Working Regions

Jennifer (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Clark

• Hardcover | Regions and Cities
• Working Regions focuses on policy aimed at building sustainable and resilient regional economies in the wake of the global recession. Using examples o... Lees meer

Universities and Regional Engagement

• Hardcover | Engels | Regions and Cities
• The study of universities' role in regional engagement has traditionally been focusing on exceptional cases. This book presents a reconceptualization ... Lees meer

Regional Development Strategies

• Paperback | Engels | Regions and Cities | nr. 11
• Regional development strategies have become the focus of attention in many countries in the 1990s. This textbook provides a conceptual, theoretical an... Lees meer

The Randstad

• Hardcover | Engels | Regions and Cities
• The Randstad metropolitan region encompassing Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht in the western Netherlands is regarded worldwide as a model ... Lees meer

Diversities of Innovation

• Paperback | Engels | Regions and Cities
• Innovation is often understood exclusively in terms of the economy, but it is definitely a result of human labour and ingenuity, and of the relationsh... Lees meer

Controversies in Local Economic Development

Martin Perry

• Paperback | Engels | Regions and Cities
• Efforts to promote the economic development of individual localities engage the attention of academics, students and professionals. Many such analysts... Lees meer

Networking Regionalised Innovative Labour Markets

• Hardcover | Engels | Regions and Cities | nr. 61
• 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, t... Lees meer

Code and the City

• Paperback | Engels | Regions and Cities
• Software has become essential to the functioning of cities. It is deeply embedded into the systems and infrastructure of the built environment and is ... Lees meer

The Value of Arts and Culture for Regional Development

• Hardcover | Engels | Regions and Cities | nr. 64
• In this new volume, 28 Scandinavian researchers and others who are active in arts and culture seek to answer the questions: What has been the effect o... Lees meer

Union Retreat and the Regions

Ron Martin, Peter Sunley, Jane Wills

• Paperback | Engels | Regions and Cities | nr. 10
• Since the beginning of the 1980s, British trade unions have experienced a dramatic retreat, marked by rapidly falling membership and declining industr... Lees meer

Social and Economic Development in Central and Eastern Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Regions and Cities
• The integration of post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe into the EU is one of the success stories of European development. The region has seen si... Lees meer

The Political Economy of Capital Cities

Heike Mayer, Fritz Sager, David Kaufmann

• Paperback | Engels | Regions and Cities
• Capital cities that are not the dominant economic centers of their nations - so-called 'secondary capital cities' (SCCs) - tend to be overlooked in th... Lees meer

Beyond Territory

• Paperback | Engels | Regions and Cities
• The main purpose of the book is to discuss new trends in the dynamic geography of innovation and argue that in an era of increasing globalization, two... Lees meer

Restructuring Industry and Territory

• Hardcover | Engels | Regions and Cities
• Examining the current trends in regional economic development in Europe, Restructuring Industry and Territory explores ways in which the restructuring... Lees meer

Innovation, Regional Development and the Life Sciences

Kean Birch

• Paperback | Engels | Regions and Cities
• The life sciences is an industrial sector that covers the development of biological products and the use of biological processes in the production of ... Lees meer

Regional Development in the 1990s

• Hardcover | Engels | Regions and Cities
• This book documents the changing nature and challenge of regional development in Britain and Ireland in the final decade of this century. In the first... Lees meer

Entrepreneurial Knowledge, Technology and the Transformation of Regions

• Paperback | Engels | Regions and Cities
• In recent years, policy makers have given much credence to the role of entrepreneurship in the transformation of regions. As a result, a new set of po... Lees meer

China and Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Regions and Cities
• What are the likely long-term implications of this shift to Asia for the cities and regions of Europe? To just 'wait and see' cannot be the response, ... Lees meer

Rethinking International Skilled Migration

• Hardcover | Engels | Regions and Cities
• In today's global knowledge economy, competition for the best and brightest workers has intensified. Highly skilled workers are an asset to companies,... Lees meer

Community-based Entrepreneurship and Rural Development

Matthias Fink, Stephan Loidl, Richard Lang

• Paperback | Engels | 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 c... Lees meer

Place-Based Economic Development and the New EU Cohesion Policy

• Hardcover | Engels | Regions and Cities
• The new EU Cohesion Policy is one of the largest integrated development policies in the Western world, and one of the largest of such programmes anywh... Lees meer

The Creative Class Goes Global

• Paperback | Engels | Regions and Cities
• The whole landscape of research in urban studies was revolutionized by the publication of Richard Florida's The Rise of the Creative Class in 2002, an... Lees meer

Community Economic Development

• Paperback | Engels | Regions and Cities | nr. 22
• This important book examines the ways in which community economic development can contribute to local and regional regeneration. It presents a unique ... Lees meer

Regional Policy in Europe

S S Artobolevskiy

• Paperback | Engels | Regions and Cities | nr. 14
• Based on the author's extensive research in the field, this book analyzes regional policy for the whole of Europe. Comparing East and West, it offers ... Lees meer