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...

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...