Price floors in greenhouse gas emissions trading schemes can have advantages for technological innovation, price volatility, and management of cost uncertainty, but implementation has potential pitfalls. We argue that the best mechanism for implementing a price floor is to have firms pay an...

Bill Beyers pioneered US studies of regional service economies from the 1970s, although I guess that he did not set out to do so. His interests were first based on a deep commitment to the study of his home state of Washington. Secondly, although his background was in the theoretical revolution...

The most powerful driver of regional and urban inequality in the UK for the past 15 years has been the economic success of the London region. Innovativeness in London does not arise primarily from technological initiatives, but from the labour intensive, knowledge-based processes characteristic...

In this paper we explore the spin-off process from London’s universities using a regional innovation systems (RIS) framework. We examine the pattern of spin-offs in the context of changes in institutional support systems, both within the universities and in the London region. The majority of...