"This book provides a coherent and useful framework to explain the formation of agglomeration and the endogenous innovation process of upgrading industrial clusters to the higher R&D. It contains country studies including; China, India, Japan, Brazil, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore"--Provided...

Regional economics - an established discipline for several decades - has gone through a rapid pace of change in the past decade and several new perspectives have emerged. At the same time the methodology has shown surprising development. This volume brings together contributions looking at new...

Contents: Chapter 1: Mapping industrial and territorial dimensions for the design of place-based innovation policies: The rationale of the book / Roberta Capello, Alexander Kleibrink and Monika Matusiak -- Part 1: Understanding the economic fabric of territories -- Chapter 2: Establishing the...

Regional economics - an established discipline for several decades - has gone through a rapid pace of change in the past decade and several new perspectives have emerged. At the same time the methodology has shown surprising development. This volume brings together contributions looking at new...