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1. Innovation Governance in an Open Economy

   Shaping Regional Nodes in a Globalized World

   Edited by Annika Rickne, Staffan Laestadius, Henry Etzkowitz

   Series: Regions and Cities

   In an increasingly globalised world, paradoxically regional innovation clusters have moved to the forefront of attention as a strategy for economic and social development. Transcending international success cases, like Silicon Valley and Route 128, as sources of lessons, successful high tech...

   Published April 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Controversies in Local Economic Development

   Stories, strategies, solutions

   By Martin Perry

   Series: Regions and Cities

   Efforts to promote the economic development of individual localities engage the attention of academics, students and professionals. Many such analysts argue that competitive advantage can be fostered within local economies, complimenting the advent of a more globalised economy. Intensified efforts...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. Business Networks in Clusters and Industrial Districts

   The Governance of the Global Value Chain

   Edited by Fiorenza Belussi, Alessia Sammarra

   Series: Regions and Cities

   During the 1980s the Marshallian concept of industrial district (ID) became widely popular due to the resurgence of interest in the reasons that make the agglomeration of specialised industries a territorial phenomenon worth being analysed. The analysis of clusters and IDs has often been limited,...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
4. Complex Adaptive Innovation Systems

   Relatedness and Transversality in the Evolving Region

   By Philip Cooke

   Series: Regions and Cities

   Leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 and onwards, the shortcomings of traditional models of regional economic and environmental development had become increasingly evident. Rooted in the idea that ‘policy’ is an encumbrance to free markets, the stress on supply-side smoothing measures such as...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
5. Promoting Silicon Valleys in Latin America

   Lessons from Costa Rica

   By Luciano Ciravegna

   Series: Regions and Cities

   The spectacular economic performance of China, East Asia and India during the last ten years has ignited some profound changes in the world economy. The share of global demand, investments, trade and production of the traditional industrialized powers, the US, Europe and Japan, has gradually yet...

   Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
6. Creating Knowledge Locations in Cities

   Innovation and Integration Challenges

   By Willem van Winden, Luis de Carvalho, Erwin van Tuijl, Jeroen van Haaren, Leo van den Berg

   Series: Regions and Cities

   Based on a clear and comprehensive literature review, this book contains an analysis of five knowledge locations in Europe and one in South Korea. The case studies in the book cover several European countries (Ireland, Finland, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands). The cases are well grounded in the...

   Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge
7. Regional Development in Northern Europe

   Peripherality, Marginality and Border Issues

   Edited by Mike Danson, Peter de Souza

   Series: Regions and Cities

   This book draws on work from across northern Europe and is parallel and complementary to the network itself. By establishing an intellectual and practically orientated framework and platform, and by bringing together contributions defining the state-of-the-art and potential development paths in the...

   Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge
8. Just Growth

   Inclusion and Prosperity in America's Metropolitan Regions

   By Chris Benner, Manuel Pastor

   Series: Regions and Cities

   Breaking new ground in its innovative blend of quantitative and qualitative methods, the book essentially argues that another sort of growth is indeed possible. While offering specific insights for regional leaders and analysts of metropolitan areas, the authors also draw a broader – and quite...

   Published December 18th 2011 by Routledge
9. China and Europe

   The Implications of the Rise of China for European Space

   Edited by Klaus Kunzmann, Willy A Schmid, Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr

   Series: Regions and Cities

   What are the likely long-term implications of this shift to Asia for the cities and regions of Europe? To just ‘wait and see’ cannot be the response, nor the hope that the attractiveness of Asia will diminish over time and that the economic growth will slow down. Will Europe be able to retain its...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
10. Industrial Policy Beyond the Crisis

    Regional, National and International Perspectives

    Edited by David Bailey, Helena Lenihan, Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod

    Series: Regions and Cities

    After years of official disrepute, industrial policy (IP) is back in vogue at regional, national and international levels driven by concerns over competitiveness, globalisation, de-industrialisation, unemployment and the comparatively slow growth of the EU economy especially in this post-recession...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge