This volume addresses the challenges faced by value-added networking and innovation both for firms' strategies and public policies in a context increasingly influenced by dynamics of interacting networks that underlie knowledge creation, diffusion, and utilisation.

Regional Development and Conditions for Innovation in the Network Society looks at fundamental changes at the start of the new millennium, as innovation is gaining increasing importance for local economic prosperity and the emergence of learning societies. While much attention has been devoted to information and communication technologies, this analysis shows that innovation infrastructures should be understood as a broad framework for social and economic activities transcending any specific technology, even if revolutionary, and should be tied to attitudes and behaviors oriented towards the...

The move toward sustainable energy production and use is one the most challenging and profound changes currently taking place in the world's established and emerging economies. Energy and Innovation: Structural Change and Policy Implications presents a series of informative case studies from Norway, the United Kingdom, Poland, the United States, Russia, Japan, and China that demonstrate how the pace of sustainable energy production differs by country. This variability is examined under three section headings: Part 1, Sustainable Energy Challenges and Policies; Part 2, Innovation Challenges in...