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Canada's Regional Innovation System : The Science-Based Industries
ISBN: 9780773572430
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Business/ Management; Economics; Engineering; Engineering: General;

Regional innovation systems, Jorge Niosi shows, are evolutionary complex systems in which each group of agents reacts to the behaviour of others as well as to public policy incentives. Canada's Regional Innovation System finds that Canada's biotechnology capabilities are widely distributed but solidly planted in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, with smaller centres in Calgary and Edmonton. However, the specific institutional structures (innovative firms, research universities, and public laboratories) of regional systems vary from one industry to another and evolve through time.

Jorge Niosi is professor and Canada Research Chair on the Management of Technology, Université du Québec à Montréal. He is also the author of Canada's National System of Innovation, Flexible Innovation: Technological Alliances in Canadian Industry, and thJorge Niosi is professor and Canada Research Chair on the Management of Technology, Université du Québec à Montréal. He is also the author of Canada's National System of Innovation, Flexible Innovation: Technological Alliances in Canadian Industry, and th