25: Green Jobs

Question 1

What are Green Jobs?

Answer 1

Return to focus on Economy
“Meaningful work at a living wage that reduces
environmental impacts and enhances environmental
quality”
Green Industry versus Greening of Industry

Question 2

REGIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS

Answer 2

“Regionally situated networks of
firms, human capital, public/
private associations, and
research and educational
institutions interacting in the
deployment of new and
economically useful knowledge”

Synonyms: Technopoles or
High Technology Complexes

Question 3

SPATIAL “SPILLOVER” IN RIS

Answer 3

Lots of research in the 1990’s and ongoing to
understand the suite of positive externalities (spillover)
that actors in an RIS may bring to one another:
Ø Development and sustainability of specialized pools of
labor
Ø Development of social infrastructure that supports
cluster (e.g., worker training, University R&D)
Ø Development flexible contracting networks (timely
service and cross-fertilization of innovation)