Technological Change in a Spatial Context

. Ed(s): Ciciotti, Enrico; Alderman, Neil; Thwaites, Alfred

ISBN 10: 3642759319 / ISBN 13: 9783642759314

Editore: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, 2011

Editor(s): Ciciotti, Enrico; Alderman, Neil; Thwaites, Alfred. Num Pages: 400 pages, 41 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: KCP; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 170 x 22. Weight in Grams: 707. . 2011. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Codice articolo V9783642759314

Riassunto:

This book provides a wide ranging review of current research and thinking about the spatial context of technological change. It covers a broad range of essential concepts with treatments from different perspectives and disciplines and should appeal to a wide audience.

Contenuti: 1 Introduction.- I ― Theoretical and Conceptual Issues.- 2 Functional logic and territorial logic and how they inter-relate in the region.- 3 Innovation diffusion and small firms: between the agency of lifeworld and the structure of systems.- 4 Technology transfer, technological capability and industrial structure in developing countries.- 5 The organization variable in developing countries’ industrial development.- 6 The implications of monopsony for regional technological change.- 7 Differentiation, entry, innovation in the system of cities.- II ― Methodological Issues.- 8 The arrival of new activities and the dual forward-looking edition of the (improved) Leontief dynamic inverse.- 9 Methodological issues in the development of predictive models of innovation diffusion.- 10 A longitudinal analysis of the growth of firms.- III ― Regional Issues: Some Empirical Evidence.- 11 A study of the performance and technology level of manufacturing industry in Danish regions 1972–1981.- 12 Interaction of income generation capacity and technology in the regions of Hungary.- 13 Locational and technological factors in rural industrialization: a comparative investigation.- 14 Regional differences and determinants of entrepreneurial innovation ― empirical results of an Austrian case study.- 15 Innovation diffusion, innovation acquisition and path dependency in traditional sectors: an empirical investigation for the Veneto region of Italy.- IV ― Policy Issues.- 16 Regional technology trajectories and European research and technology development policies.- 17 Determinants of the restructuring of Poland’s economy in the 1980s.- 18 Policies to support innovation in Emilia-Romagna: experiences, prospects and theoretical aspects.- 19 The changing role of municipalities in Lisbon metropolitan region as a result of technological change.- List of Contributors.

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Titolo: Technological Change in a Spatial Context
Casa editrice: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Data di pubblicazione: 2011
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: New