Bootstrapping innovation economics means that cash flow from an earlier event is used to support subsequent investment events. The regional capital markets, based upon internet technologies, provide the mechanism for this bootstrapping of capital from one generation of innovation to the next

There are four areas of conflict of interest between the goals of democratically elected representatives in promoting regional technological innovation, and the goals of the senior managers of global corporations. These four conflicts involve:1. a conflict over information flows between...

The political and financial interests who benefit from the media's over-emphasis on startups tend to reap non-market rent-seeking rewards from their public relations efforts. When policy attention is focused exclusively on startups, rather than on the broader concept of how citizens in the...

In his recent discussion of regional innovation systems (RIS), Philip Cooke outlines the two starkly different interpretations of regional innovation systems. (Regional Innovation Systems, Asymmetric Knowledge and the Legacies of Learning, Draft 2007). He notes in his review, "Clearly, there are...