Global knowledge flows are becoming a key driver of economic development. This book examines how countries can develop policies to reap the benefits that they bring.

This book examines the role that higher education institutions are currently playing through teaching entrepreneurship and transferring knowledge and innovation to enterprises and discusses how they should develop this role in the future.

This book presents and analyses interesting recent developments in the field of community capacity building, in a variety of OECD and non-OECD countries. The focus is on how CCB has effected change in three major areas: social policy, local economic policy and environmental policy.

This book identifies how development agencies and companies work, what they do and how they can collaborate and what constitutes success and value added in their efforts to achieve local economic development.

Global knowledge flows can be a key driver of economic development, by encouraging the inflow of new ideas. This publication considers how countries can develop effective policies that governments and development agencies at national and regional levels can adopt in order to stimulate the participation of firms and research organisations. Issues highlighted include: promoting cross-border alliances involving firms and universities; stimulating knowledge transfers from foreign direct investment ventures; attracting highly-skilled workers from overseas; and creating vibrant national and regional innovation systems. Examples are given from leading programmes in Scotland and other countries in Europe, North America and the Pacific region.

Explores the success of major innovation and entrepreneurship clusters in OECD countries, the challenges they now face in sustaining their positions and the lessons for other places seeking to build successful clusters.

This book looks at the importance and potential of cluster initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe. Existing clusters are mapped, recent policy advances are described and conclusions are drawn on the potential of business clusters to foster economic growth.