Technological Change and Mature Industrial Regions

Edited by Mahtab A. Farshchi, University of West London, Odile E.M. Janne, Lecturer in Management, Birkbeck College, University of London and Philip McCann, Sir Terry Leahy Chair in Urban and Regional Economics, The Productivity Institute, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK

• Contents:PART I: MATURE REGIONS: TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY AND INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE1. The Problems of Mature Regions: An Introduction and OverviewMahtab Akhavan Farshchi, Odile E.M. Janne and Philip McCann2. Regional Capabilities and Industrial RegenerationNick von Tunzelmann 3. Multinational Firms and Technological Innovation: The ‘Global Versus Local’ ChallengeSimona Iammarino, Odile E.M. Janne and Philip McCann4. Interdependence Among the Brazilian States: An Input–Output ApproachFernando Salgueiro Perobelli, Eduardo Amaral Haddad and Edson Paulo Domingues5. The Changing Structure of Trade and Interdependence in a Mature Economy: The US MidwestGeoffrey J.D. Hewings and John B. Parr6. Mature Industries and Declining Regions: An Analysis of the Spanish CaseJosep-Maria Arauzo-Carod and Elisabet Viladecans-MarsalPART II: MATURE REGION–INDUSTRY CASE STUDIES7. Birmingham’s Marshallian Knowledge: A Constraining Geo-Historical Context for Domestic Saloon Manufacturers?Peter Clark8. Life After Longbridge? Crisis and Restructuring in the West Midlands Auto ClusterDavid Bailey and Seiji Kobayashi9. Massachusetts Medical Devices: Leveraging the Region’s Capabilities Michael H. Best10. Economic Restructuring, Regional ‘Visioning’ and the Role of Universities: The Outcomes of an Automobile Plant Closure in Southern Adelaide, AustraliaAndrew Beer and Holli Thomas11. Maturity or Decline of Italian Industrial DistrictsIvana Paniccia12. Knowledge Spillovers and Industrial Transformation: The West Midlands and Saxony Automotive ClustersOdile E.M. Janne and Mahtab Akhavan FarshchiPART III: REGIONAL POLICY AND MATURE INDUSTRIAL REGIONS13. A Cost–Benefit Approach to the Assessment of Regional PolicyJ. Kim Swales14. Regional Policies in Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom: A Shift in Paradigm?Ilaria Mariotti 15. Innovation Policy After the ‘Celtic Tiger’Declan Jordan and Eoin O’Leary16. Grants and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from the UK RegionsColin Wren and Jonathan Jones 17. Cluster Policy Implementation and Evaluation in Slovenia: Lessons from a Transition EconomyAnja Cotič Svetina, Marko Jaklič and Hugo Zagorsek18. Lagging Regions and Policy Options: The Case of Greece in the European ContextYannis Psycharis and George PetrakosIndex

'. . . the timing of this book is fortuitous as mature regions around the world struggle through the Great Recession of 2008-2009. Many of the chapters inform the reader about how regions with important manufacturing industries have responded to longer term forces of change from globalization to technological advances. Political constraints and limitations of regional development policy across a diverse set of mature industrial regions are revealed. Policy wonks, development bureaucrats, and academics will each find chapters that help them think about new directions for public development initiatives.'