Creating Competitiveness

Edited by David B. Audretsch, Distinguished Professor, Indiana University, USA, and Professor, the aspire! Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Social Competence, University of Klagenfurt, Austria and Mary Lindenstein Walshok, Associate Vice Chancellor, Public Programs, Dean, University Extension and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego, US

• Contents:1. Creating Competitiveness: Introduction and OverviewDavid B. Audretsch and Mary Lindenstein Walshok2. Civic Governance, Social Learning and the Strategic Management of City-RegionsDavid A. Wolfe3. Innovation in Cities and Innovation by CitiesRobert D. Atkinson4. The Strategic Recombination of Regional Innovative Capacities: Public–Private Institutions as Knowledge BridgesGerald A. McDermott5. Enhancing Economic Growth? University Technology CommercializationShiri M. Breznitz and Neela Ram6. Academic Entrepreneurship: Lessons Learned for University Administrators and PolicymakersDonald S. Siegel7. Driving Regional Growth: The Growing Role of Policies to Promote ClustersCharles W. Wessner and Sujai Shivakumar8. Evolving Technologies and Emerging Regions: Governance for Growth and ProsperityThomas Andersson9. Collective Entrepreneurship: The Strategic Management of Research Triangle ParkDennis P. Leyden and Albert N. Link10. The Invention of San Diego’s Innovation EconomyMary Lindenstein Walshok and Abraham J. ShraggeIndex

’An impressive body of original and seminal academic scholarship, Creating Competitiveness is very strongly recommended for professional and academic library economic studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists.’