Measuring Regional Innovation. A Guidebook for Conducting Regional Innovation Assessments.

摘要

In the modern global economy, U.S. regions face a new economic development challenge. Traditionally, the regional economic development endeavor has been focused on attracting smokestacks, or, more recently, large service operations using tax incentives and access to inexpensive labor as the primary promotional tools. During the past few decades, however, the U.S. industrial landscape has transformed dramatically. Many labor-intensive industries in the U.S. have either shifted production to other parts of the world or disappeared altogether. In their place, the U.S. economy has developed a large number of industries where intellectual capital drives growth.