ABSTRACT
It is common to find scholars rediscovering some ‘old’ forgotten ideas but interpreting them in a new way and in a new context. Schumpeter’s work, for example, had been picked up by the neo-Schumpeterian school with a focus on the qualitative transformation of techno-economies that are essentially driven by the introduction of novelties (Hanusch and Pyka, 2007), and by students interested in entrepreneurs (Feldman and Francis, 2003). Friedrich List’s national system of competition had been repackaged under the label of national innovation system (Nelson, 1988) and later regional and local innovation systems (Cooke, 2004). There are also some works – because they emerged at the embryonic stage of a new phenomenon and are composed to meet a wider audience – that have been prescient and made more immediate impact. Castells and Hall’s Technopoles of the World: The Making of 21st Century Industrial Complexes (1994) is just such a work.
