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Competitiveness, Localised Learning and Regional Developmentby Heikki Eskelinen; Ingjaldur Hannibalsson; Anders Malmberg; Peter Maskell; Michael Storper; Eirik Vatne
Routledge 1997; US$ 200.00This book points the way out of a dilemma created by recent industrial theory and policy: is it possible for countries which are not destined to be leading high-tech powers to take advantage of the current trend for increasingly open markets? more...
Regionalisation of Globalised Innovationby Ulrich Hilpert
Routledge 2003; US$ 178.00This book examines local 'Islands of Innovation' where research and industrial expertise are concentrated, along with areas where traditional industrial regions have passed through a process of innovative restructuring. more...
Innovation Networks and Learning Regions?by James Simme
Routledge 1997; US$ 67.95This book address key issues of understanding in contemporary economic geography and local economic policy making in cities and regions in the advanced economies. more...
Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratoriesby P. Cooke; A. Piccaluga
Edward Elgar Publishing 2005; US$ 40.00Today, the study of regions is central to academic analysis and policy deliberation on how to respond to the rise of the knowledge economy. Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories illustrates how newer types of regional analysis - utilising scientometrics, knowledge services measures and university networks, and concepts such as knowledge life cycles, experimental knowledge creation, and knowledge ethics - are leading to a perception that regional economies increasingly resemble knowledge laboratories. more...
Rethinking Regional Innovation and Changeby Gerhard Fuchs; Philip Shapira
Springer 2005; US$ 179.00Beyond path dependency and competitive convergence: Institutional transfer from a discourse-analytical perspective.- Tacit knowledge, path dependency and local trajectories of growth.- Regional transformation and regional disequilibrium: New knowledge economies and their discontents.- Switching ties, recombining teams: Avoiding lock-in through project organization?- Knowledge-intensive services as a key sector for processes of regional economic innovation: Leapfrogging and path dependency.- Entrepreneurship as a source of path dependency.- Geographical proximity and the diffusion of knowledge.- more...
New Forms of Governance for Economic Developmentby Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2004; US$ 100.00New forms of governance are emerging. Government, business and civil society are increasingly seeking ways to develop and pursue economic development strategies and solve socio-economic problems jointly. Each with a specific function, these new models complement each other to foster endogenous development and draw on every opportunity to apply local assets, skills and knowledge to promote competitiveness. more...
Assessment and Measurement of Regional Integrationby Zhang Xin
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 39.95Using a combined economic, political science and scientific approach, this book explores how regional integration can be measured and evaluated and delivers comprehensive answers. It looks at the methodological problems involved in designing monitoring tools for regional integration in a systematic way. more...
The Learning Regionby R. Rutten; F. Boekema
Edward Elgar Publishing 2007; US$ 40.00The aim of this book is to present a much-needed conceptualization of `the learning region'. The editors scrutinize key concepts and issues surrounding this phenomenon, which are then discussed in the context of recent literature. This unique conceptualization of the learning region presents a state-of-the-art exploration of theories. Leading scholars from across Europe, the USA and South Africa draw upon various disciplines to explain how regional actors perform regional learning, including: regional networks, industrial districts, the systems innovation approach, social capital and economic geography. Contrary to competing theories, this study takes a relational approach to the learning region. The book thus focuses on learning between regional... more...
Handbook of Regional and Urban Economicsby V. Henderson; J.F. Thisse
Elsevier 2004; US$ 140.00The new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics: Cities and Geography reviews, synthesizes and extends the key developments in urban and regional economics and their strong connection to other recent developments in modern economics. Of particular interest is the development of the new economic geography and its incorporation along with innovations in industrial organization, endogenous growth, network theory and applied econometrics into urban and regional economics. The chapters cover theoretical developments concerning the forces of agglomeration, the nature of neighborhoods and human capital externalities, the foundations of systems of cities, the development of local political institutions, regional agglomerations and regional growth.... more...
Spatial Econometricsby Giuseppe Arbia
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 139.00The new economic geography and the debate on regional economic convergence have drawn increasingly the interest of economists in the empirical analysis of regional and spatial data. However, even if the methodology for the econometric treatment of spatial data is well developed, there does not exist a book without strong pre-requisites that is easily accessible to economists. This book bridges the gap between economic theory and spatial econometric techniques. It is easy accessible to people with only basic statistical background and no prior knowledge of spatial econometric methods. It provides a comprehensive treatment of the topic by motivating the reader with examples and real data analysis. The volume provides a rigorous treatment, founded... more...









