Wealth from Diversity : Innovation, Structural Change and Finance for Regional Development in Europe

Wealth from Diversity presents a new approach to the problems of structural change and regional dynamics in the context of globalization, specifically focused on the experience of the European integration process. The book reviews different aspects of structural change and regional development including: Increasing returns and cumulativeness in the dynamics of structural change at the regional level; Technological learning and the distribution of innovative capabilities; The globalization of innovation, networks, regional diversity and the regionalization of technology policy; Inter-firm cooperation, external investment and external control; Endogenous credit creation, finance and regional development; Strategies for integration and strategies for competition at the European level. This important new collective work is intended for academics, policy practitioners and students in the fields of economic growth, structural change, regional development, regional financing and innovation, and technology policy