James R Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 217213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James R Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | James R |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Deusto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6621-5002 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cluster management and policy learning: The value of strategic intelligence
This paper examines the role of cluster management organizations (CMOs) as intermediaries between firms and policymakers within cluster policies. Drawing on a six-year evaluation process in the Basque Country, it explores how the application of a strategic intelligence tool has supported policy learning and the refinement of CMO practices. Implemented in 2018 and 2022, this tool gathered feedback from cluster members on CMO activities and their i…
Britain’s First Net Zero: Turning the Lights On and the Railways Off 1953–73
This paper assesses a major transition in energy usage and distribution in the United Kingdom (UK) between 1953–73 as domestic coal gave way to electricity, and a centralized electricity generation and distribution system reached every home in the country. Our analysis significantly extends and reinterprets the business history of the National Grid by exploring the consequences of its completion. We argue that the National Grid facilitated the re…
Place-leadership and power in the futures domain: The case of Euskadi 2040
In an era when uncertainty and complexity are more tangible than ever, decision-makers are under pressure to turn from short-term politics and departmentalization to safeguard not only current wellbeing but also the wellbeing of future generations via longer term planning and visioning. In regions, as multilevel governance systems, no actor has the power to determine the decisions of others. Place leadership demands the mobilization of different …
Building policy capacities for tackling grand social challenges: Exploring the boundary-spanning potential of university research in the social sciences
El surgimiento de nuevos enfoques de política regional, incluido el conocido concepto de estrategias de especialización inteligente y la necesidad de hacer frente a grandes retos sociales, han puesto de relieve la importancia de las capacidades para el policy-making de los actores públicos y privados. Estos retos han aumentado, además, la presión sobre las universidades y su personal académico para que asuman un papel más comprometido con su terr…
The institutional challenges of dynamic regional innovation strategies
Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) are widely used to guide place-based innovation policy. However, there is little analysis of the institutional frameworks necessary for implementing multi-actor entrepreneurial discovery processes. This paper explores the evolution of institutions in the Basque Country region over a four-year period. It conceptualizes two levels of institutions: the overall architecture established to pursue an S3; and the mic…
Evidencing the benefits of cluster policies: Towards a generalised framework of effects
Regions around the world employ cluster-based policies as part of their industrial, innovation and development policy mixes. They have become a key tool in smart specialisation strategies and are increasingly used to address societal challenges. Given their popularity and longevity, there is significant demand to better measure and understand the impacts of cluster policies. Yet the diversity of cluster policies employed in different regional com…
Smart specialisation strategies and energy transition: An exploratory analysis of the case of the Basque Country
Energy transition is a core element of the sustainability transition around which the European Union’s post-COVID recovery strategies are built. While these strategies are being designed primarily by EU Member States, the regional level will be critical for their success. Firstly, because regions are key ‘implementers on-the ground’ of European and national policies. Secondly, because the lacespecificities of regions make them ideal ‘laboratories…
Estrategias de especialización inteligente y transición energética: Análisis exploratorio del caso del País Vasco
La transición energética es un elemento clave en la transición a la sostenibilidad en torno a la cual se están creando las estrategias de recuperación pos-COVID en la Unión Europea. Aunque dichas estrategias son diseñadas fundamentalmente por los estados miembros de la UE, el ámbito regional puede ser crítico para el éxito de las mismas. En primer lugar, porque las regiones son «actores clave sobre el terreno» de las políticas nacionales y europe…
Losing currency? The shifting landscape of the CFA franc zones
In light of proposed reforms to the West African Communauté Financiere Africaine (CFA) franc, as jointly announced by the French and Ivorian Presidents in December 2019, this article considers the changing economic and political backdrop of this post-colonial arrangement. It describes the factors that led to its creation and the elements that have enabled it to endure for over half a century, in contrast to non-Francophone Africa, where monetary …
Policy-mix evaluation: Governance challenges from new place-based innovation policies
Une approche néo-institutionnaliste des systèmes de gestion des pêches en Europe et en Amérique du Nord
L’article retient comme problématique la portée et les limites de la régionalisation des pêches, en s’appuyant sur les expériences en Europe, aux États-Unis et au Canada. Après un rappel de la dimension historique de la politique commune de la pêche en Europe, l’article offre une synthèse des principaux concepts tirés de l’économie néo-institutionnaliste et des travaux sur les systèmes socio-écologiques. Une approche comparée en Europe, au Canada…
Governance of the territorial entrepreneurial discovery process: Looking under the bonnet of RIS3
The notion of a territorial entrepreneurial discovery process has gained much traction through its appearance at the core of smart specialization strategies. This paper uses evidence from eight European regions to explore what in practice is conditioning the emergence of new forms of quadruple-helix governance that underpin this concept. The paper develops a framework that highlights the key factors that have conditioned the governance of RIS3 de…
Understanding regional innovation policy dynamics: Actors, agency and learning
Engagement in a Public Forum: Knowledge, Action, and Cosmopolitanism
Facing challenges to the civic purpose of higher education, some scholars and administrators turn to the rhetoric of engagement. Simultaneously, the political philosophy of cosmopolitanism has gained intellectual favor, advocating openness to the lived experiences of distant others. We articulate linkages between these two discourses in an extended case study, finding that a cosmopolitan ethos of engagement in a rural context can improve (1) unde…
Regional competitiveness policy evaluation as a transformative process: From theory to practice
Regional competitiveness policy evaluation is at an interesting juncture. Increasing demand for evaluation is emerging at a time when policy complexity is highlighting the limits of existing techniques. Moreover, widespread use of the concept of policy learning in conceptual analysis is not matched by experimentation and reflection that can articulate what policy learning means in practice. This paper explores the transformative role that evaluat…
Participatory evaluation: A useful tool for contextualising cluster policy
Insufficient attention is often given to the underlying context in which policies that seek to facilitate cooperation between firms are implemented, inhibiting their expected outcomes. This article analyses the processes involved in a participatory cluster policy evaluation experience that was designed to integrate fundamental and ongoing concern with context and how it interacts with the policy. The premise of the argument is that participatory …
Complex innovation policy systems: Towards an evaluation mix
Nested Methodological Approaches for Cluster Policy Evaluation: An Application to the Basque Country
Aranguren M. J., de la Maza X., Parrilli M. D., Vendrell-Herrero F. and Wilson J. R. Nested methodological approaches for cluster policy evaluation: an application to the Basque Country, Regional Studies. This paper explores the evaluation of cluster policies designed to support cooperation and networking. It examines the case of the long-running Basque policy, where support is provided for ‘cluster associations’. It first examines empirically th…
Shaping cities for health: Complexity and the planning of urban environments in the 21st century
A social capital approach for network policy learning: The case of an established cluster initiative
Regional development policies to foster innovation and competitiveness have evolved towards a ‘soft’ focus on facilitating relationships of cooperation. This is demonstrated by the popularity of network and cluster policies. However, the development of these policies poses particular challenges since there is insufficient understanding of the factors in the social structure that underpin networking behaviour and network outcomes. The analysis of …
Types of dialect accommodation in first-generation contact between adult speakers of mutually intelligible but regionally different varieties
This study reports on the linguistic behaviour of 39 university students from Moravia (in the east of the Czech Republic) living at a hall of residence in Prague, Bohemia (an area covering the west/central parts of the Czech Republic). In Bohemia, Moravian dialects and Standard Czech (SC) – an archaic and semi-artificial standard dialect that is rarely used in informal communication – are both stigmatised, although for different reasons. It has b…
Beyond cause and effects in the teaching of history: Examining human relevance and importance in the classroom through personal stories
Cette recherche appelle à la reconnaissance des différentes façons dont les étudiants en Afrique du Sud ont connue l’histoire dans les salles de classe et la nécessité de confronter les questions délicates qui en découle en raison des croyances. La pédagogie de l’histoire, dans cet article, n’est pas conçu en particulier en tant que ‘théorie de cause et conséquence’ par rapport au racisme. On le voit comme multidimensionnel impliquant une série i…
Adaptive Management of the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon World Heritage Areas
Conventional perceptions of the interactions between people and their environment are rapidly transforming. Old paradigms that view humans as separate from nature, natural resources as inexhaustible or endlessly substitutable, and the world as stable, predictable, and in balance are no longer tenable. New conceptual frameworks are rapidly emerging based on an adaptive approach that focuses on learning and flexible management in a dynamic social-e…
David Burrell, Faith And Freedom: An Interfaith Perspective.
David Burrell, Faith And Freedom: An Interfaith Perspective. Blackwell, Oxford, 2004, pp. 266, ISBN 1405121718.
The healthy development of economies: A strategic framework for competitiveness in the health industry
Applying a strategic decision-making perspective on the economics of business, we suggest that a competitive locality in the health industry is one that, relative to other localities, is effective in: (1) providing the healthcare that enables everyone to participate fully in the democratic development of the locality; (2) providing the healthcare that is democratically identified as a direct objective of this development; (3) contributing through…
Governance of the territorial entrepreneurial discovery process: Looking under the bonnet of RIS3
The notion of a territorial entrepreneurial discovery process has gained much traction through its appearance at the core of smart specialization strategies. This paper uses evidence from eight European regions to explore what in practice is conditioning the emergence of new forms of quadruple-helix governance that underpin this concept. The paper develops a framework that highlights the key factors that have conditioned the governance of RIS3 de…
New Letters of Robert Southey
Nested Methodological Approaches for Cluster Policy Evaluation: An Application to the Basque Country
Aranguren M. J., de la Maza X., Parrilli M. D., Vendrell-Herrero F. and Wilson J. R. Nested methodological approaches for cluster policy evaluation: an application to the Basque Country, Regional Studies. This paper explores the evaluation of cluster policies designed to support cooperation and networking. It examines the case of the long-running Basque policy, where support is provided for ‘cluster associations’. It first examines empirically th…
A social capital approach for network policy learning: The case of an established cluster initiative
Regional development policies to foster innovation and competitiveness have evolved towards a ‘soft’ focus on facilitating relationships of cooperation. This is demonstrated by the popularity of network and cluster policies. However, the development of these policies poses particular challenges since there is insufficient understanding of the factors in the social structure that underpin networking behaviour and network outcomes. The analysis of …
Adaptive Management of the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon World Heritage Areas
Conventional perceptions of the interactions between people and their environment are rapidly transforming. Old paradigms that view humans as separate from nature, natural resources as inexhaustible or endlessly substitutable, and the world as stable, predictable, and in balance are no longer tenable. New conceptual frameworks are rapidly emerging based on an adaptive approach that focuses on learning and flexible management in a dynamic social-e…
Economic Globalisation: Dialectics, Conceptualisation and Choice
This paper provides an analytical foundation for use of the term ‘globalisation’ when examining processes of economic development. A meeting ground is suggested for those that argue in favour of globalisation and those that are often, but in our view inappropriately, labelled as ‘anti-globalisation’. We see economic globalisation as a process in which new technologies and a new geography imply the possibility of strategic decisions that result in…
The institutional challenges of dynamic regional innovation strategies
Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) are widely used to guide place-based innovation policy. However, there is little analysis of the institutional frameworks necessary for implementing multi-actor entrepreneurial discovery processes. This paper explores the evolution of institutions in the Basque Country region over a four-year period. It conceptualizes two levels of institutions: the overall architecture established to pursue an S3; and the mic…
Losing currency? The shifting landscape of the CFA franc zones
In light of proposed reforms to the West African Communauté Financiere Africaine (CFA) franc, as jointly announced by the French and Ivorian Presidents in December 2019, this article considers the changing economic and political backdrop of this post-colonial arrangement. It describes the factors that led to its creation and the elements that have enabled it to endure for over half a century, in contrast to non-Francophone Africa, where monetary …
The healthy development of economies: A strategic framework for competitiveness in the health industry
Applying a strategic decision-making perspective on the economics of business, we suggest that a competitive locality in the health industry is one that, relative to other localities, is effective in: (1) providing the healthcare that enables everyone to participate fully in the democratic development of the locality; (2) providing the healthcare that is democratically identified as a direct objective of this development; (3) contributing through…
Evidencing the benefits of cluster policies: Towards a generalised framework of effects
Regions around the world employ cluster-based policies as part of their industrial, innovation and development policy mixes. They have become a key tool in smart specialisation strategies and are increasingly used to address societal challenges. Given their popularity and longevity, there is significant demand to better measure and understand the impacts of cluster policies. Yet the diversity of cluster policies employed in different regional com…
Understanding regional innovation policy dynamics: Actors, agency and learning
Engagement in a Public Forum: Knowledge, Action, and Cosmopolitanism
Facing challenges to the civic purpose of higher education, some scholars and administrators turn to the rhetoric of engagement. Simultaneously, the political philosophy of cosmopolitanism has gained intellectual favor, advocating openness to the lived experiences of distant others. We articulate linkages between these two discourses in an extended case study, finding that a cosmopolitan ethos of engagement in a rural context can improve (1) unde…
Types of dialect accommodation in first-generation contact between adult speakers of mutually intelligible but regionally different varieties
This study reports on the linguistic behaviour of 39 university students from Moravia (in the east of the Czech Republic) living at a hall of residence in Prague, Bohemia (an area covering the west/central parts of the Czech Republic). In Bohemia, Moravian dialects and Standard Czech (SC) – an archaic and semi-artificial standard dialect that is rarely used in informal communication – are both stigmatised, although for different reasons. It has b…
Photo Essay: The Rio Grande Borderland
The Rio Grande border of the United States and Mexico is over 1,000 miles long. This presentation of that border is by means of a photo essay interpreting the physical, economic, political, and cultural complex that has evolved. These photos were all taken in 1990 on a reconnaissance that followed both sides of the border for the entire distance from Ciudad Juarez and El Paso on the west to the Gulf of Mexico on the east. Numerous crossings of th…
Age and Group-Specific Cohort Effects on Personality Test Scores: A Study of Three Hawaiian Populations
There has been substantial social change in Hawaii in recent decades, with amount of change varying across ethnic groups and probably across sexes as well. If cohort effects have substantial influences on differences in personality test scores across age groups, then group-specific cohort effects should influence the magnitude of age correlations. We report correlations of personality test scores with age separately for members of three ethnic gr…
Assortative marriage for specific cognitive abilities in Korea
Age‐adjusted spouse correlations for performance on tests of specific cognitive abilities were substantially higher for couples tested in Korea than for Americans of European or Japanese ancestry tested in Hawaii. It was hypothesized that this greater spouse resemblance in Korea may be due to cultural factors such as the Korean practice of arranged marriages
Effects of Prolactin, Progesterone and Estrogen on Reactions of Nonpregnant Rats to Foster Young
In one experiment 3 virgin rats were given 5 daily injections of 20 mg. of prolactin, 3 were given 5 injections of 10 mg. of the same hormone, and 3 received control injections of sterile water. At the end of treatment each female was tested on 3 days for tendencies to retrieve foster young a few days old. Some retrieving occurred, but it was confined to 2 of the 3 control females. The 3 rats previously serving as controls were next injected for …
New Letters of Robert Southey
Assortative marriage for specific cognitive abilities in Korea
Age‐adjusted spouse correlations for performance on tests of specific cognitive abilities were substantially higher for couples tested in Korea than for Americans of European or Japanese ancestry tested in Hawaii. It was hypothesized that this greater spouse resemblance in Korea may be due to cultural factors such as the Korean practice of arranged marriages
Investigation of Periodicity in Crisis Intervention Calls over an Eight-Year Span
Over an 8-yr. period 36,268 calls were received by the Crisis Intervention Center of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between lunar phases and crisis calls. Pearson correlations were performed but no significant values were obtained. Exploratory Fourier analyses showed trends in the data not related to lunar phases. Findings appear consistent with those of other investigations of lunar influe…
Family background, cognitive ability, and personality as predictors of educational and occupational attainment
The addition of personality measures to measures of family background and of cognitive ability substantially increased prediction of the educational attainment of middle‐aged males and females. The addition of personality measures to measures of family background, cognitive ability, and own educational attainment substantially increased the prediction of the occupational attainment of middle‐aged males. Despite some differences, results generally…
Individual differences in sensitivity and tolerance to alcohol
Human responses to alcohol—especially sensitivity and acute behavioral tolerance—are being studied within a behavioral genetic design involving comparisons of scores from monozygotic twins, dizygotic twins, nontwin siblings, and unrelated (adoptee) pairs reared in the same family from infancy. The planned genetic analyses must await completion of data collection. The present sample is, however, adequate for analyses of means and for some analyses…
Development of an animal model of alcohol dependence
Students of the actions of ethyl alcohol have often divided these actions conceptually into avidity, sensitivity, tolerance, and dependence. Here at the University of Colorado Alcohol Research Center, we are engaged in development of an animal model for further study of the mechanisms which underlie dependence. To this end we are undertaking genetic selection for differential severity of the alcohol withdrawal syndrome in the laboratory mouse. Re…
Age and Group-Specific Cohort Effects on Personality Test Scores: A Study of Three Hawaiian Populations
There has been substantial social change in Hawaii in recent decades, with amount of change varying across ethnic groups and probably across sexes as well. If cohort effects have substantial influences on differences in personality test scores across age groups, then group-specific cohort effects should influence the magnitude of age correlations. We report correlations of personality test scores with age separately for members of three ethnic gr…
Technological Hazards in the Third World
Technological hazards are acute in the rapidly industrializing countries of the third world, where factories are concentrated in densely populated areas. Areas of technological hazards are delineated for India, and the catastrophe at Bhopal is the case study to analyze perceptual responses. TECHNOLOGICAL development has become a major contemporary issue, viewed by some persons as the source of hope for mankind. Developing countries particularly c…
Cultural Factors as Explanations for Ethnic Group Differences in Alcohol Use in Hawaii
(1987). Cultural Factors as Explanations for Ethnic Group Differences in Alcohol Use in Hawaii. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 67-75
Photo Essay: The Rio Grande Borderland
The Rio Grande border of the United States and Mexico is over 1,000 miles long. This presentation of that border is by means of a photo essay interpreting the physical, economic, political, and cultural complex that has evolved. These photos were all taken in 1990 on a reconnaissance that followed both sides of the border for the entire distance from Ciudad Juarez and El Paso on the west to the Gulf of Mexico on the east. Numerous crossings of th…
Landing Zones: Southern Veterans Remember Vietnam
Landing Zones: Southern Veterans Remember Vietnam
Journal Article Landing Zones: Southern Veterans Remember Vietnam. By James R. Wilson. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1990. xviii + 267 pp. $21.95.) Get access Landing Zones: Southern Veterans Remember Vietnam. By Wilson James R.. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1990. xviii + 267 pp. $21.95.) Joe P. Dunn Joe P. Dunn Converse College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, I…
The Structural Impact of the Capital Gains Deduction on the Canadian Tax System
James R. Wilson, The Structural Impact of the Capital Gains Deduction on the Canadian Tax System, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 21, Supplement: The Canadian Experience of the Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption (Oct., 1995), pp. S206-S224
Writing Across The Curriculum: A College Snapshot
This article describes a research project intended to yield data about the state of writing across the curriculum at one urban college campus site. The research included collecting writing from all courses of a random sample of freshmen-senior students during one college semester. Writing was coded and categorized according to audience and function. Data were analyzed, providing insight on, for example, audiences and functions by subject area and…
Economic Globalisation: Dialectics, Conceptualisation and Choice
This paper provides an analytical foundation for use of the term ‘globalisation’ when examining processes of economic development. A meeting ground is suggested for those that argue in favour of globalisation and those that are often, but in our view inappropriately, labelled as ‘anti-globalisation’. We see economic globalisation as a process in which new technologies and a new geography imply the possibility of strategic decisions that result in…
David Burrell, Faith And Freedom: An Interfaith Perspective.
David Burrell, Faith And Freedom: An Interfaith Perspective. Blackwell, Oxford, 2004, pp. 266, ISBN 1405121718.
The healthy development of economies: A strategic framework for competitiveness in the health industry
Applying a strategic decision-making perspective on the economics of business, we suggest that a competitive locality in the health industry is one that, relative to other localities, is effective in: (1) providing the healthcare that enables everyone to participate fully in the democratic development of the locality; (2) providing the healthcare that is democratically identified as a direct objective of this development; (3) contributing through…
Beyond cause and effects in the teaching of history: Examining human relevance and importance in the classroom through personal stories
Cette recherche appelle à la reconnaissance des différentes façons dont les étudiants en Afrique du Sud ont connue l’histoire dans les salles de classe et la nécessité de confronter les questions délicates qui en découle en raison des croyances. La pédagogie de l’histoire, dans cet article, n’est pas conçu en particulier en tant que ‘théorie de cause et conséquence’ par rapport au racisme. On le voit comme multidimensionnel impliquant une série i…
Adaptive Management of the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon World Heritage Areas
Conventional perceptions of the interactions between people and their environment are rapidly transforming. Old paradigms that view humans as separate from nature, natural resources as inexhaustible or endlessly substitutable, and the world as stable, predictable, and in balance are no longer tenable. New conceptual frameworks are rapidly emerging based on an adaptive approach that focuses on learning and flexible management in a dynamic social-e…
Types of dialect accommodation in first-generation contact between adult speakers of mutually intelligible but regionally different varieties
This study reports on the linguistic behaviour of 39 university students from Moravia (in the east of the Czech Republic) living at a hall of residence in Prague, Bohemia (an area covering the west/central parts of the Czech Republic). In Bohemia, Moravian dialects and Standard Czech (SC) – an archaic and semi-artificial standard dialect that is rarely used in informal communication – are both stigmatised, although for different reasons. It has b…
Shaping cities for health: Complexity and the planning of urban environments in the 21st century
A social capital approach for network policy learning: The case of an established cluster initiative
Regional development policies to foster innovation and competitiveness have evolved towards a ‘soft’ focus on facilitating relationships of cooperation. This is demonstrated by the popularity of network and cluster policies. However, the development of these policies poses particular challenges since there is insufficient understanding of the factors in the social structure that underpin networking behaviour and network outcomes. The analysis of …
Complex innovation policy systems: Towards an evaluation mix
Nested Methodological Approaches for Cluster Policy Evaluation: An Application to the Basque Country
Aranguren M. J., de la Maza X., Parrilli M. D., Vendrell-Herrero F. and Wilson J. R. Nested methodological approaches for cluster policy evaluation: an application to the Basque Country, Regional Studies. This paper explores the evaluation of cluster policies designed to support cooperation and networking. It examines the case of the long-running Basque policy, where support is provided for ‘cluster associations’. It first examines empirically th…
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Business (15 works) · Economics (15 works) · Geography (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Regional Development and Policy (11 works) · History (8 works) · History (7 works)