Regional Development Reconsidered
Contributors: Gündüz Atalik (Editor); Manfred M. Fischer (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 26, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9783540436102
Subjects: Economics; Regional & Area Planning; Regional geography; Regional planning; General; Economic Integration; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Regional Economics; Science/Mathematics; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Economics - General; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev; Public Policy - Regional Planning; Business & Economics / Urban & Regional; Cooperation; Knowledge Based Economy; Political Science / Regional Planning; Regional Development; Europe; European cooperation
First sentence: It has become increasingly recognised that the location of economic activities cannot be properly understood in isolation from its wider socio-economic context, and, thus, we cannot understand regional development without linking it to the epochal transition to a knowledge-based or learning economy that we are currently witnessing (OECD, 1996).