Cooperation, Networks and Institutions in Regional Innovation Systems

This compilation of papers from a researchproject funded by the German Ministry provides a political perspective andunifying concept of how local industrial clusters can be strengthenedbypolicy measures.The chapters in Part I cover theoretical approaches, thechapters in Part II present case studies, and the chapters in part III containpolicy-oriented contributions. (JSD) Table of Contents Part I Local Culture and Regional Innovation Networks: Some Propositions,Sylvianne Pilo and Chris DeBresson Entrepreneurial Activities in a Regional Context, Dick Fornahl The Role of Trust and Power in the Institutional Regulation of TerritorialBusiness Systems, Reinhard Bachmann Cognitive Coordination, Institutions and Clusters: An ExploratoryDiscussion, Mark Lorenzen and Nicolai J. Foss Problems and Solutions in Knowledge Transfer, Bart Nooteboom Learning Pathologies in Losing Areas: Towards a Definition of the CognitiveObstacles to Local Development, Paolo Seri On the Unit of Analysis in the Study of Networks, Deborah Tappi Part II Is Nanjing's Concentration of IT Companies an Innovative Cluster? MeinePieter Van Dijk TV Content Production in Media Regions: The Necessities and Difficulties ofPublic Policy Support for a Project-based Industry, Anja Lutz, Jorg Sydow,and Udo Staber How Many Networks in a Local Cluster: Textile Machine Production andInnovation in Brescia, Francesco Lissoni and Massimo Pagani 'Lock-in' of Regional Clusters: The Case of Offshore Engineering in the OsloRegion, Arne Isaksen Part III Entrepreneurship Stimulation in Regional Innovation Systems—Public Promotionof University-based Start-ups in Germany, Knut Koschatsky Cooperation and Knowledge-pooling in Clusters: Designing TerritorialCompetitiveness Policies, Fabrizio Barca Policy Measures to Support the Emergence of Localised Industrial Clusters,Thomas Brenner