The move toward sustainable energy production and use is one the most challenging and profound changes currently taking place in the world's established and emerging economies. Energy and Innovation: Structural Change and Policy Implications presents a series of informative case studies from Norway, the United Kingdom, Poland, the United States, Russia, Japan, and China that demonstrate how the pace of sustainable energy production differs by country. This variability is examined under three section headings: Part 1, Sustainable Energy Challenges and Policies; Part 2, Innovation Challenges in Different Economic Contexts; and Part 3, The Adoption of Energy Solutions by Different Technology and Organization Sectors. Part 1 examines the challenges of increasing sustainable energy production. Part 2 presents challenges to innovation in different economic systems. Part 3 surveys the range of industry sectors that are adopting environmentally friendly solutions.
Foreword, by Peter Idenburg
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction: Fostering Innovation and Regional Development in the Global Learning Economy, by Marina van Geenhuizen, David V. Gibson, and Manuel V. Heitor
PART I: EMERGING CONCEPTS
Chapter 2. Innovation Infrastructures, by Keith Smith
Chapter 3. Pathways to Sustainability: Evolution or Revolution?, by Nicholas A. Ashford
Chapter 4. Innovation Networks: A New Approach to Innovation Dynamics, by Uli Kowol and Günter Küppers
Chapter 5. Rethinking Regional Development: A Changing Spatial Scene of Innovation, by Marina van Geenhuizen and Peter Nijkamp
PART II: TELECOM INFRASTRUCTURES—STRATEGIES AND IMPLICATIONS
Chapter 6. ICT as a Contributing Factor to Urban Sustainable Development: Policymaking in Dutch Cities, by Galit Cohen, Marina van Geenhuizen and Peter Nijkamp
Chapter 7. Telecommunications and Urban Development: Evidence from the United States, by Robert H. Wilson and John B. Horrigan
Chapter 8. Changing Homes and Cities Through the Use of ICT, by Hugo Priemus
Chapter 9. Utilization of Telecommunications Infrastructure: Efficiency, by Considerations and Output Consequences in the United States, by Serdar Yilmaz, Kingsley E. Haynes and Mustafa Dinc
Chapter 10. The Digital Divide in the United States: Measurement and Policy Issues, by G. Chris Rodrigo and Danilo Pelletiere
PART III: CONDITIONS FOR INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND HIGH-TECH CLUSTERS
Chapter 11. Towards a Different Regional Innovation Policy: Eight Years of European Experience Through the European Regional Development Fund Innovative Actions, by Mikel Landabaso and Bénédicte Mouton
Chapter 12. Mapping Networks of Excellence and S&T Competencies for Europe: Building on the Portuguese Experience in Evaluating Research Excellence, by Pedro Conceição and Manuel V. Heitor
Chapter 13. Measuring and Interpreting the Knowledge Economy of Regions, by Lambert van der Laan
Chapter 14. Design and Deployment of Human Infrastructure in Systems of Innovation, by S. Lipsett and Desmond Mullan
Chapter 15. Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Markets: Venture Capital and Electronic Commerce for Development?, by Lee W. McKnight and Jesse Parker
Chapter 16. High-Tech Valleys in the Low Countries? Entrepreneurship, Incubators and Clusters in the Netherlands and Flanders, by Harry Bouwman, Tom Elfring and Willem Hulsink
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