|  | McCann, Philip / Oxley, Les
Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth
Surveys of Recent Research in Economics
 1. Edition December 2012
25.90 Euro
2012. 208 Pages, Softcover
ISBN 978-1-118-42728-6 - John Wiley & Sons
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This book provides a timely, accessible review of our understanding of the complex links between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth. Expert contributions provide a thorough roadmap of the developments in research at the interface of these themes. It is a timely and accessible review of our understanding of the complex links between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth as well as a highly comprehensive roadmap of the range of issues addressed by research in these areas. Containing contributions from leading experts in the field, it discusses the most profitable ways forward for enhancing our understanding of arising issues from a variety of theoretical, empirical and institutional angles.
From the contents
Notes on Contributors vii
1. Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth 1
Philip McCann and Les Oxley
2. Theories of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and the Business Cycle 5
Simon C. Parker
3. The Transatlantic Productivity Gap: A Survey of the Main Causes 25
Raquel Ortega-Argilés
4. A Survey of the Innovation Surveys 53
Shangqin Hong, Les Oxley and Philip McCann
5. Knowledge Dynamics, Structural Change and the Geography of Business Services 79
Tommaso Ciarli, Valentina Meliciani and Maria Savona
6. Multilevel Approaches and the Firm-Agglomeration Ambiguity in Economic Growth Studies 105
Frank G. van Oort, Martijn J. Burger, Joris Knoben and Otto Raspe
7. A Relational Approach to the Geography of Innovation: A Typology of Regions 131
Rosina Moreno and Ernest Miguélez
8. An 'Integrated' Framework for the Comparative Analysis of the Territorial Innovation Dynamics of Developed and Emerging Countries 159
Riccardo Crescenzi and Andrés Rodr'yguez-Pose
9. Regional Innovation Systems within a Transitional Context: Evolutionary Comparison of the Electronics Industry in Shenzhen and Dongguan Since the Opening of China 177
Wenying Fu, Javier Revilla Diez and Daniel Schiller
Index 197
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