Technological Change in a Spatial Context: Theory, Empirical Evidence and Policy

ISBN-13: 9783642759314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 400 str.

Enrico Ciciotti; Neil Alderman; Alfred Thwaites

Opis

This book represents a selection of contributions to the Regional Science Association, European Summer Institute, held at Arco, Lake of Garda, Italy, from 17th to 23rd July 1988 on the theme of 'Theories and policies of technological development at the local level'. As such it forms a complementary volume to the collection of invited papers entitled 'The Spatial Context of Technological Development', edited by Professors Riccardo Cappellin and Peter Nijk.amp, and published by Avebury/Gower. The Summer Institute covered a broad range of themes and contributions from over 100 researchers. It has therefore not been our intention to represent or replicate these themes directly, but to provide as wide an international coverage of current research in regional science in the field of technological change as possible. The papers to be found in this book are drawn from the European Community, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, North America and elsewhere. Inevitably, as the book was to be published in English, most of the editorial work has been undertaken at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies at Newcastle University. In so doing, we have attempted to standardize the English as far as possible, whilst trying not to lose the characteristics of the styles of the individual authors.

Spis treści

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.