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Regions and Cities

Series Editor: Gillian Bristow, Maryann Feldman, Gernot Grabher, Ron Martin, Martin Perry

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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New and Published Books

11-20 of 69 results in Regions and Cities

  1. Leadership and Change in Sustainable Regional Development

    Edited by Markku Sotarauta, Lummina Horlings, Joyce Liddle

    Series: Regions and Cities

    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...

    Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge

  2. Community-based Entrepreneurship and Rural Development

    Creating Favourable Conditions for Small Businesses in Central Europe

    By Matthias Fink, Stephan Loidl, Richard Lang

    Series: Regions and Cities

    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...

    Published July 19th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Regional Development Agencies: The Next Generation?

    Networking, Knowledge and Regional Policies

    Edited by Nicola Bellini, Mike Danson, Henrik Halkier

    Series: Regions and Cities

    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...

    Published July 18th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Creative Industries and Innovation in Europe

    Concepts, Measures and Comparative Case Studies

    Edited by Luciana Lazzeretti

    Series: Regions and Cities

    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...

    Published July 17th 2012 by Routledge

  5. The Rise of the English Regions?

    Edited by Irene Hardill, Paul Benneworth, Mark Baker, Leslie Budd

    Series: Regions and Cities

    This book analyzes devolution as it affects the English Regions, working from the perspective of uneven development, and drawing on the rich tradition of regional geography. Currently, London is the power centre ruling over the other English regions. The first part of the book looks at how this...

    Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge

  6. Innovation Governance in an Open Economy

    Shaping Regional Nodes in a Globalized World

    Edited by Annika Rickne, Staffan Laestadius, Henry Etzkowitz

    Series: Regions and Cities

    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...

    Published April 23rd 2012 by Routledge

  7. Controversies in Local Economic Development

    Stories, strategies, solutions

    By Martin Perry

    Series: Regions and Cities

    Efforts to promote the economic development of individual localities engage the attention of academics, students and professionals. Many such analysts argue that competitive advantage can be fostered within local economies, complimenting the advent of a more globalised economy. Intensified efforts...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge

  8. Business Networks in Clusters and Industrial Districts

    The Governance of the Global Value Chain

    Edited by Fiorenza Belussi, Alessia Sammarra

    Series: Regions and Cities

    During the 1980s the Marshallian concept of industrial district (ID) became widely popular due to the resurgence of interest in the reasons that make the agglomeration of specialised industries a territorial phenomenon worth being analysed. The analysis of clusters and IDs has often been limited,...

    Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge

  9. Complex Adaptive Innovation Systems

    Relatedness and Transversality in the Evolving Region

    By Philip Cooke

    Series: Regions and Cities

    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...

    Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge

  10. Creative Regions

    Technology, Culture and Knowledge Entrepreneurship

    Edited by Philip Cooke, Dafna Schwartz

    Series: Regions and Cities

    This unique book focuses on regional creativity, analysing the different factors that can affect creativity and innovation process within regions in the knowledge economy. Approaching creativity from technological, organizational and regional viewpoints, it attempts to break down the influence of...

    Published March 13th 2012 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. The Impacts of Automotive Plant Closure: A Tale of Two Cities
    Edited by Andrew Beer, Holli Evans
    To Be Published May 31st 2013
  2. 'Whither regional studies?'
    Edited by Andy Pike
    To Be Published May 31st 2013
  3. The Economic Geography of the IT Industry in the Asia Pacific Region
    Edited by Philip Cooke, Glen Searle, Kevin O'Connor
    To Be Published June 11th 2013
  4. Entrepreneurial Knowledge, Technology and the Transformation of Regions
    Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson, Roger Stough
    To Be Published June 13th 2013
  5. Beyond Territory: Dynamic Geographies of Knowledge Creation, Diffusion and Innovation
    Edited by Harald Bathelt, Maryann Feldman, Dieter F. Kogler
    To Be Published July 4th 2013
  6. Knowledge Economy and the City: Spaces of knowledge
    By Ali Madanipour
    To Be Published July 4th 2013
  7. Manufacturing in the New Urban Economy
    By Willem van Winden, Leo van den Berg, Luis Carvalho, Erwin van Tuijl
    To Be Published July 4th 2013
  8. Migration in the 21st Century: Rights, Outcomes, and Policy
    Edited by Thomas N. Maloney, Kim Korinek
    To Be Published July 4th 2013
  9. Territorial Development, Cohesion and Spatial Planning: Knowledge and policy development in an enlarged EU
    Edited by Neil Adams, Giancarlo Cotella, Richard Nunes
    To Be Published July 4th 2013
  10. The Recession and Beyond: Local and Regional Responses to the Downturn
    Edited by David Bailey, Caroline Chapain
    To Be Published July 4th 2013

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