Drivers of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Regional Dynamics

✍ Scribed by Roger R. Stough, Robert J. Stimson, Peter Nijkamp (auth.), Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp, Roger R. Stough (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 398
• Series: Advances in Spatial Science
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The need for informed and effective insights into key concepts and models of regional development and growth, from an endogenous growth perspective, has risen over the past decade. These recent advances address in particular local and regional assets and characteristics comprising inter alia creativity, knowledge, innovation forces and entrepreneurship. Access to and exploitation of these modern forms of human and social capital are of paramount importance for the dynamic regional economic environment in a city or region. This volume offers an overview and critical treatment of the spatial-economic roots, opportunities and impacts of new growth strategies, mainly from an evidence-based perspective. In the various contributions to this volume, relevant findings and strategic options are interpreted and discussed from both an analytical and a policy perspective to help cultivate creativity, human capital development and innovation as well as entrepreneurial activity, with a view to exploit the drivers of economic development, in order to strengthen the competitive edge of cities and regions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
An Endogenous Perspective on Regional Development and Growth....Pages 3-20
Interregional Knowledge Spillovers and Economic Growth: The Role of Relational Proximity....Pages 21-43
Agglomeration and New Establishment Survival: A Mixed Hierarchical and Cross-Classified Model....Pages 45-63
Social Capital in Australia: Understanding the Socio-Economic and Regional Characteristics....Pages 65-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development: A Southern European Perspective....Pages 81-103
Productivity Spillovers, Regional Spillovers and the Role of by Multinational Enterprises in the New EU Member States....Pages 105-120
Determinants of Entry and Exit: The Significance of Demand and Supply Conditions at the Regional Level....Pages 121-141
Creativity and Diversity: Strategic Performance Management of High-Tech SMEs in Dutch Urban Areas....Pages 143-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Modelling Endogenous Regional Employment Performance in Non-metropolitan Australia: What Is the Role of Human Capital, Social Capital and Creative Capital?....Pages 179-204
Domestic Innovation and Chinese Regional Growth, 1991–2004....Pages 205-221
The Spatial Dynamics of China’s High-Tech Industry: An Exploratory Policy Analysis....Pages 223-243
Regional Psychological Capital and Its Impact on Regional Entrepreneurship in Urban Areas of the US....Pages 245-269
Incubators in Rural Environments: A Preliminary Analysis....Pages 271-290
Creative, Intellectual and Entrepreneurial Resources for Regional Development Through the Lens of the Competing Values Framework: Four Australian Case Studies....Pages 291-306
Regional Growth in the United States: Correlates with Measures of Human and Creative Capital....Pages 307-333
Front Matter....Pages 335-335
Exploring Regional Disparities in Employment Growth....Pages 337-358
Regional Branching and Regional Innovation Policy....Pages 359-368
Beyond the Creative Quick Fix Conceptualising Creativity’s Role in a Regional Economy....Pages 369-385

✦ Subjects

Regional/Spatial Science; Economic Growth; R & D/Technology Policy