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Structural Change in Transportation and Communications in the Knowledge Society
Edited by Kiyoshi Kobayashi, T. R. Lakshmanan, William P. Anderson
The transformation of the world economy from a system of nations trading materials-intensive goods to a system of seamless global networks for information-intensive goods and services has created the need for a comprehensive restructurin...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Networks in the Innovation Process
Holger Graf
Innovation has long been regarded as an interactive process between heterogeneous actors and as a crucial factor in local and regional development. This timely and significant book focuses on the interactions existing within local networ... -
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Competition in the Railway Industry
Edited by José A. Gómez-Ibáñez, Ginés de Rus
Numerous countries have attempted to improve the performance of their railways by introducing more competition, but there is fierce debate and no consensus on how this is best achieved. This book reveals how railways were an obvious targ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Growth of Cities
Edited by Zoltán J. Ács
To understand why some regions grow and others stagnate, we need to understand the interactions between economic growth, economic geography and the economics of innovation. Each of these individual approaches has strengths and weaknesses... -
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Clusters and Globalisation
Edited by Christos Pitelis, Roger Sugden, James R. Wilson
Clusters and Globalisation brings together scholars with different perspectives and theoretical groundings, and from different disciplines, to consider conceptual arguments and case study material. In doing so the volume identifies key c...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement
Edited by Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Siew-Ean Khoo
This book examines the role of immigration policy, and of economic and social policies involved in promoting the settlement of immigrants to Australia. It is based on research of two groups of recent immigrants who arrived six years apar...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Entrepreneurship, Investment and Spatial Dynamics
Edited by Peter Nijkamp, Ronald L. Moomaw, Iulia Traistaru-Siedschlag
Enlargement of the EU increases economic diversity and inequality between countries and regions, making cohesion difficult. This book attempts to provide a deeper understanding of the interaction between investment, knowledge spillovers ... -
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Regional Climate Change and Variability
Edited by Matthias Ruth, Kieran Donaghy, Paul Kirshen
In its development of methodologies and their applications to individual regions, this book presents a rich set of insights and a set of guides for investment and policymaking. Each of the six studies focuses on a finer geographic scale ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Spatial Dynamics, Networks and Modelling
Edited by Aura Reggiani, Peter Nijkamp
This important new book provides a valuable set of studies on spatial dynamics, emerging networks and modelling efforts. It employs interdisciplinary concepts alongside innovative trajectories to highlight recent advances in analysing an...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Telecommunications, Transportation and Location
Kenneth Button, Roger R. Stough, Michelle Bragg, Samantha Taylor
Telecommunications, Transportation and Location contains both sytheses and interpretations of what others have found in regard to these interactions as well as new work that extends earlier findings. The material is presented in a rigoro...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Global Regionalization
Edited by H. S. Geyer
Global Regionalization examines the astonishing political and economic changes that have completely reshaped the political geography of certain regions during the past fifteen years. It deals with the concept of global bloc formation, ex... -
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Innovation Strategies in Interdependent States
John de la Mothe
Examining the issues facing smaller regions and countries, John de la Mothe explores how innovation, strategy and interdependence shape their performance, competition, and futures.eBook:Find out more£25.00