1. Introduction : cultural political economy of small cities / Anne Lorentzen and Bas van Heur -- 2. Small cities and the sociospatial specificity of economic development : a heuristic approach / Bas van Heur -- 3. On a road to nowhere : a comment on amenities and urban and regional development...

This illuminating Handbook presents the state-of-the-art in the scientific field of experience economy studies. It offers a rich and varied collection of contributions that discuss different issues of crucial importance for our understanding of the experience economy. Each chapter reflects...

This compact and authoritative book brings together the topical themes of networks and governance to advance understanding of the determinants of local economic development in the context of increasingly global relationships.

This article discusses the birth and evolution of a festival that has targeted the entrepreneurial dynamics in the provincial city of Frederikshavn (North Denmark). The festival was initiated in 2004 to confront a local economic crisis and has enjoyed support from a broad range of stakeholders....

This article discusses the relationship between experience-oriented development and urban governance and planning, based on a case study of the city of Frederikshavn (DK). Triggered in 1999 by a sudden local economic crisis, Frederikshavn entered a process that reinvented its “mental frame”...

This article addresses the opportunities of cities, big and small, in the experience economy. It proposes an understanding of “experience economy”, which encompasses not only entertainment and culture, but also services and places. To territorial development, the most interesting kind of...

The article introduces the special issue on the role and transformation of the city in the experience economy and raises some research issues. The issue focuses on the transformative aspects that can be identified in relation to experience oriented planning and development. We show how...

The assumption that geographic proximity between innovating partners is of great importance is widely unquestioned and it has been documented by studies of high-tech areas in advanced countries. Until now, the pattern of cooperation among firms in low- and medium-tech industry in more peripheral...

What role do various kinds of proximity play in the current and projected development of peripheral areas? In summarizing and drawing conclusions from this special issue on proximity, this paper elaborates on two core notions of proximity, geographical and organizational. It presents a framework...

The paper deals with the learning and innovation strategies of manufacturing companies in the economies of transformation. The point of departure is the development of a theoretical framework dealing with innovation, knowledge and learning. The case is of two manufacturing companies in Poland,...