Handbook of Regional Growth and Development Theories

Edited by Roberta Capello, Professor of Regional and Urban Economics, ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano, Italy and Peter Nijkamp, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and Faculty of Economics, Rijeka University, Rijeka, Croatia

• Contents:Introduction to the second edition: novelties and advancesRoberta Capello and Peter NijkampPart I Growth Theories and Space1. Theories of Agglomeration and Regional Economic Growth: a Historical ReviewPhilip McCann and Frank van Oort 2. Space, Growth and Development: a Historical Perspective and Recent AdvancesRoberta Capello3. Location/Allocation of Regional Growth Gunther Maier and Michaela Trippl4. Regional Growth and Trade in the New Economic Geography and Other Recent TheoriesKieran P. Donaghy 5. Leadership, Institutions and Regional Economic Development and GrowthRoger `R. StoughPart II Development Theories: Regional Production Factors6. Agglomeration, Productivity and Regional Growth: Production Theory ApproachesJeffrey P. Cohen, Cletus C. Coughlin, and Catherine J. Morrison Paul 7. Territorial Capital and Regional Development: Theoretical Insights and Appropriate PoliciesRoberto Camagni8. Human Capital and Regional Development Alessandra Faggian, Félix Modrego and Philip McCann 9. Infrastructure and Regional Development Johannes Bröcker, Dirk Dohse and Piet Rietveld10. The Nexus of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development Manfred M. Fischer and Peter Nijkamp11. Foreign Direct Investments, Global Value Chains and Regional DevelopmentLaura ResminiPart III Development Theories: Innovation, Knowledge and Space12. Theories of Innovation in Space: Path-breaking Achievements in Regional ScienceRoberta Capello13. Innovation and space. Achievements and prospectsCamilla Lenzi14. R&D Spillovers and Regional Development/Growth Daria Denti15. Regional Development and KnowledgeBorje Johansson and Charlie Karlsson16. Territorial development and proximity relationsAndré Torre17. Sustainable Development and Regional Growth RevisitedAmitrajeet A. Batabyal and Peter Nijkamp 18. Spatial Clusters and Regional DevelopmentKarima Kourtit and Peter GordonPart IV Regional Growth and Development Measurement Methods19. Measuring AgglomerationRyohei Nakamura and Catherine J. Morrison Paul20. Investigating endogenous regional performanceRobert J. Stimson, William Mitchell, Michael Flanagan, and Alistair Robson21. Spatial-Economic Disparities and Convergence Stilianos Alexiadis22. Heterogeneous reaction versus interaction in spatial econometric regional growth and convergence modelsJulie Le Gallo and Cem Ertur 23. CGE Modelling in Space: a SurveyKieran P. Donaghy 24. Modern Regional Input-Output and Impact AnalysesJan Oosterhaven, Karen R. Polenske and Geoffrey J. D. HewingsPart V Regional Growth and Development Policies 25. Institutions and Regional DevelopmentT.R. Lakshmanan and Ken J. Button26. Regional Policy: Rationale, Foundations and Measurement of EffectsJouke van Dijk, Henk Folmer and Jan Oosterhaven27. Regional Policy Models: a ReviewAna M. B. Barufi and Eduardo A. Haddad28. Quantitative Evaluation Techniques for Regional PoliciesAugusto Cerqua and Guido Pellegrini29. The Regional Adjustment Model: An Instrument of Evidence-based PolicyJohn I. Carruthers and Gordon F. Mulligan 30. Economic Decline and Public Intervention: Do Special Economic Zones Matter?Peter Friedrich and Chang Woon Nam Index

'Capello and Nijkamp's significantly extended and updated Handbook is a tour de force of the best scholars in regional science. It is a complete guide to the theories, methodologies and literature of the field, and should be on the desk of all regional science and regional economic scholars.'