Creative regions : technology, culture and knowledge entrepreneurship / edited by Philip Cooke and Dafna Schwartz.

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada." -- Tp. verso.

"First published in 2007. First issued in paperback ed 2012."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creative regions : an introduction / Philip Cooke, Dafna Schwartz -- Regional innovation systems -- The regionalisation of knowledge : the territorial basis of development / Dietmar Bastian, Ulrich Hilpert -- Creative regions and globalising social capital : connecting foreign ICT experts to Finnish innovation environments / Mika Raunio -- Connectivity and co-location in innovation processes of Dutch firms / Pieter J. M. de Bruijn, Frank. G. van Oort -- On strengthening the knowledge base of knowledge-intensive SMEs in less-favoured regions in Finland / Kati-Jasmin Kosonen -- Cluster evolution, variety and policy -- Regional innovation clusters : evaluation of the South East Brabant cluster scheme / Roel Rutten, Frans Boekema -- Cluster emergence : a comparative study of two cases in North Jutland, Denmark / Dagmara Stoerring, Bent Dalum -- The knowledge-space dynamic in the British biotechnology industry : function, relation, and association / Kean Birch -- Culture, creativity and local development : evidence from creative industries in Florence / Luciana Lazzeretti -- Reflections on innovative alliances involving technological science and the creative industry : a case study involving the Roskilde Region and Musicon Valley / Birgitte Rasmussen, Jens-Peter Lynov -- Knowledge transfer, R&D outsourcing, open innovation -- Research, knowledge and open innovation : spatial impacts upon organisation of knowledge-intensive industry clusters / Philip Cooke -- The outsourcing of knowledge production and its implications for regional path dependence / Alex Burfitt, Chris Collinge -- Creativity and openness : outsourcing of knowledge-intensive services as a challenge for innovation systems in a metropolitan region / Rüdiger Wink -- Boundary spanning and the "knowledge community" / Hiro Izushi.