Re-framing Regional Development: Evolution, Innovation and Transition

393 Pages·2012·3.721 MB·English

by  Philip Cooke

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well as services. Accordingly, regional economies are innovating in new ways. Amongst these
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Finally, regional economies and societies are discovering that, from a ‘resilience’ perspective,
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they must find answers to the higher levels of governance with which they increasingly struggle.
In this respect regional economies are in ‘transition’ and regional processes are ‘emergent’.
The transition seeks to address the four crises, involving re-balancing, re-directing and re-
framing future policy and practice. This book describes many of the novel ‘framings’ involved in
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Re-framing Regional Development
Turbulence characterises the current global scene. This book uses complementary
theoretical approaches to understand and help prescribe policies to ‘re-frame’ the
regional development problem in turbulent times. These approaches are:
evolutionary complexity; evolutionary economic geography; emergence theory;
and resilience theory. From below, they address the four major crises creating a
‘perfect storm’ for societies and economics involving: the climate change crisis;
the energy crisis; the banking and fi nancial crisis; and the global economic crisis.
This book analyses and proposes ways in which regional economies, in
particular, are having to be ‘reframed’ to address these crises. First, many must
evolve in new ways, possibly moving back from the ‘service economy’ towards a
new, greener form of manufacturing goods as well as services. Accordingly,
regional economies are innovating in new ways. Amongst these are the quest for
‘relatedness’ within their own regional orbits, and promoting ‘modularity’ as a
mode of analysis and a policy stance to stimulate innovation across industry and
geographical borders.
Finally, regional economies and societies are discovering that, from a ‘resilience’
perspective, they must fi nd answers to the higher levels of governance with
which they increasingly struggle. In this respect regional economies are in
‘transition’ and regional processes are ‘emergent’. The transition seeks to address
the four crises, involving re-balancing, re-directing and re-framing future policy
and practice. This book describes many of the novel ‘framings’ involved in
understanding the new ways in which this major task is being addressed in theory,
policy and everyday practice.
Philip Cooke is Director and Research Professor in Regional Development at the
Centre for Advanced Studies, Cardiff University, UK.
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Re-framing regional development : evolution, innovation, and
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Regional planning. 2. Regional economics. 3. Industrial
clusters. 4. Technological innovations—Economic aspects.
I. Cooke, Philip.
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Contents
List of illustrations xii
Notes on contributors xiv
Preface xvi
1 Introduction: complex systems integration,
‘emergence’, and policy modularisation 1
PHILIP COOKE
PART I
Evolutionary transition space 27
2 A world in emergence: notes toward a resynthesis of
urban-economic geography for the twenty-fi rst century 29
ALLEN J. SCOTT
3 Regional resilience, cross-sectoral knowledge platforms
and the prospects for growth in Canadian city-regions 54
DAVID A. WOLFE
4 Forms of emergence and the evolution of economic landscapes 73
RON MARTIN AND PETER SUNLEY
5 Strange attractors and policy emergence: complex
adaptive innovation 95
PHILIP COOKE
PART II
Innovation and diversity 123
6 The health technologies sector in Oxfordshire: evolution
or optimism in regional development? 125
HELEN LAWTON SMITH