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
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Notes on Contributors vii
1. Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth 1
Philip Mc Cann 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 Mc Cann
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
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Philip Mc Cann 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 Mc Cann 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.
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