Introduction. The rise of regions: innovation, agglomeration and regional competition / Borje Johansson, Charlie Karlsson and Roger R. Stough -- 1. Regional interaction and economic diversity: exploring the role of geographically overlapping markets for a municipality's diversity in retail and durables / Martin Andersson and Johan Klaesson -- 2. Regions in competition and cooperation: opportunities for cross-border collaboration in support of Irish micro-enterprises / Jim Bell, Denise Crossan, Patrick Ibbotson and Fred Scharf -- 3. Ownership, succession and entrepreneurship in an ageing society: is there a transition problem? / Per-Olof Bjuggren and Daniel Wiberg -- 4. Telecommunications and regional disparities in an era of globalization: from conceptual issues to measurable policy impacts / Roberta Capello -- 5. Spatial policies, planning and urban competitiveness: the particular case of London / Paul Cheshire -- 6. Regional R & D outsourcing in bioscientific industries / Philip Cooke -- 7. Towards new European peripheries? / Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura -- 8. Elements of a knowledge network learning model / Kingsley E. Haynes and Hiroyuki Shibusawa -- 9. Is competition between regions welfare-increasing? / Gerhard C. Geerdink and Peter J. Stauvermann -- 10. Accessibility to R & D and patent production / Urban Gråsjö -- 11. Location of new industries: the ICT sector 1990-2000 / Börje Johansson and Thomas Paulsson -- 12. Agency control mechanisms and innovative effort / Raquel Ortega-Argilés, Rosina Moreno and Jordi Suriñach Caralt -- 13. Science-based regional development in a small region: scope of collective action for regional governments / Knut Koschatzky -- 14. Agglomeration economies and firm growth: testing for spatial externalities in the Dutch ICT industry / Frank G. van Oort and Erik Stam -- 15. Competition and cooperation in economic development among local jurisdictions in a large urban area / Roger R. Stough, Rajendra Kulkarni and Jean H.P. Paelinck.
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Providing a state-of-the-art overview of research on regional competition and co-operation, this title attempts to fully develop the understanding of the new role of regions and their behaviour, addressing questions such as how and why do regions compete.
Innovation, agglomeration, and regional competition.