About the Book
Resilience has lately emerged as a recurrent notion to explain how territorial socio-economic systems adapt successfully (or not) to negative events. Resilience, Crisis and Innovation Dynamics uses resilience as a bridging notion to connect different types of theoretical and empirical approaches, helping improve understanding of the impacts of economic turbulence at both system and actor levels.
Providing a unique overview of the recent financial crisis, as well as assessing the importance of innovation dynamics for regional resilience, the international array of contributors offers an engaging and thought-provoking debate as to how regional resilience can be improved as well as exploring the social aspects of vulnerability, resilience and innovation. In offering a set of challenges from different regional and structural perspectives, the book helps to consolidate the research surrounding resilience in regional science. Essentially, the contributions consider the relevance of innovation systems, knowledge networks and the role innovation actors play to create new possibilities for preparing for, and adapting to, both present shocks and future problems that may arise.
Offering a wealth of refreshing studies with great value for academia, industry and government, this book will be relevant for students and researchers of economics, urban and regional studies, and innovation as well as regional scientists and planners.
Contributors include: P. Bary, T. Baycan, M.B. Baypinar, M. Benke, A.B.S. Bravo, R. Comunian, P. Cooke, K. Czimre, A.S. Dogruel, F. Dogruel, L. England, A. Faggian, M.E. Ferreira, K.R. Forray, T. Heinonen, D. Kallioras, T. Kozma, B. Martini, S. Márton, F.J. Ortega-Colomer, B.S. Özen, Y. Özerkek, P. Pantazis, E. Pekkola, T.S. Pereira, H. Pinto, Y. Psycharis, M.M. Ridhwan, M. Sipikal, M. Siserova, R.R. Stough, V. Szitasiova, K. Teperics, B.J. Valencia
Table of Contents:
Contents:
Preface
PART I INTRODUCTION
1. Resilience, Crisis and Innovation Dynamics: Emerging Challenges
Tüzin Baycan and Hugo Pinto
PART II INNOVATION, CRISIS AND RESILIENCE
2. The effects of the global economic crisis on the innovation performance of EU countries
Tüzin Baycan and Berna Sezen Özen
3. The resilience of innovation systems under economic turbulence
Hugo Pinto and Tiago Santos Pereira
4. Learning regions for resilience in Hungary: Challenges and opportunities
Magdolna Benke, Klára Czimre, Katalin R. Forray, Tamás Kozma, Sándor Márton and Károly Teperics
5. Innovation support, resilience and regional development in Slovakia
Valeria Szitasiova, Miroslav Sipikal and Monika Siserova
6. The regional effects of macroeconomic shocks in Indonesia
Masagus M. Ridhwan and Pakasa Bary
7. Transversality, Resilience and Innovation: A Qualitative Regional Analysis
Philip Cooke
PART III LABOR MARKETS, EMPLOYMENT AND RESILIENCE
8. Labor market resilience and reorientation in disaster scenarios
Benjamin Jara and Alessandra Faggian
9. External Shocks and Regional Economic Performance in Turkey
A. Suut Doğruel, Fatma Doğruel and Yasemin Özerkek
10. Employment changes and regional resilience: An application of trade-adjusted shift-share analysis to the Greek regions
Yannis Psycharis, Dimitris Kallioras and Panagiotis Pantazis
11. Resilience, reorientation and variety: An analysis of Italian provinces after the 2007 economic shock
Barbara Martini
12. Role of engineering education in the transition of industry: Central steering or local resilience?
Francisco Javier Ortega-Colomer, Elias Pekkola and Tuomo Heinonen
PART IV CLUSTERS, INDUSTRIAL DYNAMICS AND RESILIENCE
13. Learning regions, clusters and resiliency: A typology of regional and cluster dynamics
Roger R. Stough
14. A case study of resilience: The footwear cluster of Northern Portugal
Maria Estela Ferreira
15. Innovation, technology transfers and regional competitiveness: A study for Oeiras Bio-pharmaceutical industry
Ana Santos Bravo
16. Resilience of Software Clusters and Turkey’s Experience
Mete Başar Baypınar
17. The resilience of knowledge from industrial to creative clusters: The case of regional craft clusters in the West Midlands (UK)
Roberta Comunian and Lauren England
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