Philip Mccann, Les Oxley

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a timely, accessible review of our understanding of the complex links between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth. Expert contributions provide a thorough roadmap of the developments in research at the interface of these themes. It is a timely and accessible review of our understanding of the complex links between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth as well as a highly comprehensive roadmap of the range of issues addressed by research in these areas. Containing contributions from leading experts in the field, it discusses the most profitable ways forward for enhancing our understanding of arising issues from a variety of theoretical, empirical and institutional angles.

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Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth provides a timely, accessible review of our understanding of the complex links between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth. Expert contributions provide a thorough roadmap of the developments in research at the interface of these themes. * A timely and accessible review of our understanding of the complex links between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth * A highly comprehensive roadmap of the range of issues addressed by research in these areas * Discusses the most profitable ways forward for enhancing our understanding of arising issues * Contributions from leading experts in the field take a variety of theoretical, empirical and institutional angles

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781118427286
• ISBN-10: 1118427289
• Artikelnr.: 36519664

Autorenporträt

Philip McCann holds Endowed Chair of Economic Geography at University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He was formerly Professor of Urban and Regional Economics in the Department of Economics at University of Reading, UK. Professor McCann has been appointed as one of two Special Advisers to the European Commissioner for Regional Policy, providing expert counsel on matters related to the reform and future development of European Cohesion Policy. Les Oxley is Professor of Economics at University of Waikato, New Zealand, Adjunct Professor at Curtin University of Technology, Australia, and an affiliate of Motu Economic and Public Policy Research. His research interests include modelling and testing theories of economic growth, financial econometrics, energy economics and cliometrics. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Economic Surveys and sits on the editorial boards of several international journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors vii 1. Innovation
Entrepreneurship
Geography and Growth 1 Philip McCann and Les Oxley 2. Theories of Entrepreneurship
Innovation and the Business Cycle 5 Simon C. Parker 3. The Transatlantic Productivity Gap: A Survey of the Main Causes 25 Raquel Ortega-Argilés 4. A Survey of the Innovation Surveys 53 Shangqin Hong
Les Oxley and Philip McCann 5. Knowledge Dynamics
Structural Change and the Geography of Business Services 79 Tommaso Ciarli
Valentina Meliciani and Maria Savona 6. Multilevel Approaches and the Firm-Agglomeration Ambiguity in Economic Growth Studies 105 Frank G. van Oort
Martijn J. Burger
Joris Knoben and Otto Raspe 7. A Relational Approach to the Geography of Innovation: A Typology of Regions 131 Rosina Moreno and Ernest Miguélez 8. An 'Integrated' Framework for the Comparative Analysis of the Territorial Innovation Dynamics of Developed and Emerging Countries 159 Riccardo Crescenzi and Andrés Rodr'yguez-Pose 9. Regional Innovation Systems within a Transitional Context: Evolutionary Comparison of the Electronics Industry in Shenzhen and Dongguan Since the Opening of China 177 Wenying Fu
Javier Revilla Diez and Daniel Schiller Index 197