New Directions in Regional Economic Development

✍ Scribed by Charlie Karlsson, Åke E. Andersson (auth.), Charlie Karlsson, Ake E. Andersson, Paul C. Cheshire, Roger R. Stough (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 415
• Series: Advances in Spatial Science
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The emphasis of this book lies on emerging hypotheses, new methods and theoretic developments in the field of regional economic development. A further amplification is provided with a diverse set of cases extending this new way of thinking at the theory and methods level into policy and practice. The case studies range from a focus on Europe, Central and East Asia and North America. Considerable emphasis is laid on the role of entrepreneurship and innovation as drivers of economic growth and development on the sub-national regional level.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Innovation, Dynamic Regions and Regional Dynamics....Pages 1-33
The Pure Theory of Spatial Markets....Pages 35-46
Smith–Ricardo Specialization in the Presence of Tiring Effects....Pages 47-57
Dynamics of Innovation Fields with Endogenous Heterogeneity of People....Pages 59-78
Economics of Creativity....Pages 79-95
Simple Memes and Complex Cultural Dynamics....Pages 97-105
The Fashioning of Dynamic Competitive Advantage of Entrepreneurial Cities: Role of Social and Political Entrepreneurship....Pages 107-120
The Social Capital of Regional Dynamics: A Policy Perspective....Pages 121-141
Hidden Order in Traffic Flows Using Approximate Entropy: An Illustration....Pages 143-159
Regional Input–Output with Endogenous Internal and External Network Flows....Pages 161-176
Regional Unemployment and Welfare Effects of the EU Transport Policies: Recent Results from an Applied General Equilibrium Model....Pages 177-196
Infrastructure Productivity with a Long Persistent Effect....Pages 197-219
Science Parks and Local Knowledge Creation: A Conceptual Approach and an Empirical Analysis in Two Italian Realities....Pages 221-245
The Low Participation of Urban Migrant Entrepreneurs: Reasons and Perceptions of Weak Institutional Embeddedness....Pages 247-265
The Location of Industry R&D and the Location of University R&D: How Are They Related?....Pages 267-290
Growing Urban GDP or Attracting People? Different Causes, Different Consequences....Pages 291-315
Urban–Rural Development in Sweden....Pages 317-330
Patents, Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers in Europe....Pages 331-345
Co-authorship Networks in Development of Solar Cell Technology: International and Regional Knowledge Interaction....Pages 347-372
Off-shoring of Work and London’s Sustainability as an International Financial Centre....Pages 373-384
The Genesis and Evolution of the Stockholm Music Cluster....Pages 385-408
Back Matter....Pages 409-415

✦ Subjects

Regional/Spatial Science; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Economic Geography; Entrepreneurship