Global Competitiveness and Innovation

Gordon Clark is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography and Fellow of the Said Business School at the University of Oxford. He has taught public policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, the University of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon University and Monash University. His research interests combine economic geography with global finance and include regional economic development, corporate governance, finance markets, pensions and environmental regulation. Paul Tracey is Lecturer in Social Enterprise at the Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge. He has held academic posts at the Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Newcastle, and the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. His research interests include regional economic development, entrepreneurship and the social economy.

• Introduction Agents and Institutions Path Dependence and Development Competitive Strategy and Clusters of Innovation Cognition, Learning and the New Economy Global Competitiveness