Economic interdependence and innovative activity : an input-output analysis / by Christian DeBresson with ... [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Christian DeBresson -- 1. The Measured Observation of Innovation or Innovative Activities / Christian DeBresson -- 2. Economic Dimensions and Types of Innovative Acts / Christian DeBresson -- 3. Some Surveys of Innovative Activity / Christian DeBresson, Giorgio Sirilli, Philippe Kaminski, Shiqing Xu and Nikos Vernardakis -- 4. An Initial Puzzle: Pervasive Innovative Activities / Christian DeBresson -- 5. The Inter-industrial Analysis of Innovative Activities / Christian DeBresson -- 6. Alternative Perspectives on Division of Labor, Structural Change, and Economic Growth / Sergio Cesaratto -- 7. The Structure of Innovative Interactions in the Italian Economy (1981-85) / Christian DeBresson, Giorgio Sirilli and Xiaoping Hu -- 8. New Dimensions on Division of Labor: The Case of Italy (1981-85) / Sergio Cesaratto, Sandro Mongano and Silvia Massini -- 9. Why Innovative Activities Cluster / Christian DeBresson --

10. Innovative Clusters in Italy (1981-85) / Christian DeBresson, Giorgio Sirilli, Johanne Lemay, Xiaoping Hu and Fung Kwan Luk -- 11. The Clustering of Innovative Activity in the French Economy: An Estimation / Philippe Kaminski, Christian DeBresson and Xiaoping Hu -- 12. The Location of Innovative Activity in China (1992) / Shiqing Xu, Christian DeBresson and Xiaoping Hu -- 13. Long-term Innovative Clusters in a Small, Open, Industrialized Economy: Canada (1945-79) / Christian DeBresson -- 14. Locating Innovative Activities in a Semi-industrialized Economy: Greece / Nikos Vernardakis -- 15. New Locational Factors for the Creation of Technical Knowledge / Christian DeBresson -- 16. Geographic Location of Innovative Networks in Canada (1945-79) / Christian DeBresson -- 17. The Regional Location of Innovative Networks in Italy (1981-85): Third Italy or Lombardy? / Alberto Silvani, Christian DeBresson, Astrid Berni and Xiaoping Hu --

18. Innovative Self-sufficiency or Regional Interdependence: Lombardy and the Rest of Italy / Alberto Silvani, Franco Cancemi, Christian DeBresson and Xiaoping Hu -- 19. The Regional Location of Innovative Activity in France / Philippe Kaminski, Christian DeBresson and Xiaoping Hu -- 20. Toward Stochastic Theories of Innovative Activity / Christian DeBresson -- 21. Toward a Stochastic Model for Locating Innovative Activities / Christian DeBresson and Xiaoping Hu -- 22. From Static Structures to Dynamics: Specialization and Innovative Linkages / Esben Sloth Andersen -- 23. National Systems of Innovation and Input-Output Analysis / Bengt-Ake Lundvall -- Appendix 1 Methods and Instruments of Country Surveys -- Appendix 2 Additional Tables for Principal Component and Cluster Analysis in Chapter 8 -- Appendix 3 Methods and Calculations for Estimation of the French Innovative-activity Matrix in Chapter 11 --

Appendix 4 Stepwise Regression of Innovation-supply with Value-added Vectors for Each Industry for Italian Regions in Chapter 17 -- Appendix 5 Method of Estimation of the Bi-regional Innovative-interaction Matrix between Lombardy and the Rest of Italy Used in Chapter 18 -- Appendix 6 Estimation Method for Regional Location of Innovative Activities in France in Chapter 19.