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Innovation varies fundamentally between countries ¿ and public policies can be determined according to different societies¿ needs (e.g. energy technology, environmental technologies). This comparison between countries and continents featuring a range of world experts helps develop a fuller picture of innovations and their social basis.
In recent years, smart specialisation has been a key building block of regional economic and development policy across the European Union. Governing Smart Specialisation contributes to the emerging debate about the role of the `entrepreneurial discovery process¿ (EDP), which is at the heart of smart specialisation strategies for regional economic transformation. Particular focus in placed on what methods, procedures and institutional conditions are necessary in order to generate information that helps buttress policy decisions.
This book highlights some recent methodological advances for the analysis of localized innovation dynamics and it shows their implications for the renewal of public policies rationale and evaluation at the regional level.
The ideas contained in the smart specialisation agenda have until now been primarily conceptual in nature. The Empirical and Institutional Dimensions of Smart Specialisation draws together some of the leading regional economists and scientists in Europe to analyse how smart specialisation is working in practice. This book investigates different dimensions of the agenda as it is developing across parts of Europe from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives.
How have international skilled migratory flows been formed, sustained, and transformed over multiple spaces and scales? How have these processes affected cities and regions? And how have multiple stakeholders responded to these processes? The contributors to this book bring together perspectives from economic, social, urban, and population geography in order to analyse these questions from a myriad of angles. Empirical case studies of regions illuminate the multi-scaled processes of international skilled migration.
This book provides a definition of social exclusion and looks at both the processes which cause it and the dimensions of the problem throughout Europe.
This book conveys how forces of structural change shape the urban landscape. One important subject covered, in addition to the spatial and economic forces that shape our regions, cities, and neighbourhoods, is the social, cultural, ecological, and psychological aspects which are also critically involved. Additionally, the urban transformation occurring throughout cities is thoroughly discussed. Written by today¿s leading experts in urban studies, this book discusses subjects from different theoretical standpoints, as well as various methodological approaches and perspectives; this is alongside the challenges and new solutions for cities and regions in an interconnected world of global economies.
This contributors provide a range of perspectives on the increasingly central issues of state reform, European integration and British regionalism in the 1990s.
This book brings together a rich selection of up-to-date practical experience of EU regional policy from across Europe.
This book looks at the economy of Scotland from every angle ¿ from the oil and gas sector to the labour market and education; from the country¿s financial sector to inequality and poverty, bringing together a team of experts in their fields to provide an assessment of the current state of the nation.
Data and the City looks at the creation of real-time cities and data-driven urbanism and considers the relationships at play. By taking an ontological, political, practical and technical approach to urban data, the authors analyse the ways in which data are produced and framed within socio-technical systems.
This book, representing some of the worlds leading authors on 'regions in geography', drives the debate and empirical research on the geography of regions forward and examine the evolution of the conceptualizations and practical uses of the idea of 'region'. This is the first book approaching these in this manner. This book was based on a special issue of Regional Studies.
This book contains a collection of cutting-edge empirical research on the regional level determinants of new business formation and its effect on regional welfare and growth. This book was published as a special issue of Regional Studies.
This book is the first comparative analysis and assessment of metropolitan areas and their strategic planning for almost two decades.
This book, divided into five parts, examines in detail the changes and the challenge for policy makers.
This textbook provides a conceptual, theoretical and empirical analysis of regional development strategies within a European context.
The book discusses the opportunities and challenges for regional development arising from the extraordinary challenges of stalled globalization and political uncertainty now confronting the world. It was originally published as a special issue of Regional Studies.
Discussions of the illicit and the illegal have tended to be somewhat restricted in their disciplinary range and have been largely confined to the literatures of anthropology, criminology, policing and, to an extent, political science. This book is a multidisciplinary volume that aims to open up these debates.
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