Regional innovation systems and sustainable development : emerging technologies / Patricia Ordońẽz de Pablos, W.B. Lee, and Jingyuan Zhao, [editors].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-250) and index.

"This book promotes scientific discussion on standards and practices of regional development, while also covering emerging research topics in regional innovation systems and sustained development"--Provided by publisher.

Traceability systems for sustainable development in rural areas / Vicente García-Diaz [and others] -- R and D centre growth based on regional innovation system / Jingyuan Zhao -- The regional innovation capacity model / Antonio Lerro, Giovanni Schiuma -- Understanding knowledge networks via social network analysis (SNA) / Asleena Helmi, Zainal Ariffin Ahmad, Daisy Kee Mui Hung -- Breaking out from lock-in: regional innovation strategies in the German Ruhrgebiet / Gert-Jan Hospers -- Alliances may explain the significant growth of biotechnology companies in the critical period 1996-2001? / Tomas Gabriel Bas -- Optimal policy for biopharmaceutical drugs innovation and access in India / Rakhi Rashmi -- Embracing emerging technologies: the case of the Singapore intelligent nation 2015 vision / Pak Tee Ng -- Dynamics in a non-scale R and D endogenous economic growth for Chinese development / Qiong He -- Analysis of online game distribution in China's internet cafés / Qun Ren, Philip Hardwick -- From lab to market: issues in industry-academy cooperation and commercialization of R and D outputs in Nigeria / A.A. Egbetokun, W.O. Siyanbola, A.A. Oyewale -- Theoretical approaches to the marketing of innovation in biotechnology firms: new products for new markets / Tomas Gabriel Bas -- Strategic regional networks in higher education / Mauri Kantola, Juha Kettunen, Satu Helmi -- Innovation policy, competitiveness, and growth: towards convergence or divergence? / Aikaterini Kokkinou -- Mapping the innovation activities in Europe / George M. Korres -- Biopharma drugs innovation in India and foreign investment and technology transfer in the changed patent regime / Rakhi Rashmi.