Contents: -- -- Foreword xv -- David J. Teece -- -- Preface: Silicon Valley - a state of mind xx -- Jerome S. Engel -- -- 1 Introduction: Clusters of Innovation in the Age of Disruption 1 -- Jerome S. Engel -- -- PART I CLUSTERS OF INNOVATION: REFINING -- AND EXTENDING THE FRAMEWORK -- 2 Global Cluster of Innovation theory and practice in the -- 21st century: COI Components 13 -- Jerome S. Engel and Aline Figlioli -- 3 Global Cluster of Innovation theory and practice in the -- 21st century: COI Behaviors 35 -- Jerome S. Engel and Aline Figlioli -- 4 Major Corporations and Open Innovation: capturing value -- from disruptive innovation 81 -- Jerome S. Engel, Dickson Louie and David Charron -- 5 Business-model-led Clusters of Innovation: the case of -- Product Led Growth 115 -- Itxaso del Palacio -- -- PART II GLOBAL CASE STUDIES: REGIONAL AND -- URBAN CLUSTERS -- 6 The Munich high-tech region: development towards -- a leading European startup cluster 129 -- Helmut Schnenberger -- 7 The Oslo case: agile and adaptive responses to Covid-19 -- challenges by actors in local and globally extended health -- technology clusters 152 -- Per Ingvar Olsen and Morten H. Abrahamsen -- 8 Changing pathways: urban dynamics and governance at -- 22@Barcelona 181 -- Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway and Josep Miquel Piqu -- -- PART III GLOBAL CASE STUDIES: NATIONAL STRATEGIES -- 9 The development of Singapore's innovation and -- entrepreneurship ecosystem 206 -- Poh Kam Wong -- 10 State- and private-led Clusters of Innovation in China 245 -- Virginia Trigo and Chen Peng -- 11 Strategy for economic recovery from the COVID-19 -- disaster: Japan aims to become a startup nation again 269 -- Shigeo Kagami -- 12 Supporting innovation in India through a special Service -- Organization 292 -- Manav Subodh -- 13 Australian Sports Technologies Network: adding value -- through creating synergies 312 -- James Demetriou, Martin Schlegel and Danny Samson -- 14 Conditions for the implementation of a biotechnology -- Cluster of Innovation in Colombia: a benchmark of best -- practices with German clusters 341 -- Christian Bruszies and Carlos Scheel -- 15 The Brazilian innovation ecosystem takes off 425 -- Flavio Feferman -- -- PART IV CONCLUSION -- 16 Clusters of Innovation: lessons learned and final thoughts 420 -- Jerome S. Engel -- -- Index

This book is about innovation ecosystems, Clusters of Innovation (COI) and the Global Networks of Clusters of Innovation (GNCOI) they naturally form. What is innovation and why is it important to us? Innovation is nothing less than the ability for constructive response and adaptation to change. The cause and catalyst for that change is frequently identified as technology and its unceasing pressure to improve on existing solutions and address unmet needs. The last decade has painfully demonstrated that exogenous environmental shocks are also sources of change that call for innovative responses, ranging from the obvious challenges such as global warming and Covid-19 to the more subtle social and political perturbations of our time. Entrepreneurs, in collaboration with venture investors and major corporations can create a flywheel of constructive engagement, a cluster of Innovation, that helps build the resiliency of our communities to adsorb and rebound from these shocks. The process is enhanced when actively supported by government, universities, and other elements of the ecosystem. This book provides the tools for understanding this value creation process and the means to enhance it, in both emerging and mature innovation ecosystems.

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