Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories

Hi. Thought I’d pass along this flyer for a book from a colleague of mine in Italy. I was impressed when I was in Italy last May with their sophisticated approach to economic development with an emphasis on knowledge-based industries.

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—–Original Message—–
From: Andrea Piccaluga [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 10:59 AM
Subject: Book leaflet

Dear colleague,
attached you find the leaflet of a book edited by Phil Cooke and myself.

May be you will find it interesting for your university library.
Thank you and best regards.

Andrea Piccaluga

This year the R&D Management Conference will be held in Pisa, Italy, 6-8
July 2005. See
<https://mail.sssup.it/Session/36661-cDehnmYR4baQtb8lhY43//Redirect/www.radma.org/>http://www.radma.org,
for more details.

Andrea Piccaluga
Università di Lecce, Facoltà di Economia "Antonio De Viti De Marco",
Ecotekne, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, tel.0832-298794 –
fax 0832/298748, [email protected],
http://www.sssup.it/~picca/ and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, IN-SAT Lab,
Piazza Martiri della Libertà 33, I-56127 Pisa, Italy, tel.+39-050-883839 or
805 or 811 – [email protected], fax +39-050-883839 or 838

Projects

Questionario sulla gestione delle risorse umane nella R&S: compila on line
su http://centrolink.interfree.it/casi_r&d.htm

Regional Economies as Knowledge
Laboratories

Edited by Philip Cooke, University Research Professor
in Regional Development and Director, Centre for
Advanced Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK and
Andrea Piccaluga, Associate Professor of Business
Administration, University of Lecce and Research Associate,
Laboratory of Economics and Management,
St Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy

‘Today, the study of regions is central to academic analysis and
policy deliberation on how to respond to the rise of the
knowledge economy. Regional Economies as Knowledge
Laboratories illustrates how newer types of regional analysis
utilising scientometrics, knowledge services measures and university networks, and
concepts such as knowledge life cycles, experimental knowledge creation, and
knowledge ethics – are leading to a perception that regional economies increasingly
resemble knowledge laboratories.

In addition to these measures and concepts, the book features case studies and
assessments of policies implemented to facilitate regional engagement with the
knowledge economy, and a critique of ‘knowledge economy’ as ideology.The
importance of maintaining a balanced perspective in assessing the depth and reach
of the role of knowledge in the market economy is also examined

Contributors: H.W. Aslesen, F. Boekema, P. Cooke, G. Etxebarria, K. Frenken,
S. Grimes, F. Kitagawa, K.-J. Kosonen, M. Lorenzen, P. Maskell, A. Piccaluga, L. Poma,
R. Rutten, S. Sacchetti, M. Sokol, M. Sotarauta, E.Tavoletti, M.G. Uranga, F.G. van Oort,
M.C. White, K.Wolter
2005 272 pp Hardback 1 84376 821 6 £69.95
New from Edward Elgar Publishing …

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