Is small still beautiful? The recent economic and financial crisis has shown that developed countries in which firms are smaller suffered the biggest GDP plunges. Today, economic growth depends more than in the past on sound and well-organized firms, which means more innovation, a better...

The need for informed and effective insights into key concepts and models of regional development and growth, from an endogenous growth perspective, has risen over the past decade. These recent advances address in particular local and regional assets and characteristics comprising inter alia...

The book brings together contributions by scholars from several countries and different “sister” disciplines (Economic Geography, Urban and Regional Economics, Innovation Studies) with different approaches to the same crucial issue: how geography, culture and institutions influence regional...

Diese Festschrift enthält Beiträge zur empirischen Regionalforschung, die für die Regionalpolitik von hoher Relevanz sind. Dabei wird ein breites Methodenspektrum verwendet, wie es für die moderne Regionalforschung heute kennzeichnend ist. Thematisch erstrecken sich die Beiträge von der...

Foreword -- Part I: Introduction -- Part II: Contesting Economic Ideas -- Part III: Teaching Political Economy -- Part IV: Economic Inequality -- Part V: Economic Policies -- Part VI: Cities and Regions -- Part VII: A Green Economy -- Part VIII: Conclusion.