Innovative Behaviour in Space and Time

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Overviews

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. An Interpretative Survey of Innovative Behaviour and Diffusion

      • Cristoforo S. Bertuglia, Silvana Lombardo, Peter Nijkamp

      Pages 3-16

   3. Spatial Dispersion of Technological Innovation: A Review

      • Evert Jan Davelaar, Peter Nijkamp

      Pages 17-40

   4. Technological Innovation and Diffusion Models: A Review

      • Amnon Frenkel, Daniel Shefer

      Pages 41-63

   5. Modelling Innovation Diffusion

      • Karmeshu, V. P. Jain

      Pages 64-74

3. Theories and Models

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Firms R&D Investments, Innovation and Market Shares

      • Domenico Campisi, Agostino La Bella, Paolo Mancuso, Alberto Nastasi

      Pages 77-95

   3. Innovative Behaviour and Complexity in Organized Systems

      • Mario Lucertini, Daniela Telmon

      Pages 96-117

   4. Technological Innovation, Transport and Location: A Comparative Examination of Four Analytical Models

      • Claudia Azzini, Cristoforo S. Bertuglia, Giovanni A. Rabino

      Pages 118-143

   5. Telematics, Location and Interaction Flows: The Telemaco Model

      • Silvana Lombardo, Sylvie Occelli

      Pages 144-171

   6. Innovation and Spatial Agglomeration

      • Dino Martellato

      Pages 172-182

   7. Structural Change in a Metropolitan Economy: The Chicago Region 1975–2011

      • Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, Philip R. Israilevich, Michael Sonis, Graham R. Schindler

      Pages 183-212

   8. Endogenous Technological Change, Long Run Growth and Spatial Interdependence: A Survey

      • Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot

      Pages 213-238

   9. Innovation and Strategy in Space: Towards a New Location Theory of the Firm

      • Maryann P. Feldman, Aydan S. Kutay

      Pages 239-250

4. Empirical Studies and Policies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251

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   2. Investment Policy and Innovation Management: An Exploratory Analysis

      • Kingsley E. Haynes, Fred Y. Phillips, Nitin S. Pandit, Carlos R. Arieira

      Pages 253-275

   3. Diffusion and Acceptance of New Products and Processes by Individual Firms

      • Marina van Geenhuizen, Peter Nijkamp

      Pages 276-290

   4. Innovative Capacity, Infrastructure and Regional Inversion: Is there a Long-term Dynamic?

      • Luis Suarez-Villa

      Pages 291-305

   5. Telecommunications Network Externalities and Regional Development: Empirical Evidence

      • Roberta Capello, Peter Nijkamp

      Pages 306-340

In the past decade there has been growing recognition that economic development is not mainly exogenously determined but, to a large extent, is a transformation process induced and governed by economic actors who respond to competitive, institutional and political challenge. This 'challenge and response' model is increasingly accepted as a valid analytical framework in modem growth theory and also explains the popularity of endogenous growth approaches to technological innovation issues. However, a major and as yet largely under-researched topic is the question of the diffusion and adoption of new technological changes in the context of space-time dynamics. This diffusion and adoption pattern has obviously clear spatial and temporal variations connected with behavioural responses which may vary over time and different locations. This means that a closer analysis of spatio-temporal opportunities and impediments is necessary in order to fully map the complex interactions of technology and economy in space and time. This volume sets out to bring together a collection of original contributions commissioned by the editors to highlight the spatio-temporal patterns and backgrounds of the diffusion and adoption of new technologies. Some are in the nature of a survey, others.have a modelling background and again others are case studies. The contributions originate from different countries and different disciplines. This book is complementary to a previously published volume on technological innovation, Technological Change, Economic Development and Space, edited by C.S. Bertuglia, M.M. Fischer and G. Preto, and also published by Springer-Verlag (1995).

• Regionales Wirtschaftswachstum
• Technologische Innovation
• agglomeration
• economic transformation
• economy
• growth
• network
• organization
• production
• regional development
• regional economic growth
• technological innovation
• transport
• urban milieu
• Ökonomische Transformation
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecniche per i Processi di Insediamento, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

  Cristoforo S. Bertuglia

• Dipartimento di Pianificazione Territoriale ed Urbanistica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy

  Silvana Lombardo

• Department of Spatial Economics, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Peter Nijkamp

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