Research and Technological Innovation

1. Introduction - Research, Technology, Innovation: Analysis and Cases
Alberto Quadrio Curzio, Marco Fortis

I. Scientific-Technological Innovation and Industrial Growth

2. The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth
Joel Mokyr

3. Local Systems and Networks in the Globalisation Process
Christian Longhi

4. The Dynamics of High-Tech Clusters: Competition, Predation, Synergies
Mario A. Maggioni

5. High-Technology Clusters: Specialisation and Interaction
G. M. Peter Swarm

II.. New Industry, European Framework and National Success Stories

6. New Science, New Industry and New Institutions? Second Thoughts on Innovation and Europe’s Universities
Paul A. David

7. EU Strategies for Research and Development
Ezio Andreta

8. Aiming at the Barcelona Target: Best Practices and National Performances. The EASAC Perspective
Uno Lindberg

9. The Locational Dynamics of the U.S. Biotech Industry: Knowledge Externalities and the Anchor Hypothesis
Maryann Feldman

10. The Cambridge Phenomenon
John Eatwell

11. Knowledge Capital and Economic Growth: Sweden as an Emblematic Example
Pontus Braunerhjelm

12. Relationships between Universities, Research Centers and District Firms: the Italian Case
Patrizio Bianchi, Laura Ramaciotti

Keywords: Economics/Management Science, R & D/Technology Policy, Economic Policy