Edited by Trevor Barnes, Meric S. Gertler

• Regions, regulation and institutions: a preface Trevor Barnes and Meric Gertler 1. Industrial geography, institutional economics and innis Trevor Barnes Part I Regions 2. The resurgence of regional economics, ten years later Michael Storper, University of California, USA 3. The co-operative advantage of regions Philip Cooke, University of Wales, Cardiff 4. Reversing attrition? The auto cluster in Baden-Wurttemberg Kevin Morgan, University of Wales, Cardiff 5. Sticky places in slippery space: a typology of industrial districts Ann Markusen, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA (as of July 1 1999) Part II Regulation 6. Harnessing the region: changing perspectives on innovation policy in Ontario David Wolfe, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada 7. Rules as resources: how market governance regimes influence firm networks Susan Christopherson, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA 8. Continentalism in an era of globalisation: a perspective from Canada's resource periphery Roger Hayter, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada and John Holmes, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada Part III Institutions 9. The Firm in the region and the region in the firm Erica Schoenberger, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA 10. The production of industrial processes: regions, nation states and the foundations of regulation Meric Gertler 11. Does nationality still matter? The new competition and the foreign ownership question revisited John Britton, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada 12. Capital and creative destruction: venture capital and regional growth in US industrialization Richard Florida, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA and Mark Samber, Carnegie Mellon university, Pittsburgh, USA 13. Institutional issues for the European regions: from markets and plans to socioeconomics and the powers of association Ash Amin, University of Durham, UK and Nigel Thrift, University of Bristol, UK