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, Professor Emeritus, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the Centre for European Studies, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iasi, Romania and the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, China

• Contents:Introduction: Regional Growth and Development Theories in the Twenty-first Century – Recent Theoretical Advances and Future ChallengesRoberta Capello and Peter NijkampPART I: GROWTH THEORIES AND SPACE1. Theories of Agglomeration and Regional Economic Growth: A Historical ReviewPhilip McCann and Frank van Oort2. Space, Growth and DevelopmentRoberta Capello3. Location/Allocation of Regional GrowthGunther Maier and Michaela Trippl4. Regional Growth and Trade in the New Economic Geography and Other Recent TheoriesKieran P. Donaghy5. Endogenous Growth Theories: Agglomeration Benefits and Transportation CostsG. Alfredo Minerva and Gianmarco I.P. OttavianoPART II: DEVELOPMENT THEORIES: REGIONAL PRODUCTION FACTORS6. Agglomeration, Productivity and Regional Growth: Production TheoryApproachesJeffrey P. Cohen and Catherine J. Morrison Paul7. Territorial Capital and Regional DevelopmentRoberto Camagni8. Human Capital and Regional DevelopmentAlessandra Faggian and Philip McCann9. Infrastructure and Regional DevelopmentJohannes Bröcker and Piet Rietveld10. Entrepreneurship and Regional DevelopmentManfred M. Fischer and Peter NijkampPART III: DEVELOPMENT THEORIES: INNOVATION, KNOWLEDGE AND SPACE11. Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurship and Regional DevelopmentDavid B. Audretsch and T. Taylor Aldridge12. R&D Spillovers and Regional GrowthDaria Denti13. Knowledge and Regional Development Börje Johansson and Charlie Karlsson14. Agglomeration Externalities, Innovation and Regional Growth: Theoretical Perspectives and Meta-AnalysisHenri L.F. de Groot, Jacques Poot and Martijn J. Smit15. Sustainable Development and Regional GrowthAmitrajeet A. Batabyal and Peter NijkampPART IV: REGIONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT MEASUREMENT METHODS16. Measuring AgglomerationRyohei Nakamura and Catherine J. Morrison Paul17. Measuring the Regional DivideRoberto Ezcurra and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose18. Measuring Regional Endogenous GrowthRobert J. Stimson, Alistair Robson and Tung-Kai Shyy19. Regional Growth and Convergence: Heterogeneous Reaction versus Interaction in Spatial Econometric ApproachesCem Ertur and Julie Le Gallo20. CGE Modeling in Space: A SurveyKieran P. Donaghy21. Modern Regional Input–Output and Impact AnalysesJan Oosterhaven and Karen R. PolenskePART V: REGIONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT POLICIES22. Institutions and Regional DevelopmentT.R. Lakshmanan and Kenneth J. Button23. Regional Policy: Rationale, Foundations and Measurement of its EffectsJouke van Dijk, Henk Folmer and Jan Oosterhaven24. New Regional Policies for Less Developed Areas: The Case of IndiaMaria Abreu and Maria Savona25. Economic Decline and Public Intervention: Do Special Economic Zones Matter?Peter Friedrich and Chang Woon NamIndex

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