This book provides a sampling of the toolkit available to analysts interested in understanding and interpreting the complexity of the spatial structure of sub-national economies. The set of tools ranges from the more traditional to new developments.

This unique Handbook examines the impacts on, and responses to, economic geography explicitly from the perspective of the behaviour, mechanics, systems and experiences of different firms in various types of industries. The industry studies approach allows the authors to explain why the economic geography of these different industries exhibits such particular and diverse characteristics.