: key drivers of innovation and models of knowledge exchange -- Local clusters and global networks -- Varieties of business … system and innovation -- Introduction to key research results -- UK ICT and biotechnology performance : the significance of …

"Delivering a global perspective, Clusters in Times of Uncertainty follows the transformation of clusters in a world … from Japan and Europe to explore the opportunities and challenges that clusters present in our modern age. Experts from … Valley cluster in Japan, to Polish National Key Clusters, to collaborations between Asia, Europe, and Latin America …

The role of innovations and clusters has increasingly dominated local and regional development policies in recent … decades. This authoritative and accessible Handbook considers important aspects of high-tech clusters, analyses insightful …

Institutions and the beginning of economic growth in eighteenth-century Britain -- The coevolution of institutions and … growth -- Market failures within poor institutions: the effects of bureaucrats' rent-seeking activity -- Government spending …

framework of and empirical evidence on fiscal institutions, covering budgetary rules and procedures as well as fiscal … decentralization, and reviews the theoretical framework for monetary institutions such as central bank independence, currency boards …1. A modified approach to development economics -- 2. The model and empirics -- 3. Fiscal institutions and empirical …

themselves. It contends that forces of globalisation influence individual countries' economic and social institutions …

The first book in this important new series, under the general editorship of Nobel Laureate Robert Solow, Institutions …1. The transformation of corporate organization in Europe : an overview -- 2. Adapting European labour institutions to … forms of growth : the economic institutions of a European model …

This comprehensive Research Review discusses seminal contributions by leading scholars on institutions and governance … in developing countries. It analyses key theoretical perspectives on institutions and the empirical evidence of the role … of institutions in economic development. Further, it explores the literature with particular focus on important …

between institutions and economic performance. The included works encompass seminal cross-country studies of 'whether … institutions matter', as well as leading examples of within-country studies on the role of specific institutions. This … indispensable volume includes an original introduction by the editor which explores the definition and measurement of institutions …