Applied Evolutionary Economics and Economic Geography

Edited by Koen Frenken, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

• Contents:Preface 1. Introduction: Applications of Evolutionary Economic GeographyRon A. Boschma and Koen FrenkenPART I: ENTREPRENEURSHIP2. The Cambridge High-Tech Cluster: An Evolutionary PerspectiveElizabeth Garnsey and Paul Heffernan3. Sophia-Antipolis as a ‘Reverse’ Science Park: From Exogenous to Endogenous DevelopmentMichel QuéréPART II: INDUSTRIAL DYNAMICS4. The Evolution of Geographic Structure in New Industries Steven Klepper5. Constructing Entrepreneurial Opportunity: Environmental Movements and the Transformation of Regional Regulatory Regimes Brandon Lee and Wesley Sine6. Absorptive Capacity and Foreign Spillovers: A Stochastic Frontier ApproachJojo Jacob and Bart Los PART III: NETWORK ANALYSIS7. Informational Complexity and the Flow of Knowledge Across Social BoundariesOlav Sorenson, Jan W. Rivkin and Lee Fleming8. Networks and Heterogeneous Performance of Cluster FirmsElisa Giuliani9. Social Networks and the Economics of NetworksDaniel BirkePART IV: SPATIAL SYSTEMS10. Diversity, Stability and Regional Growth in the United States, 1975–2002Jürgen Essletzbichler11. Inter-regional Knowledge Flows in Europe: An Econometric AnalysisMario A. Maggioni and T. Erika Uberti12. Explaining the Territorial Adoption of New Technologies: A Spatial Econometric ApproachAndrea Bonaccorsi, Lucia Piscitello and Cristina RossiPART V: PLANNING13. Evolutionary Urban Transportation Planning? An ExplorationLuca BertoliniIndex

'. . . I recommend the book wholeheartedly to both economics and geography scholars interested in evolutionary economic thinking in a spatial perspective.'