Front Cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The main research questions -- The structure of the book -- Part I: The Embeddedness of Innovation in Regional Agglomerations -- Chapter 1: Fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurship -- 1.1 Innovative Environments and the Importance of Proximity -- 1.2 The Concept of the 'Innovative Milieu' -- 1.3 The Evolutionary Theory of Technological Change -- 1.4 The Importance of Agglomeration or Cluster Economies -- 1.5 Re-conceptualising the Role of Learning in Regional Development -- 1.6 The Exploitation of Collective Learning: An Easy and Inexpensive Way to Innovate -- 1.7 The Importance of Networking for SMEs -- Chapter 2: Technological Innovation Policies in the EU and ASEAN Economies -- 2.1 The Emerging Global Knowledge Economy -- 2.2 The Evolutionary Development of Technological Policy in Europe -- 2.2.1 Policy Patterns in European Regional Agglomerations -- 2.2.2 The Industrial District of the West of England -- 2.3 The Evolving Nature of Technological Policy in ASEAN -- 2.3.1 Singapore: Building a Capacity for Learning -- 2.3.2 Malaysia's Technological Development -- 2.3.3. The State of Johor: the Southern Gateway to Malaysia -- 2.3.4 The Singapore-Johor Cross-Border Agglomeration and the Logic of Spillover -- 2.4 EU-ASEAN Technological Co-operation -- Part II: The Empirical Comparative Analysis -- Chapter 3: Innovation in the West of England -- 3.1 The Profile of Innovative Regional Firms -- 3.2 Regional Innovators and their Sources of Innovation -- 3.3 Regional Collaboration in Product and Process Development -- 3.4 Inter-firm Linkages, Networks and Collaboration -- 3.5 The Effect of Regional Specific Advantages on Firms' Development.

3.6 The Collective Learning Experience and Regional Channels of Knowledge Acquisition -- Chapter 4: Innovation in the Singapore-Johor Agglomeration -- 4.1 The Profile of Innovative Regional Firms -- 4.2. Regional Innovators and their Sources of Innovation -- 4.3 Regional Collaboration in Product and Process Development -- 4.4 Inter-firm Linkages, Networks and Collaboration -- 4.5 The Effect of Regional Specific Advantages on Firms' Development -- 4.6 The Collective Learning Experience and Regional Channels of Knowledge Acquisition -- Chapter 5: A Comparative Analysis of Patterns of Learning Behaviour and Co-operation in the West of England and Singapore-Johor -- 5.1 A Statistical Analysis of the West of England Sample Survey -- 5.2 A Statistical Analysis of the Singapore-Johor Sample Survey -- 5.3. Industrial Districts, Innovative Milieux, Growth Triangles or Global Knowledge Economies? -- Part III: Policy Lessons and Implications -- Chapter 6: The Relevance of the Economic, Political and Social Environments of Europe and South-East Asia -- 6.1 Market Cultures in the Economies of Europe and South-East Asia -- 6.1.1 Competing Models of Development -- 6.1.2 Implications for Policy -- 6.2 Recommendations: Facilitating the Development of Knowledge-intensive Enterprises -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Index -- Back Cover.