Wealth from Diversity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

   PDF

2. Introduction

   • X. Vence-Deza, J. S. Metcalfe

   Pages 1-10

3. Changes in Structure and Relations between Productive Systems

   • Mario Amendola, Jean Luc Gaffard

   Pages 11-18

4. Economic Dynamics and Regional Diversity — Some Evolutionary Ideas

   • J. S. Metcalfe

   Pages 19-38

5. Uneven Technological Development

   • Parimal Patel, Keith Pavitt

   Pages 39-73

6. The Changing Economics of Technological Learning: Implications for the Distribution of Innovative Capabilities in Europe

   • R. Cowan, Dominique Foray

   Pages 75-101

7. Industrial Districts and the Globalization of Innovation: Regions and Networks in the New Economic Space

   • Richard Gordon

   Pages 103-134

8. The Diversity of European Regions and the Conditions for a Sustainable Economic Growth

   • Jean-Luc Gaffard, Michel Quéré

   Pages 135-143

9. Innovation, Regional Development and Technology Policy: New Spatial Trends in Industrialization and the Emergence of Regionalization of Technology Policy

   • Xavier Vence-Deza

   Pages 145-197

10. Strategic Technology Policy for New Industrial Infrastructure: Creating Capabilities and Building New Markets

    • Moshe Justman, Morris Teubal

    Pages 199-227

11. Local Synergy and Innovation in Peripheral Areas

    • Walter B. Stöhr

    Pages 229-240

12. Inter-Firm Cooperation: A Mode for the Internationalization of SME

    • Claire Charbit

    Pages 241-266

13. External Control and Regional Development in an Integrated Europe

    • Brian Ashcroft

    Pages 267-291

14. European Monetary Integration, Endogenous Credit Creation and Regional Economic Development

    • Sheila C. Dow

    Pages 293-305

15. Banking and Finance in the Italian Mezzogiorno: Issues and Problems

    • Marcello Messori

    Pages 307-342

16. The Regional Impact of the Internal Market: An Analysis for Lagging Regions

    • Michel Quévit

    Pages 343-360

17. Boosting European Growth: Strategies for Integration and Strategies for Competition

    • Sergio Bruno

    Pages 361-387

18. Back Matter

    Pages 389-395

    PDF

x. Vence-Deza & J.S. Metcalfe U. of Santiago de Compostela & U. of Manchester This book contains selected papers presented at the International Congress "European Periphery Facing the New Century" held in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, at the end of 1993. The general aim of this congress was to rethink the great economic and social changes in Europe during the last decade from a critical view, specially focused on peripheral regions and the conditions for an enduring process of development. Both economic, social and political changes affect the characteristic diversity of Europe and they have a special impact on the countries and regions that were traditionally known as the periphery within Western Europe. The list of concerns is long: regions with different levels of development compete within a new single market; the free movement of productive factors modifies the traditional pattern of industrial location, increasing tendencies to regional concentration shift the balance of income generation; new competitors enter traditional markets; information technology creates new possibilities of industrial organization and cooperation; competitivity is based on different capabilities to innovate and to promote structural change, and these capabilities differ among regions; traditional regional policies fail in the present even more than in the past. Hence the central concern of this volume, to explore the links between diversity and regional development.

• Economic Growth
• Import
• competition
• development
• european integration
• globalization
• growth
• internationalization
• regional development
• regionalization

• IDEGA, University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain

  Xavier Vence-Deza

• PREST and Faculty of Economics, University of Manchester, England

  John Stanley Metcalfe

Policies and ethics