Innovation and Regional Growth in the European Union

✍ Scribed by Riccardo Crescenzi, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 226
• Series: Advances in Spatial Science
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book investigates the EU’s regional growth dynamics and, in particular, the reasons why peripheral and socio-economically disadvantaged areas have persistently failed to catch up with the rest of the Union. It shows that the capability of the knowledge-based growth model to deliver its expected benefits to these areas crucially depends on tackling a specific set of socio-institutional factors which prevents innovation from being effectively translated into economic growth. The book takes an eclectic approach to the territorial genesis of innovation and regional growth by combining different theoretical strands into one model of empirical analysis covering the whole EU-25. An in-depth comparative analysis with the United States is also included, providing significant insights into the distinctive features of the European process of innovation and its territorial determinants. The evidence produced in the book is extensively applied to the analysis of EU development policies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Theoretical Framework: A Spatial Perspective On Innovation and the Genesis of Regional Growth....Pages 9-29
Geographical Accessibility and Human Capital Accumulation....Pages 31-49
The Role of Underlying Socio-Economic Conditions....Pages 51-73
Knowledge Flows and Their Spatial Extent....Pages 75-82
Innovation In an Integrated Framework: A Europe-United States Comparative Analysis....Pages 83-114
What Can We Learn From the “Integrated Approach” To Regional Development? The Impact of EU Infrastructure Investment....Pages 115-146
The EU Regional Policy and the Socio-economic Disadvantage of European Regions....Pages 147-168
Conclusions....Pages 169-181
Back Matter....Pages 183-215

✦ Subjects

Regional/Spatial Science; R & D/Technology Policy; European Integration; Economic Geography