Canadian Journal of Regional Science articles from March 2001

Canadian Journal of Regional Science archives from March 2001

The Canadian Journal of Regional Science.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Letter from the Editor August 2001 This special issue of the Canadian Journal of Regional Science is devoted to learning and innovation and their implications for regional policy. The issue deals therefore with regional development...

Canada economic development for quebec regions.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Development economique Canada pour les regions du Quebec Michel Lapointe, Director Observatory and Economic Analysis Canada Economic Development Innovation has become a key concern for all stakeholders in economic development...

Learning and innovation: Implications for regional policy. An introduction.
March 22, 2001... Since the late 1990s, learning and innovation have captured the attention of an increasing number of researchers and policymakers: this interest, fuelled in part by the advent of the 'knowledge economy', and the changing ways in which...

From technopoles to regional innovation systems: The evolution of localised technology development policy.
March 22, 2001... This review of spatial innovation literature explores the evolution of initiatives to promote innovation by firms in local and regional settings. First stimulated by the evident success of Silicon Valley, California in the 1970s and 1980s, many...

Conditions-cadres et competitivite des regions : une relecture.
March 22, 2001... La mise en place de conditions-cadres favorables a l'investissement constitue un enjeu important pour le developpement regional Ces conditions definissent le contexte institutionnel dans lequel les entreprises evoluent. Elles jouent donc un...

Apprentissage et innovation: une analyse econometrique a partir de donnees d'enquete dans les entreprises des regions de quebec et de chaudiere-appalaches (*).
March 22, 2001... L'impact de l'apprentissage sur le processus d'innovation demeure meconnu et les etudes sur le sujet ne procurent pas suffisamment de resultats quantitatifs et fondes sur des donnees obtenues dans les entreprises (Lundvall 1997b). Les...

Regional learning between variation and convergence: The concept of 'mixed land-use' in regional spatial planning in the Netherlands (*).
March 22, 2001... The regional scale has come to play an important role in the discussion on learning in capitalist societies. Advocates of concepts such as 'Learning Regions' have even suggested that the region presents a highly appropriate level for organising...

Building regional innovation systems: Is endogenous industrial development possible in the global economy?
March 22, 2001... Globalisation: A Challenge for Local Industrial Policy Economic globalisation refers to the shift of the world economy towards an increasingly supranational functional integration co-ordinated by transnational corporations (TNCs) (Dicken et...

Systemes productifs localises, action publique et innovation: l'exemple de la [much less than] mecanic vallee [much greater than] (Midi-Pyrenees-France).
March 22, 2001... La configuration de l'industrie en Midi-Pyrenees permet d'isoler, au-dela du pole toulousain, plusieurs ensembles territoriaux caracterises par une concentration spatiale d'entreprises intervenant dans des secteurs d'activites relativement...

Innovations, institutions and territory: Regional Innovations Systems in Canada. (Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
March 22, 2001... Innovations, Institutions and Territory: Regional Innovations Systems in Canada. J. Adam Holbrook and David Wolfe. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-88911-891-4, $22.95. This book consists of a collection...