Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth

Philip McCann 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 McCann 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.

• Notes on Contributors vii1. Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth 1Philip McCann and Les Oxley2. Theories of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and the Business Cycle 5Simon C. Parker3. The Transatlantic Productivity Gap: A Survey of the Main Causes 25Raquel Ortega-Argilés4. A Survey of the Innovation Surveys 53Shangqin Hong, Les Oxley and Philip McCann5. Knowledge Dynamics, Structural Change and the Geography of Business Services 79Tommaso Ciarli, Valentina Meliciani and Maria Savona6. Multilevel Approaches and the Firm-Agglomeration Ambiguity in Economic Growth Studies 105Frank G. van Oort, Martijn J. Burger, Joris Knoben and Otto Raspe7. A Relational Approach to the Geography of Innovation: A Typology of Regions 131Rosina Moreno and Ernest Miguélez8. An ‘Integrated’ Framework for the Comparative Analysis of the Territorial Innovation Dynamics of Developed and Emerging Countries 159Riccardo Crescenzi and Andrés Rodr’yguez-Pose9. Regional Innovation Systems within a Transitional Context: Evolutionary Comparison of the Electronics Industry in Shenzhen and Dongguan Since the Opening of China 177Wenying Fu, Javier Revilla Diez and Daniel SchillerIndex 197