Learning and Regional Innovation Development

Author: Ding Huafeng
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: The book is divided into eight chapters, primarily exploring some theoretical issues of regional innovation models from the perspective of the interaction between knowledge, learning, social capital, and regional sustainable development. The main contents include:
- Reviewing the theoretical and microfoundations of regional innovation;
- Systematically elaborating on the connotation and development process of learning regions;
- Discussing the relationship between knowledge, regional social capital, and regional innovation;
- Constructing an analytical framework for sustainable regional innovation systems suitable for China's actual conditions;
- Using the above theories to explain the scientific connotation of the "Shunde Model," arguing that Shunde's development represents the integration of regional innovation and regional sustainable development, serving as an effective practice of a knowledge-based, learning-oriented, and sustainable regional innovation system.
This book provides a new theoretical perspective for regions to fully implement the "Scientific Outlook on Development," facilitating the construction of regional innovation systems and regional development practices. It offers a theoretical tool for guiding underdeveloped regions in implementing "catch-up strategies" and for sustaining innovation in developed regions. The book includes eight chapters, namely: Research Review and Design, Theoretical Foundations of Regional Innovation, Microfoundations of Regional Innovation, Knowledge, Innovation, and Learning Regions, etc.