Ottakar's, created by Tintin enthusiast James Heneage in 1987, specialised in local books and centred its shops in small towns where there were no Waterstone's.
Narrative Science already has customers in this field, including websites specialising in local sport or news for young people.
Recently arrived licensees have raised the level of food on offer by a couple of notches, specialising in local produce, and the village fishermen keep the restaurant supplied with seafood for the specials board.
In addition, there is a medical technology-specialised local development agency that played a central role in the early phases of regenerative medicine (see Sotarauta and Mustikkamäki 2015), but as the role of intermediaries has been questioned in the Finnish innovation system, it has been disintegrating from more recent developments.
In the 1980s, he relocated to Queensland, the home of the "white shoe brigade", a clique of nouveau riche conservative businessmen who, in cahoots with local politicians, specialised in shady land deals and ostentatious coastline property developments.
Several innovations are promoted through government programmes - agri-tourism, farm visits to assist mental and physical well-being, specialised food products of "local and organic origin", and encouraging re-connections with environmental and cultural heritage through adoption schemes for native trees and wild animals.
Local weavers specialised in the production of kersey, a hardwearing and inexpensive woollen fabric that was often used for military uniforms; by the 16th century Halifax and the surrounding Calder Valley was the largest producer of the material in England.
They specialise in traditional local grapes and, in a typically Corsican exception, there is no VAT on local wine, so buying from the cellar is good value: most wines start at €5 and the most expensive cuvées reach €15.
