Social Innovations, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: Making Sense of Structural Adjustment Processes in Industrial Sectors, Regions and Societies

[Advances in Spatial Science] Geography,

[Advances in Spatial Science] Geography, Institutions and Regional Economic Performance || The ‘Bright’ Side of Social Capital: How ‘Bridging’ Makes Italian Provinces More Innovative

✍ Crescenzi, Riccardo; Percoco, Marco 📂 Article 📅 2012 🏛 Springer Berlin Heidelberg 🌐 German ⚖ 758 KB

The book aims to present “traditional features” of regional science (as geographical concepts and institutions), as well as relatively new topics such as innovation and agglomeration economies. In particular it demonstrates that, contrary to what has been argued by recent economics literature, both