Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Local Processes and Global Patterns

AvCharlie Karlsson,Börje Johansson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

Perhaps the most exceptional aspect of the current era of globalisation is that entrepreneurship has become the engine for local processes of economic, social and cultural development throughout the world. This important new book brings together a number of leading scholars in the field to explore the development aspects of globalisation, in particular those that foster the evolution of entrepreneurs in local-global processes.The expert contributions consider local processes such as entrepreneurship, new firm formation, creativity, media clustering, migration, and many more. They examine how the footprints of these processes reveal themselves in the contemporary global context, characterized by increasing economic interdependence as evidenced by the expanding trade in goods and services, and the growth in capital, knowledge and technology flows. The authors highlight the fact that global patterns of change are the result of innumerable local processes driven by economic, political and social entrepreneurs in localities, regions and nations around the world. With a variety of geographic perspectives, this book will appeal to researchers, students and policymakers in a range of fields including urban and regional economics, economic geography, international trade, and entrepreneurship and innovation policy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-09-30
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Horizons in Regional Science series
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781847209320

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Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Professor Emeritus of the Economics of Technological Change, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University and Professor Emeritus of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology, the late Börje Johansson, formerly Professor of Economics, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Jönköping and Director, CESIS (Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies), Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden and the late Roger R. Stough, formerly School of Policy, Government and International Affairs, George Mason University, US

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‘“Think Global, Act Local” has become the policy mantra for innovation, growth and competitiveness in the global economy. In this important and insightful book, Karlsson, Johansson and Stough assemble an all star team of international scholars to explicitly draw out the key role that entrepreneurship plays for local economic performance. The interdisciplinary approach contained in this book yields a pathbreaking set of insights for regional policy that will be of great value to both scholars and policy makers.’

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:Preface1. IntroductionCharlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson and Roger R. Stough2. Globalization and the Emergence of the Entrepreneurial SocietyDavid B. Audretsch3. New Firm Formation and Economic Development in a Globalizing EconomySierdjan Koster and Charlie Karlsson4. Entrepreneurship and Local Growth: A Comparison of the US and SwedenBenny Borgman and Pontus Braunerhjelm5. Gibrat’s Law Reconsidered: A Creativity PerspectiveZoltan J. Acs and Catherine Armington6. International Linkages and Entrepreneurship in Media Clusters: Evidence from the UKGary A.S. Cook and Naresh R. Pandit7. Household Migration and Attractiveness in Consumer Service SupplyCharlotta Mellander and Johanna Palmberg8. Knowledge Intensive Business Services as Gazelles: Implications of Size on InnovationJohanna Nählinder9. The Community Entrepreneur as a Facilitator of Local Economic DevelopmentLars Rønning, Elisabet Ljunggren and Johan Wiklund10. Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Danish Regional PolicyAndreas P. Cornett11. Modeling Just-in-Time Manufacturing in a Vertically Integrated IndustryHo Yeon Kim12. The Innovation and Productivity Effect of Foreign Takeover of National AssetsBörje Johansson, Hans Lööf and Bernd Ebersberger13. Creative Industries and Regional Economic Development – The Example of Public Supported Regional Film Centres in SwedenPer Assmo14. Local Patterns of Growth in a Global Perspective: A Territorial Scenario of an Enlarged EuropeRoberta CapelloIndex