Growth and Innovation of Competitive Regions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Foundations of Growth in Interconnected Territories

   1. Regional Growth, Connections and Economic Modelling: An Introduction

      • Ugo Fratesi, Lanfranco Senn

      Pages 3-27

   2. Sustainable Interrelated Growth: A Phenomenal Approach

      • Alberto Bramanti, Massimiliano R. Riggi

      Pages 29-44

   3. A Model of Local Development

      • Giuseppe Folloni

      Pages 45-58

   4. The Dynamics of an ‘Innovation Driven’ Territorial System

      • Alberto Bramanti, Ugo Fratesi

      Pages 59-91

3. Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Regions Faced with External Competition

   1. The Co-Evolution of Entrepreneurship and Clusters

      • Christian Garavaglia, Stefano Breschi

      Pages 95-116

   2. Learning, Innovation and Growth Within Interconected Clusters: An Agent-Based Approach

      • Mario A. Maggioni, Stefano N. Roncari

      Pages 117-144

   3. Knowledge-Based Economy and Knowledge Creation: The Role of Space

      • Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello

      Pages 145-165

   4. Systems of Innovation and Regional Growth in the EU: Endogenous vs. External Innovative Activities and Socio-Economic Conditions

      • Riccardo Crescenzi, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

      Pages 167-191

   5. Some Conjectures on the Tie Between Digital Divide and Regional Disparities

      • Marco Alderighi

      Pages 193-214

4. The Factors of Development in Advanced Regions

   1. Interconnection-Infrastructure as a Prerequisite for the Development of Territories — The Role of Network Externalities

      • Anna Creti

      Pages 217-243

   2. Regional Growth and the Co-Evolution of Clusters: The Role of Labour Flows

      • Massimiliano R. Riggi, Mario A. Maggioni

      Pages 245-267

   3. Intra-National Disparities, Regional Interactions and the Growth of Countries

      • Marco Alderighi, Marco Percoco

      Pages 269-280

   4. Creativity, Cultural Investment and Local Development: A New Theoretical Framework for Endogenous Growth

      • Pier Luigi Sacco, Giovanna Segre

      Pages 281-294

5. Methods and Theories for the Study of Interconnected Territories

   1. Modelling Individual Behaviour of Firms in the Study of Spatial Concentration

      • Giuseppe Arbia, Massimiliano Copetti, Peter Diggle

      Pages 297-327

   2. The New Approach to Regional Economics Dynamics: Path Dependence and Spatial Self-Reinforcing Mechanisms

      • Domenico Marino, Raffaele Trapasso

      Pages 329-348

6. Conclusions

   1. What Policy for Interconnected Territories? Conclusions and Openings

      • Lanfranco Senn, Ugo Fratesi

      Pages 351-361

7. Back Matter

   Pages 363-368

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Time Time b a Space Space Time Time c d Space Space Fig. 1 Different possible scales for growth and innovation analyses spatial dimension, the sectoral dimension and the time dimension are represented. In Fig. 1a, regional developmentanalyses are revealed, where the economyis sliced vertically into regions and their dynamics are investigated. The study of the evolution of industries, typical of evolutionary industrial e- nomics, is represented in Fig. 1b, where the economy is divided horizontally into sectoral slices. This approach has progressed considerably in recent years (see Malerba 2006, for a recent survey). Modi?cations of industries have important spatial implications, which however are not normally at the core of these ana- ses even though spatial patterns of innovation differ greatly from sector to sector (Breschi 2000). Our approach operates in the manner of Fig. 1a and we will focus on regions, extending the analysis to industries only where this is regionally and structurally relevant. Hence, the approach in the book belongs to the tradition of regional development theories, but, in contrast to the more traditional analyses, we will not consider the region as an economic unit per se. Rather, interactions between and within regions are very relevant to the performance of individual regions in an integrated world and will be at the core of the analyses of the following chapters.

• Internal and External Connections/Networks
• Regional Competitiveness
• Regional Factors of Development
• Regional Growth
• Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• cluster
• development
• evolution
• growth
• innovation

From the reviews:

“The book has sixteen chapters grouped in five parts, and covers a wide range of topics in regional economics, innovation, and regional growth, and with varied approaches. … The editors and contributors have made a great effort to link the majority of the essays with each other. … Summing up, their book is a very useful one for empirical economists who need some theoretical background in dealing with regional innovation from an applied perspective, and it is also an important theoretical contribution to regional science.” (Ernest Miguelez and Rosina Moreno, Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 51 (1), 2011)

• Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

  Ugo Fratesi

• Università Bocconi, Milano, Italy

  Lanfranco Senn

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