-building in the development of the City of Rome's telematics strategy	85	(37)
Alfonso Molina
Mirta Michilli
The role of the university in constituency-building for industrial and territorial innovation: reflections on an Italian experience	122	(33)
Nicola Bellini
Andrea Piccaluga
University-enterprise linkages in the area of biotechnology	155	(13)
Carlos M. Correa
The role of the biotechnology and pharmaceutical scientific and productive clusters in the Cuban innovative activity	168	(19)
Leonardo de la Rosa
Blanca Esther Martin
PART III POLICYMAKING FOR CONSTITUENCY-BUILDING IN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA
Policymaking for constituency-building in Mexico	187	(30)
Alma Rocha-Lackiz
Roberto E. Lopez-Martinez
Industrial policy of providing support to clusters: the case of the Basque Country	217	(31)
Pere Escorsa
Jaime Alberto Camacho
Policies and shared values in the promotion of competitiveness: the Peruvian case	248	(43)
Mercedes Ines Carazo
Isaias Flit
Angel Hurtado
Index	291