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Cooperation, networks, and institutions in regional innovation systems
Fornahl, Dirk (ed.); Brenner, Thomas (ed.) - 2003
This book addresses the role of cooperation, networks and institutions in the context of regional innovation systems. It emphasises the importance of these factors in the emergence of local innovation systems, using detailed examples of clusters which have reached different stages of maturity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473758
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International trade and transport : spatial structure and environmental quality in a global economy
Steininger, Karl W. - 2001
The spatial dimension of international trade theory has been neglected during most of its history. Trade barriers such … tariffs, spatial considerations have gained in stature. On the way to fostering a spatial trade theory this book supplies a … comprehensive analysis of all the different impacts of the inclusion of space and transport costs, covering orthodox trade theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473881
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Urban and regional prosperity in a globalised new economy
Meadows, G. Richard (contributor); Sugden, Roger (contributor) - Institute-Milwaukee Workshop on Urban and Regional … - 2003
There is currently a popular view that the world is undergoing profound changes in the fundamental relationships upon which it is organised. In particular, there is widespread talk of a 'globalised' economy, facilitated by and associated with 'new' technologies and practices. There is a further...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850624
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Regional economies as knowledge laboratories
Piccaluga, Andrea (contributor); Cooke, Philip (contributor) - 2004
Today, the study of regions is central to academic analysis and policy deliberation on how to respond to the rise of the knowledge economy. Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories illustrates how newer types of regional analysis--utilising scientometrics, knowledge services measures and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850693
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Industrial location economics
McCann, Philip (contributor) - 2002
Because space is not homogenous, economic activities occur in different locations. Understanding the reasons behind this and understanding exactly how industries are spatially organized is the central theme of this book. Industrial Location Economics discusses different aspects of industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851118
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The rise of Asia : the 'flying-geese' theory of tandem growth and regional agglomeration
Ozawa, Terutomo - 2009
Terutomo Ozawa introduces a newly reformulated theory of 'flying-geese' economic development, exploring Asia's dynamic … growth and financial development. This unique book shows how the flying-geese theory can be expanded and applied to both the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852085
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The economics of networks
Casson, Mark (contributor); Della Giusta, Marina (contributor) - 2008
Games are too Dangerous', Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 5 (4), December, 311-41 -- Mark Casson and …: An Application of Option Theory to Participation in Village-Based Migration Networks', International Migration Review, 37 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852244
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A theory of local entrepreneurship in the knowledge economy
Julien, Pierre-André - 2007
of entrepreneurs' behaviour. Its dynamic presentation of holistic theory will prove an extremely absorbing read for those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419985
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Entrepreneurship and regional economic development : a spatial perspective
Groot, Henri L. F. de (ed.); Nijkamp, Peter (ed.);  … - 2004
entrepreneurial behaviour in a spatial context, and links it to important new fields in economics such as endogenous growth theory …, the new economic geography and evolutionary theory. Although most of the literature to date has failed to study the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473795
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Regional economic policy in Europe : new challenges for theory, empirics and normative interventions
Stierle, Michael H. (ed.); Jennings, Frederic (ed.);  … - 2008
Regional Economic Policy in Europe presents a tightly focused selection of policy, empirical and theoretical perspectives on contemporary dimensions of regional economic policy in the EU. It concentrates on three areas; the dissimilarities and resulting convergence of disparate regions within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474057