Technological Change in a Spatial Context

This book provides a wide ranging review of current research and thinking about the spatial context of technological change. It covers a broad range of essential concepts with treatments from different perspectives and disciplines and should appeal to a wide audience.

Inhalt
1 Introduction.- I Theoretical and Conceptual Issues.- 2 Functional logic and territorial logic and how they inter-relate in the region.- 3 Innovation diffusion and small firms: between the agency of lifeworld and the structure of systems.- 4 Technology transfer, technological capability and industrial structure in developing countries.- 5 The organization variable in developing countries' industrial development.- 6 The implications of monopsony for regional technological change.- 7 Differentiation, entry, innovation in the system of cities.- II Methodological Issues.- 8 The arrival of new activities and the dual forward-looking edition of the (improved) Leontief dynamic inverse.- 9 Methodological issues in the development of predictive models of innovation diffusion.- 10 A longitudinal analysis of the growth of firms.- III Regional Issues: Some Empirical Evidence.- 11 A study of the performance and technology level of manufacturing industry in Danish regions 19721981.- 12 Interaction of income generation capacity and technology in the regions of Hungary.- 13 Locational and technological factors in rural industrialization: a comparative investigation.- 14 Regional differences and determinants of entrepreneurial innovation empirical results of an Austrian case study.- 15 Innovation diffusion, innovation acquisition and path dependency in traditional sectors: an empirical investigation for the Veneto region of Italy.- IV Policy Issues.- 16 Regional technology trajectories and European research and technology development policies.- 17 Determinants of the restructuring of Poland's economy in the 1980s.- 18 Policies to support innovation in Emilia-Romagna: experiences, prospects and theoretical aspects.- 19 The changing role of municipalities inLisbon metropolitan region as a result of technological change.- List of Contributors.