Growth and Innovation of Competitive Regions

by Fratesi, Ugo; Senn, Lanfranco

• ISBN13: 9783540709237
• ISBN10: 3540709231
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Foundations of Growth in Interconnected Territories
Regional Growth, Connections and Economic Modelling: An Introduction	p. 3
Sustainable Interrelated Growth: A Phenomenal Approach	p. 29
A Model of Local Development	p. 45
The Dynamics of an 'Innovation Driven' Territorial System	p. 59
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Regions Faced with External Competition
The Co-Evolution of Entrepreneurship and Clusters	p. 95
Learning, Innovation and Growth Within Interconected Clusters: An Agent-Based Approach	p. 117
Knowledge-Based Economy and Knowledge Creation: The Role of Space	p. 145
Systems of Innovation and Regional Growth in the EU: Endogenous vs. External Innovative Activities and Socio-Economic Conditions	p. 167
Some Conjectures on the Tie Between Digital Divide and Regional Disparities	p. 193
The Factors of Development in Advanced Regions
Interconnection-Infrastructure as a Prerequisite for the Development of Territories - The Role of Network Externalities	p. 217
Regional Growth and the Co-Evolution of Clusters: The Role of Labour Flows	p. 245
Intra-National Disparities, Regional Interactions and the Growth of Countries	p. 269
Creativity, Cultural Investment and Local Development: A New Theoretical Framework for Endogenous Growth	p. 281
Methods and Theories for the Study of Interconnected Territories
Modelling Individual Behaviour of Firms in the Study of Spatial Concentration	p. 297
The New Approach to Regional Economics Dynamics: Path Dependence and Spatial Self-Reinforcing Mechanisms	p. 329
Conclusions
What Policy for Interconnected Territories? Conclusions and Openings	p. 351
Index	p. 363
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