Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Innovation Systems in a Global Context -- PART ONE: CONCEPTUALIZING INNOVATION SYSTEMS -- 1 Competitiveness, Sustainability, and the North American Regional System of Innovation -- 2 Techno­nationalism and Meso Innovation Systems -- 3 Making the Most of North American Integration: The Challenges -- PART TWO: NATIONAL SYSTEMS OF INNOVATION IN NORTH AMERICA -- 4 Canada's National R&D System -- 5 Mexico's National Innovation System in the 1990s: Overview and Sectoral Effects -- 6 The Triple Helix of Academia-Industry-Government: The U.S. National Innovation System -- PART THREE: REGIONAL SYSTEMS OF INNOVATION -- 7 The North American System of Innovation in the Global Context -- 8 The Regionalization of Production and Competitiveness in East Asia -- 9 The European Information Society and Regional Cohesion -- PART FOUR: EMERGING ISSUES IN INNOVATION SYSTEMS -- 10 Competitiveness and Complex Economic Integration in the North American Region -- 11 The Variable Geometry of Asian Trade: Trade and Competitiveness in North American-East Asian Interdependence -- 12 Stabilization, Structural Adjustment, and Labour Market Performance after NAFTA: The Mexican Experience -- 13 Sustainable Development and Technological Innovation in North America -- Contributors.