Creating Regional Wealth in
the Innovation Economy: Models, Perspectives, and Best Practices
Summary
From Ireland to Israel to
India, entrepreneurial innovation remains the #1 driver of economic success. This book
identifies how successful regions build dynamic, self-sustaining centers of innovation
across institutions in government, business, and non-profit organizations..
Jeff Saperstein and Dr.
Daniel Rouach illuminate the complex mix of reinforcing success factors that can help
regions set the stage for enduring long-term growth. Their extensive new research,
detailed case studies, and diverse interviews of entrepreneurial champions across many
societal sectors address economic policy, intellectual capital, labor costs, and many
other key issues.
Creating Regional Wealth in
the Innovation Economy demonstrates how regions with diverse geographic, socio-economic,
and political/institutional structures can leverage their unique strengths to successfully
"plug in" to the global innovation economy. It offers a comprehensive blueprint
for reaping the benefits of a vibrant, entrepreneurial marketplace?as an entrepreneur,
investor, policymaker, or individual professional seeking the right place to be.
- Leveraging
your region's unique strengths
- Building
regional centers of innovation
- Specific
techniques for regional business development specialists
- Public
policy actions that offer the greatest short- and long-term payback
- Identifying
the best regions for new investment
- How
companies and investors can choose locations with the greatest opportunities for success
- Taking
advantage of centers of innovation
- Practical
strategies for companies ranging from startups to multinationals
- Economic
policy, intellectual capital, labor costs, and other key issues
- Understanding
the complex interrelationships amongst all regional success factors
Building regional centers of
entrepreneurship?and sustaining them.
- The
key principles enabling regions to become centers of entrepreneurial excellence
- After
the dot.com collapse: The new dynamics of the Innovation Economy
- In-depth
perspectives from global leaders in business, government, academia, and nongovernmental
organizations
- Preface
by Mary Harney, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Enterprise, Trade, and
Employment
Silicon Valley. Taiwan.
Ireland. France. Sweden. Israel. Munich. When it comes to promoting entrepreneurial
culture, some places just seem to "get it right"serving as powerful magnets for
talent, money, and ideas, and as powerful incubators for tomorrow's best companies. Now,
drawing on extensive new research, Jeff Saperstein and Dr. Daniel Rouach pinpoint the key
reasons why some locations succeed in the quest to become centers of technology and
innovation?and sustain their competitive advantages over time while others fail.
This book answers the most
crucial questions about the world's entrepreneurial hotspots: What makes these locations
so special? Which local characteristics are inherent? Which can be fostered? What are the
best practices for business and government organizations that want to promote local
entrepreneurship and reach critical mass? And, most of all, what can be learned from the
dozens of high-level entrepreneurial champions who have given their wisdom and experience
so other people and regions may succeed.
350 page