Regional Development

The highly centralised, top down governance structure that the UK deploys is less than ideally placed to rectify the widespread inequalities that characterise its regions. In a landmark analysis of the current state of Britain’s regional development, Philip McCann utilises current statistics, examin..

The highly centralised, top down governance structure that the UK deploys is less than ideally placed to rectify the widespread inequalities that characterise its regions. In a landmark analysis of the current state of Britain’s regional development, Philip McCann utilises current statistics, examin..

Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers around the world. They are global players with significant local direct and indirect impacts – on employment, the built environment, business innovation and the wider society. The University and the City explores ..

In this new volume, 28 Scandinavian researchers and others who are active in arts and culture seek to answer the questions: What has been the effect of regional and local investment in arts and culture? What positive and negative experiences have there been?  This book describes and analyzes the ext..

 Tourism has become one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world economy. Increasingly, research on tourism destinations has been at the centre of debates concerning destination competitiveness, governance, policies and destination management and marketing. This book investigates tour..

Most developed economies, including single-industry and resource dependent rural or small town regions, are transforming rapidly as a result of social, political, and economic change. Collectively, they face a number of challenges as well as new opportunities. This international collaboration descri..

Persistent high employment and growing labour market inequality have become entrenched features of many European countries. This edited collection of papers focuses on the regional and local dimensions of these problems across Europe...

_x005F_x000D_ The editors of this volume draw together thinking from a range of disciplines and from a range of countries across Europe in order to form a theory of business cluster evolution. Topics explored include the capability approach, network dynamics, multinational corporations, firm entry a..

An important synthesis of economic geography and industrial relations work, this book marks a major contribution towards the newly emerging field of labour geography...

This book explores how universities in less successful regions contribute to processes of regional economic development and innovative growth. _x000D_ Universities are complex organisations, and can have difficulties in producing co-ordinated action around their knowledge production and circulation ..

Increasingly, and since the expansion of the European Union in 2004 in particular, themes of academic entrepreneurship, university-business links, knowledge and innovation have become important on a Europe-wide scale. This book draws together key thinkers from across the continent to analyze the imp..

During the past 25 years the burden of managing economic policy for competitiveness has devolved to cities and to urban regions. National governments have increasingly been focused on staving off fiscal collapse. This book explores this evolving role of cities and urban regions...