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Smita Srinivas, Kati-Jasmin Kosonen, Kimmo Viljamaa, and Juha Nummi
Varieties of Innovation and Welfare Regimes: The Leap from R&D Projects to the Development of City-regions, European Planning Studies,16:9,1267-1291
MIT IPC Local Innovation Systems Working Paper 08-001

Sachi Hatakenaka, Petter Wesnes, Martin Gjelsvik,
and Richard K. Lester
The Regional Dynamics of Innovation: A comparative case study of oil and gas industry development in Stavanger and Aberdeen
MIT IPC Local Innovation Systems Working Paper 06-003

Sachi Hatakenaka, Petter Westnes, Martin Gjelsvik,
and Richard K. Lester
From 'Black Gold' to'Human Gold'
A Comparative Case Study of the Transition from a Resource-Based to a Knowledge Economy in Stavanger and Aberdeen
MIT IPC Local Innovation Systems Working Paper 06-002

Juha Nummi
University - Industry Collaboration in Medical Devices Development: A Case Study of the Oulu Region in Finland
MIT IPC Local Innovation Systems Working Paper 06-001

Richard K. Lester
Universities, Innovation, and the Competitiveness of Local Economies: A Summary Report from the Local Innovation Systems Project–Phase I
MIT IPC Local Innovation Systems Working Paper 05-005 | IPC Working Paper 05-010

Kati-Jasmin Kosonen
Strengthening the Research and Educational Basis for Regional Development in Less-Favored Regions
MIT IPC Local Innovation Systems Working Paper 05-003

Smita Srinivas and Kimmo Viljamaa
Economic institutionalisation in practice: Development and the “Third Role” of Universities (a later version of this paper is forthcoming in the December 2006 Regional Studies, as "Emergence of Economic Institutions: Analysing the Third Role of universities in Turku, Finland")
MIT IPC Local Innovation Systems Working Paper 05-002

Markku Sotarauta and Smita Srinivas
The Co-Evolution of Policy and Economic Development: A Discussion on Innovative Regions
MIT IPC Local Innovation Systems Working Paper 05-001

Dan Breznitz
Diffusion of Academic R&D Capabilities as an Industrial Innovation Policy? - The Development of Israel's IT Industry
MIT IPC Local Innovation Systems Working Paper 04-005 | IPC Working Paper 04-006

Sachi Hatakenaka
Optoelectronics In Hamamatsu: In Search Of A Photon Valley
MIT IPC Local Innovation Systems Working Paper 04-004

Sean Safford
Why the Garden Club Couldn’t Save Youngstown: Civic Infrastructure and Mobilization in Economic Crises
MIT IPC Local Innovation Systems Working Paper 04-003

Sean Safford
Searching for Silicon Valley in the RustBelt: The Evolution of Knowledge Networks in Akron and Rochester
MIT IPC Local Innovation Systems Working Paper 04-002

Carlos Martínez-Vela and Kimmo Viljamaa
Becoming high-tech: The reinvention of the mechanical engineering industry in Tampere, Finland
MIT IPC Local Innovation Systems Working Paper 04-001

Markku Sotarauta and Kati-Jasmin Kosonen
Institutional Capacity and Strategic Adaptation in Less Favored Regions: A South Ostrobothnian University Network as a Case in Point
MIT IPC Local Innovation Systems Working Paper 03-003

Jari Kolehmainen
Territorial Agglomeration as a Local Innovation Environment: The Case of a Digital Media Agglomeration in Tampere, Finland
MIT IPC Local Innovation Systems Working Paper 03-002

Smita Srinivas and Kimmo Viljamaa
BioTurku: “Newly” innovative? The rise of bio-pharmaceuticals and the biotech concentration in southwest Finland
MIT IPC Local Innovation Systems Working Paper 03-001

Alok K. Chakrabarti and Richard K. Lester
Regional Economic Development: Comparative Case Studies in the US and Finland
MIT IPC Local Innovation Systems Working Paper 02-004

Alok K. Chakrabarti
Role of universities in the Product Development Process: Strategic Considerations for the Telecommunication Industry
MIT IPC Local Innovation Systems Working Paper 02-003

Juha Kostiainen and Markku Sotarauta
Finnish City Reinvented: Tampere's Path from Industrial to Knowledge Economy
MIT IPC Local Innovation Systems Working Paper 02-002

Michael D. Santoro and Alok K. Chakrabarti
Firm Size and Technology Centrality in Industry-University Interactions
MIT IPC Local Innovation Systems Working Paper 02-001

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