Rethinking Regional Innovation and Change brings together papers from leading international scholars in the field of regional development and policy. The contributors examine the interactions between path-dependent developments, institutions, and governance structures that influence regional...

This book analyses the process of regionalisation and plots its future development. Regionalisation is a common feature of the changing territorial organisation of European states today. Regionalisation alone, however, cannot produce any of the benefits attributed to it without looking into the...

This volume focuses on frontiers in regional research and identifies trends and future developments in the areas of innovation, regional growth and migration. It also addresses topics such as mobility, regional forecasting, and regional policy, and includes expert contributions on disasters,...

Introduction -- Part I: Service Industries: Growth Factors, Globalization and Innovation -- Part II: Regional Aspects of FDI in Services, Export Decisions, Productivity and Employment -- Part III: Location of Service Industries: Cities, Internationalization, the Case of Some Specific Activities...

This contributed volume is the first book in English to offer a current and critical vision of regional problems and policies in the countries of Latin America. The book is in three main parts: a general overview of regional processes and trends in Latin America as a whole; country-level coverage...

The Spanish Experiences of Regional Policies -- Spain as a Case-Study: Regional Problems and Policies -- Regional Economy and Policy in Spain (1960-1975) -- The Evolution of Spanish Regional Policy, 1977-2008 -- Regional Growth, Structural Changes and Convergence -- Macroeconomic Effects of the...

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...

Knowledge as a Driver of Technological Change and Regional Growth -- Innovative, Technological, and Growth Capacities of the EU Regions -- Determinants of RISs' Efficiency of the EU Regions -- The Role of Intra-, Inter- and Extra-Regional Sources of Knowledge Spillovers in the EU Regions....