Remaking regional economies:
Christopherson, Susa
Remaking regional economies: power, labor, and firm strategies in the knowledge economy / by Susan Christopherson and Jennifer Clark - Oxon: Routledge, 2009. - xi,:176p. - routledge studies in economic geography .
Section 1: Shaping the Regional Project --
1. Introduction --
2. Firm Strategies: Resources, Context, and Territory --
3. Labor Markets and the Regional Project --
Section 2: Case Studies --
4. The Evolution of the Optics and Imaging Industry --
5. Runaway Production: Media Concentration and Spatial Competition --
Section 3: Learning Regions and Innovation Policies --
6. The Paradox of Innovation: Why Regional Innovation Systems Produce so Little Innovation (and so Few Jobs) --
7. The Learning Region Disconnect --
8. Remaking Regions: Considering Scale and Combining Investment and Distribution
Since the early 1980s, the region has been central to thinking about the character of the global economy. This book offers a critique of the 'new regionalism' and covers the 'regional question', including its concerns with equity and uneven development. It challenges to consider the region as a central scale of action in the global economy.
9780415551281
Regional economics
338.064 / CHR-R
Remaking regional economies: power, labor, and firm strategies in the knowledge economy / by Susan Christopherson and Jennifer Clark - Oxon: Routledge, 2009. - xi,:176p. - routledge studies in economic geography .
Section 1: Shaping the Regional Project --
1. Introduction --
2. Firm Strategies: Resources, Context, and Territory --
3. Labor Markets and the Regional Project --
Section 2: Case Studies --
4. The Evolution of the Optics and Imaging Industry --
5. Runaway Production: Media Concentration and Spatial Competition --
Section 3: Learning Regions and Innovation Policies --
6. The Paradox of Innovation: Why Regional Innovation Systems Produce so Little Innovation (and so Few Jobs) --
7. The Learning Region Disconnect --
8. Remaking Regions: Considering Scale and Combining Investment and Distribution
Since the early 1980s, the region has been central to thinking about the character of the global economy. This book offers a critique of the 'new regionalism' and covers the 'regional question', including its concerns with equity and uneven development. It challenges to consider the region as a central scale of action in the global economy.
9780415551281
Regional economics
338.064 / CHR-R