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To Construct Regional Advantage from Innovation Systems First Build Policy Platforms

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It has become clear that the idea of regional learning is an inadequate way of evolving regional economic development because of numerous problems of composition or utilizing samples of one, learning legacies and delays and impossibility of repeat experience. So, perforce, to offset regional imbalances responsible agencies are having to explore solutions endogenously in greater measure. This means constructing regional advantage, not an easy thing to do, by integrating and exploiting a range of assets from economic strengths to knowledge assets, good governance and creativity. Of great importance in this is seeking to promote “related variety” among economic activities. Single innovations diffuse swiftly across technology “platforms” into related industries because absorptive capacity is high among them. The key trick in constructing regional advantage is designing appropriate policy platforms that mix variable policy instruments in an integrated and judicious manner. This paper maps out a theoretical approach enabling this to be accomplished.

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  • Philip Cooke, 2006. "To Construct Regional Advantage from Innovation Systems First Build Policy Platforms," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(2), pages 179-194, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:15:y:2006:i:2:p:179-194
    DOI: 10.1080/09654310601078671
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