This book brings together various contributions to the field of spatial equilibrium modelling, including overviews from different perspectives, new theoretical results and applications. Some recent developments receive ample attention, such as instruments in spatial price equilibrium models,...

Introduction -- PartI: Economic Growth in a Knowledge - Based Economy -- Part II: Globalisation, Competitiveness and Growth -- Part III: The Role of Public Policies in Fostering Innovation, Competitiveness and Growth

This book offers a panoramic view of recent advances in spatial complexity, in order to enhance our understanding of complex spatial networks by simplicity in terms of both the basic driving forces of systemic impacts and the modelling of such systems. Simple models mapping out the evolution of...