Re-framing regional development : evolution, innovation, and transition / edited by Philip Cooke.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reframing regional development : complex systems integration,'emergence', and policy modularisation / Philip Cooke -- Evolutionary transition space -- A world in emergence : notes toward a resynthesis of urban-economic geography for the 21st / Century Allen J. Scott -- Regional resilience, cross-sectoral knowledge platforms and the prospects for growth in Canadian city-regions / David A. Wolfe -- Forms of emergence and the evolution of economic landscapes / Ron Martin and Peter Sunley -- Strange attractors and policy emergence : complex adaptive innovation / Philip Cooke -- Innovation and diversity -- The health technologies sector in Oxfordshire : evolution or optimism in regional development? / Helen Lawton-Smith -- Reframing regional innovation systems : evolution, complexity, and public policy / Elvira Uyarra and Kieron Flanagan -- Path dependence and new technological path creation in the economic landscape / James Simmie -- Proximity and innovation networks : an evolutionary approach / Pierre-Alexandre Balland, Ron Boschma, and Koen Frenken -- Cluster emergence and destabilisation -- Foresight and innovation : emergence and resilience of the cleantech cluster at Lahti, Finland / Helin✹Melkas and Tuomo Uotila --'Twilight of the gods' : the rise of Asia Pacific and Californian convergent media and the demise of Nordic Mobile Telephony in the ICT global innovation network / Philip Cooke -- The remarkable resilience of cities of art : the challenge of a new renaissance in Florence / Luciana Lazzeretti -- Socio-cultural dynamics in spatial policy : explaining the on-going success of cluster politics / Dieter Rehfeld and Judith Terstriep -- Evolutionary spatial policy -- Transformation of regional innovation systems : from old legacies to new development paths / Franz T诤tling and Michaela Trippl -- Path dependence and the state : the politics of novelty in old industrial regions / Kevin Morgan -- City-regions, innovation, and universities : the evolution and transition of uk urban governance institutions / Fumi Kitagawa.