After a description of the new forms of globalization currently shaping our world, and of their possible spatial effects, the book highlights which European regions have in the past succeeded in taking advantage of globalization trends and identifies the major reasons for their success. The book...

1 The Regional Dimension of Globalization: Past Trends and Future Scenarios -- Part A: National and Regional Globalization Processes -- 2 The EU in the Global Economy -- 3 Globalization and the Reshaping of Regional Economies: Favoured Territories -- Part B: Globalization and Regional Economic...

Entrepreneurial Competition and Industrial Location explores the notion of entrepreneurial competition from its theoretical foundations in early Austrian and contemporary evolutionary economics. Focusing on the structural development of the intangible factors of production such as labour skills,...