Theories of Endogenous Regional Growth: Lessons for Regional Policies (Advances in Spatial Science)

During the last two decades a new growth theory has emerged - often labelled "endogenous economic growth". The contributions in the book develop these advances into a theoretical framework for endogenous regional economic growth and explain the implications for regional economic policies in the perspective of the new century. Endogenous growth models can reflect increasing returns and hence refer more adequately to empirical observations than earlier models, and the models become policy relevant, because in endogenous growth models policy matters. Such policies comprise efforts to stimulate the growth of knowledge intensity of the labour supply and knowledge production in the form of R & D Front Matter....Pages i-ix Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction: Endogenous Regional Growth and Policies....Pages 3-13 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 Endogenous Growth Theory and the Role of Institutions in Regional Economic Development....Pages 17-48 Social Processes, and Regional Economic Development....Pages 49-76 Regional Dynamics with Endogenous Knowledge in a Multi-Sector Model....Pages 77-93 Technology and Regional Development: Theory Revisited....Pages 94-110 History, Spatial Structure, and Regional Growth: Lessons for Policy Making....Pages 111-134 Front Matter....Pages 135-135 Locational Advantage and Lessons for Territorial Competition in Europe....Pages 137-149 Geographie Transaction Costs and Specialisation Opportunities of Small and Medium-Sized Regions: Scale Economies and Market Extension....Pages 150-180 Trade and Regional Development: International and Interregional Competitiveness in Brazil....Pages 181-208 The Economic System of Small-to-Medium Sized Regions in Japan....Pages 209-230 Agglomeration, Enterprise Size, and Productivity....Pages 231-251 Front Matter....Pages 253-253 The Learning Region and Territorial Production Systems....Pages 255-277 Clustering and Economic Change: New Policy Orientations — The Case of Styria....Pages 278-298 The Italian Smallness Anomaly: Coexistence and Turbulence in the Market Structure....Pages 299-314 Knowledge Workers, Communication, and Spatial Diffusion....Pages 315-329 Regional Growth Theories and Local Economic Development: Some Case Studies....Pages 330-342 Front Matter....Pages 343-343 Universities and Regional Economic Development: Does Agglomeration Matter?....Pages 345-367 Change in Manufacturing Productivity in the U.S. South: Implications for Regional Growth Policy....Pages 368-392 Spatial Policy for Sparsely Populated Areas: A Forlorn Hope? Swedish Experiences....Pages 393-405 Theories of Endogenous Regional Growth — Lessons for Regional Policies....Pages 406-414 Back Matter....Pages 415-430