Technological Change and Mature Industrial Regions: Firms, Knowledge, and Policy (New Horizons in Regional Science)

Rok: 2009
ISBN: 9781847200891
OKCZID: 110208892

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`Until recently, regional scientists put their main focus on successful regions but paid scant attention to mature industrial regions. A key achievement of this volume is that it goes beyond the usual description of mature regions as being hopeless cases. Instead, Farshchi et al. have brought together a number of superb contributions by world leading scholars that provide evidence-based insights on the complexity of structural adjustment in mature regions. This volume will also be of great value to policy makers who aim to change the economic fortunes of mature regions. There is no doubt this volume provides a timely and invaluable contribution to the literature on regional development and regional policy.' - Ron Boschma, Utrecht University, the Netherlands `This book provides a comprehensive analysis of one of the major problems of our rapidly changing world: how is it that some cities and regions move from prosperity to economic decline and why is that some regions restructure quicker than others? The various chapters in this book show that this is often associated with the rise and fall of certain key industries. Yet, regional decline is not the end of the story. Even when these industries are mature or declining, the competences acquired in a specific territory offer the opportunity to start new adventures and to generate new jobs, income and well-being. This book provides an excellent tool-kit for analysts and policy-makers as to how such restructuring operates.' - Daniele Archibugi, Italian National Research Council, Italy Technological Change and Mature Industrial Regions explicitly adopts an inter-disciplinary approach to analysing the structural transformation of mature regions. The major focus of the book is from an economics perspective, but it also employs sociological analyses, business history approaches and technological analyses. It critically considers the identification and development of regional capabilities and regional policy initiatives for mature industrial areas in the context of globalisation and technological change. Specific cases from a range of different countries help to distinguish which aspects of mature regions' technology, knowledge or structure are region-specific, and which are more generally applicable to mature industrial regions throughout the world. The book will prove to be invaluable for academic researchers as well as government and policy communities.

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