Innovation Systems in a Global Context

Focusing on North America, Innovation Systems in a Global Context examines the nature of existing systems of innovation in the United States, Canada, and Mexico; the conceptual questions surrounding the analysis of such systems; trends towards the creation of supranational systems in East Asia, Europe, and North America; and some of the ecological, cultural, economic, and social problems confronting these large-scale systems.

Diana Alarcon, social development specialist, Inter-American Development Bank, New York John Alic, lecturer, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. Robert Anderson, professor, School of Communications, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Stephen S. Cohen, professor, Department of City and Regional Planning and co-director, BRIE, University of California, Berkeley Theodore Cohn, professor, Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Charles Davis, nserc-sshrc-nb Power-Xerox Chair in the Management of Technological Change, Faculty of Business, University of New Brunswick at Saint John, Canada Chad Day, professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Henry Etzkowitz, associate professor, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Purchase and Stony Brook Paolo Guerrieri, professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Rome, "La Sapienza," Italy Richard G. Harris, professor, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby British Columbia, Canada Michael Howlett, associate professor, Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Catherine Murray, associate professor, School of Communications, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Jorge Niosi, professor, Department of Administrative Science, University of Quebec at Montreal, Quebec, Canada Gilles Paquet, professor, Faculty of Administration, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada J. Carlos Ramirez, Centro do Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, Division de Economia, Carreteria Mexico-Toluca, Mexico DF, Mexico John Ravenhill, senior fellow, Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra Roberto A. Sanchez, professor, Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz Luc Soete, director, Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (Merit), Faculty of Economics, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands Kurt Unger, Centro do Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, Division de Economia, Carreteria Mexico-Toluca, Mexico DF, Mexico Sidney Weintraub, professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin Eduardo Zepeda, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies University of California, San Diego, and Centro de Investigaciones Socio-Economicas, Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila, Mexico