This impressive new book uniquely focuses on the phenomenon of media clusters and is designed to inform policy makers, scholars, and media practitioners about the underlying challenges of media firm agglomerations, their potential, and their effects

Increasingly, endogenous factors and processes are being emphasized as drivers in regional economic development and growth. This 15 chapter book is unique in that it commences by presenting five disciplinary takes on endogenous development from the perspectives of economics, geography,...

1. Introduction / Charlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson and Roger R. Stough -- 2. Globalization and the emergence of the entrepreneurial society / David B. Audretsch. -- 3. New firm formation and economic development in a globalizing economy / Sierdjan Koster and Charlie Karlsson -- 4....

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