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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2008 1(2):165-173; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsn015
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Innovation, networks and knowledge exchange

Susan Christophersona, Michael Kitsonb and Jonathan Michiec

a Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, 129 Sibley Dome, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. smc23@cornell.edu
b Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK. m.kitson@jbs.cam.ac.uk
c Kellogg College, University of Oxford, 62 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PN, UK. jonathan.michie@kellogg.ox.ac.uk

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   Introduction
 
A number of recent developments across the global economy have combined to put increasing emphasis on economic activity based on knowledge and innovation. This has been reflected not only in public policy towards universities but also in the approach of government—at national, regional and international level—towards both innovation policy and the formulation and promotion of national and regional economic strategies. These developments have included:

(i) the evolution of an ‘information economy’,
(ii) the increased variety and scope of innovation,
(iii) the development of ‘open innovation’,
(iv) the need for companies to become ‘learning organisations’ and for regions that wish to prosper on the basis of high-technology economic activity to become ‘learning regions’ and
(v) the globalization of economic activities which has intensified . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Varieties of innovation
 

   ‘Open’ innovation
 

   University–business interactions
 

   Knowledge exchange mechanisms
 

   Regional innovation policy
 

   The innovation exchange
 

   ‘No innovation without representation’?
 

   The globalization of technology
 

   Conclusion
 

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