Regional scientists and geographers have long tried to uncover the keys to regional success through comparative studies. From Chinitz’s (1961) comparison of Pittsburgh and New York to Saxenian’s (1994) pairing of Silicon Valley and Route 128, these studies have generally adopted an...

This report summarises the findings of a case study project on growing clean-tech cluster activity in the Negev region of Israel as part of a series of reviews on Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development carried out by the Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Committee of the...

This article examines the ability of regional labour markets to rebound by growing the middle class or increasing wages. Using data on US metros, we identify regions that are transformative in terms of achieving a new equilibrium or reversing their path dependency. We then use discriminant...