List of contributors ........................................... ix
Introduction: regional growth and development theories in the
twenty-first century - recent theoretical advances and future
challenges ...................................................... 1
Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp
PART I GROWTH THEORIES AND SPACE
1 Theories of agglomeration and regional economic growth:
a historical review ......................................... 19
Philip McCann and Frank van Oort
2 Space, growth and development ............................... 33
Roberta Capello
3 Location/allocation of regional growth ...................... 53
Gunther Maier and Michaela Trippl
4 Regional growth and trade in the new economic geography
and other recent theories ................................... 66
Kieran P. Donaghy
5 Endogenous growth theories: agglomeration benefits and
transportation costs ........................................ 86
G. Alfredo Minerva and Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano
PART II DEVELOPMENT THEORIES: REGIONAL PRODUCTION FACTORS
6 Agglomeration, productivity and regional growth:
production theory approaches ............................... 101
Jeffrey P. Cohen and Catherine J. Morrison Paul
7 Territorial capital and regional development ............... 118
Roberto Camagni
8 Human capital and regional development ..................... 133
Alessandra Faggian and Philip McCann
9 Infrastructure and regional development .................... 152
Johannes Brocker and Piet Rietveld
10 Entrepreneurship and regional development .................. 182
Manfred M. Fischer and Peter Nijkamp
PART III DEVELOPMENT THEORIES: INNOVATION, KNOWLEDGE AND
SPACE
11 Knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship and regional
development ................................................ 201
David B. Audretsch and T. Taylor Aldridge
12 R&D spillovers and regional growth ......................... 211
Daria Denti
13 Knowledge and regional development ......................... 239
Borje Johansson and Charlie Karlsson
14 Agglomeration externalities, innovation and regional
growth: theoretical perspectives and meta-analysis ......... 256
Henri L.F. de Groot, Jacques Poot and Martijn J. Smit
15 Sustainable development and regional growth ................ 282
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal and Peter Nijkamp
PART IV REGIONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT MEASUREMENT METHODS
16 Measuring agglomeration .................................... 305
Ryohei Nakamura and Catherine J. Morrison Paul
17 Measuring the regional divide .............................. 329
Roberto Ezcurra and Andrés Rodriguez-Pose
18 Measuring regional endogenous growth ....................... 354
Robert J. Stimson, Alistair Robson and Tung-Kai Shyу
19 Regional growth and convergence: heterogeneous reaction
versus interaction in spatial econometric approaches ....... 374
Cem Ertur and Julie Le Gallo
20 CGE modeling in space: a survey ............................ 389
Kieran P. Donaghy
21 Modern regional input-output and impact analyses ........... 423
Jan Oosterhaven and Karen R. Polenske
PART V REGIONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT POLICIES
22 Institutions and regional development ...................... 443
T.R. Lakshmanan and Ken J. Button
23 Regional policy: rationale, foundations and measurement
of its effects ............................................. 461
Jouke van Dijk, Henk Folmer and Jan Oosterhaven
24 New regional policies for less developed areas: the case
of India ................................................... 479
Maria Abreu and Maria Savona
25 Economic decline and public intervention: do special
economic zones matter? ..................................... 495
Peter Friedrich and Chang Woon Nam
Index ......................................................... 525
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