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Media Clusters
Spatial Agglomeration and Content Capabilities
Av Charlie Karlsson, Robert G. Picard
Inbunden, 2011
2650 kr
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This impressive new volume uniquely focuses on the phenomenon of media clusters and is designed to inform policy makers, scholars, and media practitioners about the underlying challenges of media firm agglomerations, their potential, and their effects. Including an array of distinguished …
Creative Knowledge Cities
Myths, Visions and Realities
Av Marina van Geenhuizen, Peter Nijkamp
Inbunden, 2012
2832 kr
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This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding potentially negative impacts of knowledge based city policies. The authors provide a critical reflection …
Migration Impact Assessment
New Horizons
Av Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2728 kr
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During the last few decades the world has experienced an unprecedented level of cross-border migration. While this has generated significant socio-economic gains for host countries, as well as sometimes for the countries of origin, the costs and benefits involved are unevenly distributed. …
Spatial Scenarios in a Global Perspective
Europe and the Latin Arc Countries
Av Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello
Inbunden, 2011
1833 kr
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This up-to-date and insightful book presents post-crisis scenarios for European regions with new methodologies and tools to support quantitative assessment and foresight. The aim is to develop regional forecasting methodologies and tools, appropriate to the regional-local scale but consistent with …
Innovation, Global Change and Territorial Resilience
Av Philip Cooke, Mario Davide Parrilli m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2952 kr
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The critical message of this book is that in the current context of global change, local and national territories have to upgrade their resilience in terms of improving both their competitiveness and capability to innovate. Localized creativity, small high-tech entrepreneurship, related innovation …
Geography of Academic Entrepreneurship
Spin-offs, Firm Growth and Regional Impact
Inbunden, 2023
1675 kr
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Building on a variety of contrasting perspectives, this book focuses on the connection between university spin-offs and regional economic development. It aptly captures the diverse range of concepts relating to the main participants in the process of university spin-offs, reflecting on their roles …
Societies in Motion
Innovation, Migration and Regional Transformation
Av Amnon Frenkel, Peter Nijkamp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2418 kr
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In today's globalized world, modern society is characterized by rapid transitions in space that are in part the result of technological developments of previous decades. This unique book deals with the complex issues raised by these transformations, focusing particularly on the impacts on regional …
Governance of Innovation Spaces
How Civic Capital and Collaborative Governance Shape Urban and Regional Development
Inbunden, 2026
1902 kr
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The Governance of Innovation Spaces explores why some cities and regions thrive while others get left behind in today’s changing global economy. In the face of rapid digital transformation and climate change, David A. Wolfe argues that the capacity of cities and regions to manage this transition …
Sustainable Regional Restructuring
Insights from Economic Geography and Regional Innovation Studies
Av James Karlsen, Jan O. Rypestøl m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1729 kr
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This incisive book presents conceptual and empirical insights to illustrate how regions can adopt sustainable industry practices in response to climate change. Contributing authors assess regional restructuring from multiple angles, examining case studies and empirical evidence.Taking an …
Developing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Place, Processes, People
Av Laura I.H Bennett, Don J. Webber m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1692 kr
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This insightful book examines the factors shaping the success of entrepreneurial ecosystems. While policymakers and academics are attracted to the potential of entrepreneurship for fostering growth and regional development, the mechanisms and processes that drive thriving ecosystems remain …
Entrepreneurship, Social Capital and Governance
Directions for the Sustainable Development and Competitiveness of Regions
Av Charlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2695 kr
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This book highlights the role of entrepreneurship, social capital and governance for regional economic development. In recent decades, many researchers have claimed that entrepreneurship is the most critical factor in sustaining regional economic growth. However, most entrepreneurship research is …
Regional Development and Proximity Relations
Av André Torre, Frédéric Wallet
Inbunden, 2014
2411 kr
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The notion of proximity is increasing in popularity in economic and geographic literature, and is now commonly used by scholars in regional science and spatial economics. Few academic works, however, have explored the link between regional development and proximity relations. This comprehensive …
Geography of the Internet
Cities, Regions and Internet Infrastructure in Europe
Inbunden, 2013
1827 kr
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This timely book presents a wide range of quantitative methods, including complex network analysis and econometric modelling, to illustrate how the Internet both follows, and at the same time challenges, more traditional geographies.Emmanouil Tranos explores the spatiality of the Internet, its …
Social Capital and Rural Development in the Knowledge Society
Av Hans Westlund, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Inbunden, 2013
2325 kr
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Social capital is often considered a key factor for local development. This book analyzes the role of social capital for rural areas' survival and development in the current age of metropolitan growth - an era in which urban is the norm and where rural areas must adapt to this new situation and …
Regional Competitiveness and Smart Specialization in Europe
Place-based Development in International Economic Networks
Av Mark Thissen, Frank van Oort m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1879 kr
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Regions economically differ from each other - they compete in different products and geographical spaces, exhibit different strengths and weaknesses, and provide different possibilities for growth and development. What fosters growth in one region may hamper it in another. This highly original book …
Rise of the City
Spatial Dynamics in the Urban Century
Av Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2411 kr
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'Cities have been studied and written on from a whole host of unique viewpoints. The contributors of this volume shed light on the city from several perspectives that together constitute the modern singularity of these spaces on Earth. Based on international and cutting-edge research, the content …
Cities and Sustainable Technology Transitions
Leadership, Innovation and Adoption
Av Marina van Geenhuizen, J. Adam Holbrook m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2553 kr
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Cities are undoubted key players in technology creation and adoption for sustainable transitions. This book addresses both the active and passive roles of cities in technology innovation, commercialisation, mass-production and adoption. In particular, it examines elements of three socio-technical …
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy
Knowledge, Technology and Internationalization
Av Charlie Karlsson, Urban Gråsjö m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2394 kr
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We have, in recent decades, been able to witness a veritable revolution in the world economy, known as 'globalization'. Generally, the term is connected to the rapid increase of the free movement of goods, capital, people, ideas, information and knowledge around the globe. This book contributes to …
Regional and Urban Policy of the European Union
Cohesion, Results-Orientation and Smart Specialisation
Inbunden, 2015
1999 kr
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The regional and urban development policy of the European Union, or more precisely, EU Cohesion Policy, is undergoing change. This development is driven by the enormous transformations in European regions and by shifts in thinking and analysis. The issues raised by the changes to regional and urban …
Regional and Urban Policy of the European Union
Cohesion, Results-Orientation and Smart Specialisation
Häftad, 2016
532 kr
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The regional and urban development policy of the European Union, or more precisely, EU Cohesion Policy, is undergoing change. This development is driven by the enormous transformations in European regions and by shifts in thinking and analysis. The issues raised by the changes to regional and urban …
Settlements at the Edge
Remote Human Settlements in Developed Nations
Av Andrew Taylor, Dean B. Carson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2823 kr
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Settlements at the Edge examines the evolution, characteristics, functions and shifting economic basis of settlements in sparsely populated areas of developed nations. With a focus on demographic change, the book features theoretical and applied cases, which explore the interface between …
Graduate Migration and Regional Development
An International Perspective
Av Jonathan Corcoran, Alessandra Faggian
Inbunden, 2017
1999 kr
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This book aims to integrate and augment current state-of-the-art knowledge on graduate migration and its role in local economic development. Offering an international perspective, it is the first focused book of its kind on graduate migration, a recognised and critical component of the global pool …
Sustainable Innovation and Regional Development
Rethinking Innovative Milieus
Av Leïla Kebir, Olivier Crevoisier m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1999 kr
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This book questions the way contemporary innovation processes develop and become embedded in territories. It analyses recent developments in territorial systems of production, networks of innovation and innovative milieus, with regard to the issue of sustainable development. Drawing on 12 case …
Geographies of Growth
Innovations, Networks and Collaborations
Av Charlie Karlsson, Martin Andersson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2720 kr
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Today we can observe an increasing spatial divide as some large urban regions and many more medium-sized and small regions face growing problems such as decreasing labour demand, increasing unemployment and an ageing population. In view of these trends, this book offers a better understanding of …
Economic Crisis and the Resilience of Regions
A European Study
Av Gillian Bristow, Adrian Healy
Inbunden, 2018
1621 kr
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This insightful book provides an astute analysis of how resilient multiple regional economies across Europe were to the global economic crisis of 2008-9. Assessing the impact and geography of the crisis, this book offers a cross-comparative study of how regional economies were affected, as well as …
High Speed Rail and China’s New Economic Geography
Impact Assessment from the Regional Science Perspective
Av Zhenhua Chen, Kingsley E. Haynes
Inbunden, 2019
2136 kr
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High Speed Rail and China's New Economic Geography presents an analytical approach to assessing the socioeconomic impact of high speed rail in China, with an emphasis on capturing the spatial spillover effects of rail infrastructure development on China's economic geography in terms of land use, …
Transportation, Knowledge and Space in Urban and Regional Economics
Av Kakuya Matsushima, William P. Anderson
Inbunden, 2018
2349 kr
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This collection of original research chapters by international scholars addresses the complementary roles of transportation and knowledge and their spatial manifestations in modern urban and regional economies. The featured studies employ the most current and sophisticated technologies, while the …
Global City Makers
Economic Actors and Practices in the World City Network
Av Michael Hoyler, Christof Parnreiter m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1810 kr
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'This is a truly refreshing take on the phenomenon of global cities. For far too long we've been seduced by the flows and networks that reproduce global cities without considering the actors, individuals, organisations, institutions, that make and shape the global-local dynamics of such spaces in …
Knowledge Borders
Temporary Labor Mobility and the Canada–US Border Region
Inbunden, 2017
1913 kr
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Key elements of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) deal with temporary labor mobility. Ideally, NAFTA status provisions should make the temporary movement of professionals easier across the border of all NAFTA countries. However, in the case of emerging sectors such as high technology …
Innovation in Developing and Transition Countries
Av Alexandra Tsvetkova, Jana Schmutzler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1976 kr
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This edited volume offers a multidisciplinary perspective on innovation challenges and innovative practices in the context of developing and transition countries. The contributions mostly embrace a national innovation system approach in an attempt to understand innovation processes and their …
