Handbook of Regions and Competitiveness

Edited by Robert Huggins, Professor of Economic Geography and Director, Cities Research Centre, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff and Piers Thompson, Reader in Economics, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, UK

• Contents:1. Introducing Regional Competitiveness and Development: Contemporary Theories and PerspectivesRobert Huggins and Piers ThompsonPART I REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH2. Explaining Regional Growth and ChangeMichael Storper3. Measuring and Monitoring Regional Competitiveness in the European UnionPaola Annoni and Lewis Dijkstra 4. Regional Competitiveness and Economic Growth: The Evolution of Explanatory ModelsRichard Harris5. Explaining Regional Economic Performance: The Role of Competitiveness, Specialization and CapabilitiesJan Fagerberg and Martin Srholec 6. Economic Competitiveness and Regional Development DynamicsEdward J. MaleckiPART II THE PRINCIPAL ELEMENTS OF REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS7. Regional Competitiveness: Connecting an Old Concept With New GoalsKarl Aiginger and Matthias Firgo8. Regional Economic Competition and Place-Based PoliciesFrank Van Oort and Mark Thissen9. The Dynamics of Regional CompetitivenessUgo Fratesi10. Territorial Capital, Competitiveness and Regional DevelopmentRoberto Camagni11. A Network Theory of Regional Competitiveness: Innovation, Entrepreneurship and GrowthRobert Huggins and Piers ThompsonPART III REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS, RESILIENCE AND QUALITY12. Resilience, Networks and Competitiveness: A Conceptual FrameworkJoan Crespo, Ron Boschma and Pierre-Alexandre Balland13. Competitiveness and Regional Economic ResilienceRon Martin and Peter Sunley14. Regional Resilience in Italy: Do Employment and Income Tell the Same Story?Roberto Cellini, Paolo Di Caro and GianpieroTorrisi15. Quality and Space: A Framework for Quality-Based Regional CompetitivenessJohan Jansson and Anders WaxellPART IV COMPETITIVENESS AND EMERGING REGIONS16. Innovation and Competitiveness in the Periphery of EuropeAndrés Rodríguez-Pose and Callum Wilkie17. Urban Land, Infrastructure and Competitiveness in the Global SouthIvan Turok18. Competitive and Uncompetitive Regions in Transition Economies: The Case of the Visegrad Post-Socialist CountriesImre LengyelPART V URBAN REGIONS AND CITY COMPETITIVENESS19. Urban Sustainable Competitiveness: A Comparative Analysis of 500 Cities Around The WorldPengfei Ni and Yufei Wang20. Competition and Cooperation in the Hong Kong-Shenzhen RegionJianfa Shen21. Measuring Urban Competitiveness In EuropeLucía Sáez and Iñaki PeriáñezPART VI REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS STRATEGIES AND POLICY22. Upgrading Regional Competitiveness: What Role for Regional Governments?Christian Ketels23. The Strategic Management of Places and Regional CompetitivenessDavid Audretsch, Hugo Menendez, Aileen Richardson and Apexa Mamtora24. Regional Competitiveness, Policy Transfer and Smart SpecializationPhilip Mccann and Raquel Ortega-Argilés25. Regional Competitiveness Policy in an Era of Smart Specialization StrategiesMari José Aranguren, Edurne Magro and James R. WilsonIndex

'This book helps us better understand the geography of economic competitiveness. With contributions from an international cast of leading scholars, it shows what works and what doesn't and what it means for efforts to improve the competitiveness of regions and nations.'