Regional Economics
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Resilience, Crisis and Innovation Dynamics
Edited by Tüzin Baycan, Hugo Pinto
Resilience has emerged as a recurrent notion to explain how territorial socio-economic systems adapt successfully (or not) to negative events. In this book, the authors use resilience as a bridging notion to connect different types of th...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Geography, Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Edited by Urban Gråsjö, Charlie Karlsson, Iréne Bernhard
Developed countries must be incredibly innovative to secure incomes and welfare so that they may successfully compete against international rivals. This book focuses on two specific but interrelated aspects of innovation by incumbent fir...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Evaluation of Complex Infrastructure Projects
Lasse Gerrits, Stefan Verweij
Infrastructure projects are notoriously hard to manage so it is important that society learns from the successes and mistakes made over time. However, most evaluation methods run into a conundrum: either they cover a large number of proj...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Creative Industries and Entrepreneurship
Edited by Luciana Lazzeretti, Marilena Vecco
This book investigates the evolving paradigm of creative industries and creative entrepreneurship, and their related economy over time. It explores different stages of the paradigm diffusion in ‘first generation countries’ such as the US...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Transportation, Knowledge and Space in Urban and Regional Economics
Edited by Kakuya Matsushima, William P. Anderson
This collection of 16 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 authors provide res...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Globalization, International Spillovers and Sectoral Changes
Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Andreas P. Cornett, Tina Wallin
As a consequence of globalization, news, ideas and knowledge are moving quickly across national borders and generating international spillovers. So too, however, are economic and financial crises. Combining a variety of methods, concepts...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Time, Space and Capital
Åke E. Andersson, David Emanuel Andersson
In this challenging book, the authors demonstrate that economists tend to misunderstand capital. Frank Knight was an exception, as he argued that because all resources are more or less durable and have uncertain future uses they can cons...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Geographies of Growth
Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Martin Andersson, Lina Bjerke
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 ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Introduction to Regional Economic Development
Mustafa Dinc
This is a relatively simple and easy to read introduction of major regional and local economic development theories, their theoretical evolution and other relevant topics such as governance, institutions and local leadership within the g...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Graduate Migration and Regional Development
Edited by Jonathan Corcoran, Alessandra Faggian
This book aims to integrate and augment current state-of-the-art knowledge on graduate migration and its role in local economic development. Comprising the key scholars working in the field, it draws together an international series of c...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Knowledge Borders
Kathrine E. Richardson
Key sections 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. Ho...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Life Cycle of Clusters
Edited by Dirk Fornahl, Robert Hassink
One-size-fits-all cluster policies have been rightly criticized in the literature. One promising approach is to focus cluster policies on the specific needs of firms depending on the stage of development (emergence, growth, sustainment o...eBook:Find out more$40.00