This paper examines the actors and activities and the institutional--spatial dynamics that characterize innovation and knowledge processes within the aquaculture industry and its support organizations in the coastal region of Quebec, Canada. It aims to identify the main features and components...

M<sc>elançon</sc> Y. and D<sc>oloreux</sc> D. Developing a knowledge infrastructure to foster regional innovation in the periphery: a study from Quebec's coastal region in Canada, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. Building on the case study of Quebec's coastal region maritime industry, the relevance of the regional innovation...

This article discusses the case-study of the Quebec?s maritime cluster. It discusses the factors that explain why significant innovation activities in maritime industry did not emerge in what might have been considered at the outset a promising area of growth of this industry and the Quebec...

This study examines the roles of innovation-support organizations in their acquisition and diffusion of technological ideas, solutions, and know-how throughout the marine science and technology innovation system. The research is based on a set of case studies that involved semi-structured...

Doloreux D. (2004) Regional innovation systems in Canada: a comparative study. Reg. Studies 38, 481-494. The Regional Innovation System (RIS) has become a leading approach in explaining the innovation processes and patterns experienced by firms and industries at the regional level. This paper...

This paper investigates the relative significance of local vs. distant forms of cooperation and knowledge sourcing in different knowledge-intensive sectors of the Ottawa region. Based on a recently completed survey of 172 firms, we address specifically the respective contribution of local,...

This paper investigates the use of external business services by exporting manufacturing firms, and questions whether this use is connected to their innovation behaviour. We examine this issue by analysing the association between different types of innovation (product, process, management, and...

<italic>L’objectif de cet article vise à vérifier s’il existe des dynamiques d’innovation idiosyncratiques au sein des régions satellites. Il s’agit, d’une part, de vérifier s’il est possible d’isoler des différences entre les régions satellites en matière d’innovation, et...</italic>

The aim of this paper is to verify whether there are idiosyncratic innovation dynamics in the satellite regions. Firstly, we verify if is possible to isolate regional differences between satellite regions with respect to innovation dynamics, and, secondly, we examine if these dynamics are...

The objective of this paper is to contribute to the empirical literature on innovation strategies and services, by analysing the use of knowledge-intensive services, and their impact on innovation, in manufacturing firms. The analysis is carried out at the firm level, on the basis of a survey...