Growth and Innovation of Competitive Regions
The Role of Internal and External Connections
Editors: Fratesi, Ugo, Senn, Lanfranco (Eds.)
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This volume investigates the dynamics of regional performance in advanced countries and the mechanisms that allow some regions to grow more rapidly than others, to become and remain more competitive in the long run. The authors show how the capability of regions to innovate is enhanced by a large number of factors, including entrepreneurship, clustering, creativity, new technologies, human capital and the presence of internal, intra-regional, and external, extra-regional, connections. The book is mainly theoretical, but all chapters also analyze the policy consequences. Moreover, the empirical results reinforce the theoretical findings and as such are more broadly applicable and not bound to the specific case. The general reach of the theoretical arguments, and the focus on policy consequences, make this book helpful for both scholars and policymakers.
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“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)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Growth and Innovation of Competitive Regions
- Book Subtitle
- The Role of Internal and External Connections
- Editors
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- Ugo Fratesi
- Lanfranco Senn
- Series Title
- Advances in Spatial Science
- Copyright
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-540-70924-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-540-70924-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-540-70923-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-08991-6
- Series ISSN
- 1430-9602
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 368
- Topics
