This book is the first to take a comprehensive view of the challenges that population ageing present in the near future taking Sweden as the case. Can the increasing number of retirees per worker be stopped by immigration or increasing fertility or will we need to increase pension age instead?...

Resilience is increasingly becoming a catchword in current discussions about urban and regional development. While there has been a strong research focus on sustainability, there is a lack of understanding of the processes and factors that make cities and regions more vulnerable and others more...

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Issue of Regional Development -- Chapter 2. Growth and International Knowledge Spillovers with Firm Heterogeneity -- Chapter 3. Political Economy of Patent Policy and Economic Growth -- Chapter 4. Abundant Resource Endowments, Institutions and Economic Growth - A...