Systems of Innovation: Growth, Competitiveness and Employment

Edited by Charles Edquist, Professor, CIRCLE, Lund University, Sweden and Maureen McKelvey, Professor, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

• Contents:Volume I: Acknowledgements • Introduction Part IAn Introduction to Systems of Innovation1. Charles Edquist (1997), ‘Systems of Innovation Approaches – Their Emergence and Characteristics’Part IINational Systems of Innovation2. Chris Freeman (1995), ‘The “National System of Innovation” in Historical Perspective’3. Bengt-Åke Lundvall (1992), ‘Introduction’4. Parimal Patel and Keith Pavitt (1994), ‘National Innovation Systems: Why They are Important, and How They Might be Measured and Compared’5. Jorge Niosi, Paolo Saviotti, Bertrand Bellon and Michael Crow (1993), ‘National Systems of Innovation: In Search of a Workable Concept’Part IIIRegional Systems of Innovation6. Michael Storper (1995), ‘The Resurgence of Regional Economies, Ten Years Later: The Region as a Nexus of Untraded Interdependencies’7. Philip Cooke, Mikel Gomez Uranga and Goio Etxebarria (1997), ‘Regional Innovation Systems: Institutional and Organisational Dimensions’8. Alfred Marshall (1947), ‘Industrial Organization, Continued. The Concentration of Specialized Industries in Particular Localities’9. Anders Malmberg and Peter Maskell (1997), ‘Towards an Explanation of Regional Specialization and Industry Agglomeration’10. Anna Lee Saxenian (1996), ‘Inside-Out: Regional Networks and Industrial Adaptation in Silicon Valley and Route 128’Part IVSectoral and Technological Systems11. B. Carlsson and R. Stankiewicz (1991), ‘On the Nature, Function and Composition of Technological Systems’12. Erik Dahmén (1988), ‘“Development Blocks” in Industrial Economics’13. Stefano Breschi and Franco Malerba (1997), ‘Sectoral Innovation Systems: Technological Regimes, Schumpeterian Dynamics, and Spatial Boundaries’14. Richard R. Nelson (1996), ‘The Evolution of Comparative or Competitive Advantage: A Preliminary Report on a Study’15. Michael E. Porter (1998), ‘Clusters and the New Economics of Competition’16. William Lazonick (1993), ‘Industry Clusters versus Global Webs: Organizational Capabilities in the American Economy’17. Jan Fagerberg (1995), ‘User-Producer Interaction, Learning and Comparative Advantage’Part VCase Studies of Systems of Innovation18. Richard R. Nelson (1992), ‘National Innovation Systems: A Retrospective on a Study’19. Linsu Kim (1993), ‘National System of Industrial Innovation: Dynamics of Capability Building in Korea’20. Ludovico Alcorta and Wilson Peres (1998), ‘Innovation Systems and Technological Specialization in Latin America and the Caribbean’21. Susan Bartholomew (1997), ‘National Systems of Biotechnology Innovation: Complex Interdependence in the Global System’22. Bo Carlsson (1995), ‘The Technological System for Factory Automation: An International Comparison’Name IndexVolume II: Part IInteractive Learning and Networks of Innovation1. Stephen J. Kline and Nathan Rosenberg (1986), ‘An Overview of Innovation’2. Chris DeBresson and Fernand Amesse (1991), ‘Networks of Innovators: A Review and Introduction to the Issue’3. Bengt-Åke Lundvall (1988), ‘Innovation as an Interactive Process: From User-Producer Interaction to the National Systems of Innovation’Part IIEvolutionary Theories of Innovation4. Joseph A. Schumpeter (1979/1976), ‘The Process of Creative Destruction’5. Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter (1977), ‘In Search of a Useful Theory of Innovation’6. Giovanni Dosi (1988), ‘The Nature of the Innovative Process’7. Maureen McKelvey (1997), ‘Using Evolutionary Theory to Define Systems of Innovation’Part IIIInstitutional Theories 8. Charles Edquist and Björn Johnson (1997), ‘Institutions and Organisations in Systems of Innovation’9. John Zysman (1994), ‘How Institutions Create Historically Rooted Trajectories of Growth’10. Friedrich List (1885), ‘The National Division of Commercial Operations and the Confederation of the National Productive Forces’11. Nathan Rosenberg (1960), ‘Some Institutional Aspects of the Wealth of Nations’Part IVInnovations, Growth and Employment12. Moses Abramovitz (1989), ‘The Proximate Sources of Growth’, ‘The Search for Deeper Causes: Technological Effort as Investment’, ‘The Search for Deeper Causes: National and Historical Determinants’ and ‘Longer Thoughts about Long-term Growth’13. Birgitte Gregersen and Björn Johnson (1998), ‘How do Innovations Affect Economic Growth? Some Different Approaches in Economics’14. Richard R. Nelson (1990), ‘Capitalism as an Engine of Progress’15. Charles Edquist, Leif Hommen and Maureen McKelvey (1998), ‘Product Versus Process Innovation: Implications for Employment’Part VDynamics of Government Policy and Firm Strategy16. J.S. Metcalfe (1997), ‘Science Policy and Technology Policy in a Competitive Economy’17. Richard G. Lipsey and Kenneth Carlaw (1998), ‘Technology Policy: Basic Concepts’18. Maureen McKelvey and François Texier (2000), ‘Surviving Technological Discontinuities through Evolutionary Systems of Innovation: Ericsson and Mobile Telecommunication’19. Bo Carlsson and Staffan Jacobsson (1997), ‘Diversity Creation and Technological Systems: A Technology Policy Perspective’20. Michael Borrus and Jay Stowsky (1998), ‘Technology Policy and Economic Growth’21. Charles Edquist, Leif Hommen, Björn Johnson, Tarmo Lemola, Franco Malerba, Thomas Reiss and Keith Smith (1998), ‘The Systems of Innovation Approach and its General Policy Implications’ and ‘Specific Policy Implications of ISE and its Sub-projects’Name Index

'. . . these two big volumes achieve to demonstrate that there is a strong interest in using a system approach in order to study the mechanisms of innovation, of building capabilities and of economic growth.'