Bücher der Reihe Regions and Cities

The contributions included in this book explore the emergence of entrepreneurship policies from a transatlantic comparative perspective and address different aspects of entrepreneurship policies including local entrepreneurship policies and the relationship between knowledge-based industries and entrepreneurship policies.

This book is designed to broaden and deepen the understanding of the current and future structure and geography of the information technology industry in the Asia Pacific region.

This important book examines the ways in which community economic development can contribute to local and regional regeneration. It presents a unique overview of the state of contemporary British practice in this important policy area.

Analyzes devolution as it affects the English Regions, working from the perspective of uneven development, and drawing on the tradition of regional geography. This book looks at how this regional structure has arisen, and the theories that can be used to analyze it. It devotes a chapter to each English region.

European macro-regions, Euroregions and other forms of inter-regional, cross-border cooperation have helped to shape new scenarios and new relational spaces which may generate opportunities for economic development, while redefining the political and economic meaning of national borders. This book is based on a number of key case studies which are crucial to understanding the complex web of political, economic and cultural factors that shape the heterogeneous picture of Europe¿s new geography.

Plenty has been written on the competitiveness of megacities, capital cities and regional hubs. Cities in developing countries have not yet received the same attention ¿ this book fills that gap. An international team of academics have compiled a comprehensive study of the competitiveness of cities in the developing world.

In cities around the world, digital technologies are utilized to manage city services and infrastructures, govern urban life, and to drive local and regional economies. This book, through a range of international case studies, suggests social, political and practical interventions that would enable more equitable and just smart cities.

This book looks at the economy of Scotland from every angle ¿ from the oil and gas sector to the labour market and education; from the country¿s financial sector to inequality and poverty, bringing together a team of experts in their fields to provide an assessment of the current state of the nation.

In recent decades, the importance of creative cluster development has gained recognition from national and regional governments. Increasingly, governments have been investing in initiatives and urban development plans that aim to create or support localized creative industries.

The volume highlights ongoing changes in the political economy of small cities in relation to the field of culture and leisure. Culture and leisure are focal points both to local entrepreneurship and to planning by city governments, which means that these developments are subject to market dynamics as well as to political discourse and action. Public-private partnerships as well as conflicts of interests characterise the field, and a major issue related to the strategic development of culture and leisure is the balance between market and welfare.

This book shows, first of all, that leadership plays a crucial role in reinventing regions and branching out from an old path to something new in order to create more balanced and sustainable regional development. Second, it maintains that leadership is not a solo but a multi-agent and -level activity and that it needs to be discussed and studied as such. Third, as the book argues, leadership is shaped differently in various institutional and cultural contexts and on different scales. This book explores the ways leadership plays our in regional development context contributing to economically, socially and ecologically balanced sustainable future.

Across Europe, regional development agencies (RDAs) have become a central feature of regional policy, both as innovative policy-makers and as the implementers of programmes and initiatives originating from the national or European level. By drawing on a combination of conceptual reflection, surveys, comparative research, and systematic use of critical case studies, this book provides a new point of reference by identifying key features of the current, and, indeed next, generation of regionally-based economic development organisations.

This book draws on work from across northern Europe and is parallel and complementary to the network itself. By establishing an intellectual and practically orientated framework and platform, and by bringing together contributions defining the state-of-the-art and potential development paths in the field, it is the first volume to offer a systematic and scientific view from the periphery.

The volume highlights ongoing changes in the political economy of small cities in relation to the field of culture and leisure. Culture and leisure are focal points both to local entrepreneurship and to planning by city governments, which means that these developments are subject to market dynamics as well as to political discourse and action. Public-private partnerships as well as conflicts of interests characterise the field, and a major issue related to the strategic development of culture and leisure is the balance between market and welfare.

"Regional Studies Association, the International Forum for Regional Development Policy and Research"--Cover.

Intends to question narrow explanations, rigid territorializations, and simplistic policy frameworks. This book offers evidence that innovation, while not exclusively dependent on regional contexts, can be influenced by place-specific attributes.

In this new volume, 28 Scandinavian researchers and others who are active in arts and culture seek to answer the questions: What has been the effect of regional and local investment in arts and culture? What positive and negative experiences have there been? This book describes and analyzes the extent to which cultural investments at local and regional levels have stimulated development and led to essential processes of change for the community in general.

This book examines the role of the multinational firms in processes of European integration.

Offers a look at the impact of bottom-up neighbourhood based initiatives. This book analyses and documents a variety of local urban strategies in European cities and their impact on wider urban socio-economic and political restructuring processes.

Examines the challenges and opportunities created by global migration at the start of the 21st century. This book places particular emphasis on the growth of immigration to the United States in the 1990s and early 2000s and also provides insights on the complex relationships between federal and state politics and regulation.

Examines some of the evolving challenges faced by EU regional policy in light of enlargement and to assess some of the approaches and trends in terms of territorial development policy and practice that are emerging out of this process.

An important synthesis of economic geography and industrial relations work, this book marks a major contribution towards the newly emerging field of labour geography.

The analysis of clusters and industrial districts has often been limited, considering only the local dimension of the created business networks. The external links of these systems have been under-evaluated. This book offers insights into the evolution of these systems and the internal-external mechanism of knowledge circulation and learning.

Explains the rise of intelligent cities with respect to the globalisation of systems of innovation. This book combines concepts and theories from the fields of urban development and planning, innovation management, and virtual/intelligent environments.

Focuses on regional creativity, analysing the different factors that can affect creativity process within regions in the knowledge economy. This work demonstrates that the regional and national public sectors have a significant role to play and shows how to generate a competitive advantage for regions in the knowledge economy in the global market.

Integrating theoretical and practical research, this work covers economic, social and territorial issues aspects of EU intervention. It provides a systematic view of the various stages of the policy cycle, looking at: the evolution of the problems; the design of the policy system; the implementation in practice; and the evaluation of effects.