Creating Regional Wealth in the Innovation Economy: Models, Perspectives, and Best Practices

Preface

By 2003 there are expected to be 650 million worldwide users of the Internet. Yet, in this same world it is estimated that two billion people have never made a phone call.

The digital divide between wealthy and poor regions of the world is astounding. Yet, there may be hope that rapid adoption of the Internet and what we call the Innovation Economy (IE) in an expanding number of regions in the world may be able to change this daunting divide.

Creating Regional Wealth in the Innovation Economy: Models, Perspectives, and Best Practices is a guide to understanding how regions and businesses are successfully profiting from this dynamic change through the perspectives of those “entrepreneurial champions,” who are improvising new strategies, organizations, ...