Title: Promoting Local Growth: Process, Practice and Policy
Abstract:Promoting local growth - a new look at an old saga, Daniel Felsenstein, Michael Taylor. Part I Process: enterprise, embeddedness and local growth - inclusion, exclusion and social capital, Michael Tay...Promoting local growth - a new look at an old saga, Daniel Felsenstein, Michael Taylor. Part I Process: enterprise, embeddedness and local growth - inclusion, exclusion and social capital, Michael Taylor analyzing local growth promotion - looking beyond employment and income counts, Daniel Felstenstein knowledge-based industry for promoting growth, Sam Ock Park identifying contexts of learning in firms and regions, Paivi Oinas, Hein van Gils new forms of local governance in the emergence of industrial districts, Ayda Eraydin. Part II Practice: evaluating innovation centres in Germany - issues of methodology, empirical results and international comparison, Christine Tamasy creating university-industry collaboration in Hong Kong, Jerry Patchell, Tony Eastham promoting local growth in the Oxfordshire high-tech economy - local international settings, Helen Lawton Smith technological change, local capabilities and the restructuring of a company town, Eirik Vatne ethnic minorities' strategies for market formation - the Israeli Arab case, Michael Sofer, Itzhak Benenson, Izhak Schnell electronic commerce - global-local relationships in financial services, John Langdale the Internet age - not the end of geography, Edward J. Malecki patterns of suburban office development - the spatial reach of office firms in metropolitan Tel Aviv, Baruch A. Kipnis, Oded Borenstein hyper-footloose business services - the case of Swedish distance workers in the Mediterranean sun belt, Claes G. Alvstam, Annelie Jonsson. Part III Policy: regional policies - promoting competitiveness in the wake of globalization, Peter Maskell promoting regional growth and convergence in the long-term master plan for Israel, Raphael Bar-El knowledge economies and transitional labour markets - new regional growth engines, Lambert van der Laan regulating labour, transforming human capital and promoting economic growth - the case of the UK skillcentres initiative, Simon Leonard rethinking Auckland - local response to global challenges, Richard Le Heron, Philip McDermott.Read More
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-05-24
Language: en
Type: book
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