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13 The Chaudière-Appalaches System of Industrial Innovations

1998; Springer Nature (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-1-4615-5551-3_13

2629-5091

Réjean Landry, Nabil Amara,

Regional Development and Policy

One should not foretell, as some have done, the end of the importance of regions from the observation that innovation takes place in a context of globalization. Indeed, the flows of exchanges in ideas, information, goods and technologies that take place at the local territorial level of the regions are based on institutional arrangements that permit the integration of explicit codified knowledge circulating at the global level with the tacit contextual knowledge mastered at the regions level. The identification of the institutional arrangements and determinants that explain these arrangements singularizes the studies on local innovation systems.