ABSTRACT
In the emerging new collaborative economic order, innovation is achieved by an integrated process of collaboration between policymakers, business and society. Often, the focus for this collaboration is at a regional level. Creating Collaborative Advantage examines the trends in innovation policy that reflect this new thinking and regional focus. This book develops the view that collaboration is one of many ways of organising a competitive economy. It asks how, when and where collaboration is a meaningful way of organisation. It explores collaboration at business level, business networks between companies, and a wider collaborative coalition between business and public authorities. It is not a manual, a 'how to do it', because there is no single straightforward universal model to replace current orthodoxy on economic development, but it will enable people to learn. The contributors to this unique book have been involved with the implementation of some of the most outstanding examples of collaborative approaches, it therefore gives an outstanding picture of diversity, inbuilt comparisons and contrast, and debate between the cases. The co-authors give their understanding of these issues, but the book tries to establish some common understandings and bring the concept of collaboration to a larger audience, and to increase interest in a field which requires further exploration. Policy makers, advisers and administrators at all levels of government, those involved in research and development, and business leaders and educators, will find this book invaluable, together with readers having an academic interest in the subject of innovation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|52 pages
Programmes for Collaboration
part 2|60 pages
Governing Regional Development through Collaborative Networks
chapter Chapter 9|15 pages
Creating New Opportunities, Exploiting Possibilities and Learning From Differences
part 3|46 pages
Collaboration in Regional Innovation Systems
chapter Chapter 10|12 pages
Innovation and the Role of Diversity in the Globalising Knowledge Economy
chapter Chapter 11|10 pages
Changing Regional Collaborative Relations in a Global Economy
chapter Chapter 12|14 pages
Social Capital, Knowledge Flows and Collaboration. Example from the Agder Region, Norway
chapter Chapter 13|9 pages
Regional Innovation Networks and University-based Technology Transfer
part 4|61 pages
Collaboration as Strategy in and Between Organisations