Proximity, Distance And Diversity
Subtitle: Issues On Economic Interaction And Local Development (Ashgate Economic Geography Series)
Contributors: Arnoud Lagendijk (Editor); Paivi Oinas (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: May 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780754640745
Subjects: Development economics; Economic development; Business/Economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Regional economics; General; Development - Economic Development; Case studies; Industrial districts
First sentence: While Storper (1995) famously acclaimed that regional economies have resurged at the centre of contemporary analyses on economic development - and this claim has been echoed in various forms in the course of the past decade - it is still frustratingly unclear why the region should be so central in improving innovativeness and productivity growth (cf. Gertler 2003, p. 132).