Synopses & Reviews
What are the most favourable conditions for the generation of innovative ideas and forms of enterprise? Can they be stimulated by intervention policies? To what extent does the injection of new technology stimulate local economic development? Do Science Parks really work? It is increasingly important in a world of global competition to be able to provide answers to these questions. There is an urgent need for positive guidance to achieving the necessary economic and physical "reshaping" of our cities and regions. This volume provides a compact in-depth investigation of these issues, bringing together the work of leading scholars from a number of different countries who present insights gained from both theoretical and empirical research.
Table of Contents
Contents: Technological Change, Economic Development and Space: An Introduction.- Creation, Innovation and Diffusion of Knowledge: General and Specific Economic Impacts.- A Territorial Socio-ecological Approach to Innovation Diffusion, Schumpeterian Competition and Dynamic Choice.- Innovation, Communication Networks and Urban Milieus: A Sociological Approach.- Transportation, Communications and Patterns of Location.- The Interacting Choice Processes of Innovation, Location and Mobility: A Compartmental Approach.- Technological Change and Innovation Behaviour.- Company Classification and Technological Change: A New Perspective on Regional Innovation.- Innovation Adoption, Innovation Networks and Agglomeration Economies.- Network Externalities: Towards a Taxonomy of the Concept and a Theory of Their Effects on the Performance of Firms and Regions.- Industrial Dynamics and Rational Expectations in a Spatial Setting.- The Region as an Evolutive System.- The New Flexible Economy: Shaping Regional and Local Institutions for Global Competition.- High-tech Centres and Regional Innovation: Some Case Studies in the UK, Germany, Japan and Korea.- Concluding Comments.