Regions and Cities
About the Book Series
In today’s globalised, knowledge-driven and networked world, regions and cities have assumed heightened significance as the interconnected nodes of economic, social and cultural production, and as sites of new modes of economic governance and policy experimentation. This book series brings together incisive and critically engaged international and interdisciplinary research on this resurgence of regions and cities, and should be of interest to geographers, economists, sociologists, political scientists and cultural scholars, as well as to policy-makers involved in regional and urban development.
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Stephen J Ramos – [email protected] – Series Editor-in-Chief, or
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The Regions and Cities book series welcomes Open Access projects. Please contact Kristina Abbotts or visit https://www.routledge.com/info/open_access for more details.
About the Regional Studies Association (RSA)
The RSA is the global community for regional and urban research, development and policy. As a learned society for regional studies, it provides an authoritative voice for researchers, students and practitioners from disciplines including economics, geography, political science, planning, urban sociology, transport planning and other fields. The RSA delivers its charitable aims through knowledge exchange and policy engagement activities, its portfolio of journals and publications, its programme of conferences and events and its worldwide territorial and research networks. The RSA also runs a grant funding programme and recognises good practice in regional studies through its awards. It is an inclusive, diverse and environmental responsible organisation. For more information go to www.regionalstudies.org
Dissemination Support for Authors
The RSA increases the dissemination of research and supports authors publishing in this book series through the promotion of new books, organisation of online book launches in cooperation with the author(s) and by offering a platform for the publication of book reviews.
30% DISCOUNT AVAILABLE
Did you know that as a Regional Studies Association member you’re entitled to a 30% discount on all Routledge books? To order, simply email James Hill ([email protected]), or phone on +44 (0) 7831 120 008 and declare your RSA membership.
Community-based Entrepreneurship and Rural Development: Creating Favourable Conditions for Small Businesses in Central Europe
1st Edition
By Matthias Fink, Stephan Loidl, Richard Lang
July 17, 2014
How can municipalities in Central Europe create favourable conditions for local business? What and how can municipalities learn from each other? How can each individual in the local area contribute? And what requirements have to be met before know-how can successfully be transferred on a communal ...
Complex Adaptive Innovation Systems: Relatedness and Transversality in the Evolving Region
1st Edition
By Philip Cooke
July 17, 2014
Leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 and onwards, the shortcomings of traditional models of regional economic and environmental development had become increasingly evident. Rooted in the idea that ‘policy’ is an encumbrance to free markets, the stress on supply-side smoothing measures such as...
Creating Knowledge Locations in Cities: Innovation and Integration Challenges
1st Edition
By Willem van Winden, Luis Carvalho, Erwin van Tuijl, Jeroen van Haaren, Leo van den Berg
July 17, 2014
Based on a clear and comprehensive literature review, this book contains an analysis of five knowledge locations in Europe and one in South Korea. The case studies in the book cover several European countries (Ireland, Finland, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands). The cases are well grounded in the ...
Creative Industries and Innovation in Europe: Concepts, Measures and Comparative Case Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Luciana Lazzeretti
July 17, 2014
In recent years, the study of creativity has shifted from analysis of culture as an end in itself to one of economic enhancement, and its capability to generate wealth and promote economic development. Increasingly, European cities and regions are using the arts to fuel wellbeing and reinvigorate ...
Innovation Governance in an Open Economy: Shaping Regional Nodes in a Globalized World
1st Edition
Edited
By Annika Rickne, Staffan Laestadius, Henry Etzkowitz
July 17, 2014
In an increasingly globalised world, paradoxically regional innovation clusters have moved to the forefront of attention as a strategy for economic and social development. Transcending international success cases, like Silicon Valley and Route 128, as sources of lessons, successful high tech ...
Leadership and Change in Sustainable Regional Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Markku Sotarauta, Ina Horlings, Joyce Liddle
July 17, 2014
This book shows, first of all, that leadership plays a crucial role in reinventing regions and branching out from an old path to something new in order to create more balanced and sustainable regional development. Second, it maintains that leadership is not a solo but a multi-agent and -level ...
Networking Regionalised Innovative Labour Markets
1st Edition
Edited
By Ulrich Hilpert, Helen Lawton Smith
July 17, 2014
A map which shows where innovation is clustered worldwide is also a map of the location of the highly skilled and talented labour. New technologies, their creative applications or synergy across different areas of scientific research or technology development always create opportunities for the ...
Promoting Silicon Valleys in Latin America: Lessons from Costa Rica
1st Edition
By Luciano Ciravegna
July 17, 2014
The spectacular economic performance of China, East Asia and India during the last ten years has ignited some profound changes in the world economy. The share of global demand, investments, trade and production of the traditional industrialized powers, the US, Europe and Japan, has gradually yet ...
Re-framing Regional Development: Evolution, Innovation and Transition
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Cooke
July 17, 2014
Turbulence characterises the current global scene. This book uses complementary theoretical approaches to understand and help prescribe policies to ‘re-frame’ the regional development problem in turbulent times. These approaches are: evolutionary complexity; evolutionary economic geography; ...
Regional Development Agencies: The Next Generation?: Networking, Knowledge and Regional Policies
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicola Bellini, Mike Danson, Henrik Halkier
July 17, 2014
Across Europe, regional development agencies (RDAs) have become a central feature of regional policy, both as innovative policy-makers and as the implementers of programmes and initiatives originating from the national or European level. By drawing on a combination of conceptual reflection, surveys...
Regional Development in Northern Europe: Peripherality, Marginality and Border Issues
1st Edition
Edited
By Mike Danson, Peter de Souza
July 17, 2014
This book draws on work from across northern Europe and is parallel and complementary to the network itself. By establishing an intellectual and practically orientated framework and platform, and by bringing together contributions defining the state-of-the-art and potential development paths in the...
Working Regions: Reconnecting Innovation and Production in the Knowledge Economy
1st Edition
By Jennifer Clark
May 16, 2014
Working Regions focuses on policy aimed at building sustainable and resilient regional economies in the wake of the global recession. Using examples of four ‘working regions’ — regions where research and design functions and manufacturing still coexist in the same cities — the book argues for a new...