Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction. Cities and Regions in the Twenty-First Century: Why Do They Develop and Change? -- Part I. The Economic Context of City and Regional Development -- 2. Workshops of the World Economy: People, Jobs, and Places -- 3. The Motor of Urban...

1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical Frameworks: A Spatial Perspective on Innovation and the Genesis of Regional Growth -- 3 Geographical Accessibility and Human Capital Accumulation -- 4 The Role of Underlying Socio-Economic Conditions -- 5 Knowledge Flows and Their Spatial Extent -- 6 Innovation in...

This book investigates the EU’s regional growth dynamics and, in particular, the reasons why peripheral and socio-economically disadvantaged areas have persistently failed to catch up with the rest of the Union. It shows that the capability of the knowledge-based growth model to deliver its...