This paper starts with a critical assessment of the recent paper by Cowan, Foray and David. It also provides the authors' own assessment of why the tacit/codified distinction is important …
Innovation has moved to the foreground in regional policy in the last decade. Concrete policies were shaped by “best practice models” derived from high-tech areas and well …
This chapter is about the tension between two ideal type modes of learning and innovation. One mode is based on the production and use of codified scientific and technical knowledge …
The authors have worked on innovation systems for more than a decade. This paper is an attempt to take stock. In Section 2, we reflect upon the emergence and fairly rapid diffusion of …
S Jacobsson, A Johnson - Energy policy, 2000 - Elsevier
During the last two decades there has been a great deal of research on renewable energy technologies. It is commonly thought that very little has come out of this research in terms of …
D Doloreux - Technology in society, 2002 - Elsevier
The concept of Regional Systems of Innovation (RSI) has recently become popular among academics of various disciplines. RSI results from a territorially embedded institutional …
Adopting a science and technology studies (S&TS) perspective and organized around eight major themes, this paper analyzes the development of the National Innovation Systems …
M Bell, M Albu - World development, 1999 - Elsevier
Research on industrial clusters in developing countries is increasingly concerned with how their competitiveness evolves and changes over time. This article shows what analytical …
Since the 1970s, environmental problems have risen on the political agenda. Many environmental problems (such as water pollution, local air pollution, acid rain) have since …