Introduction : about the origin of local innovations / Hubert Heinelt, Björn Egner and Nikolaos-Komninos Hlepas -- Why are some cities more innovative than others? : an answer based on an interpretive concept / Hubert Heinelt and Georgios Terizakis -- Athens / Nikolaos-Komninos Hlepas --...

We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of manufacturing employment in the year of its country's...