The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of entrepreneurship and innovations for economic development in functional regions and in doing that highlighting the different conditions offered for entrepreneurship and innovations in functional regions of various sizes. In conclusion, the...

Taken together, the thirteen chapters of this book combinethe literature on the role of the entrepreneur with the new economic geographyliterature in order to illuminate the spatial context in which economicdevelopment takes place.The volume consists of four parts.While thefirst part is...

During the last two decades a new growth theory has emerged - often labelled "endogenous economic growth". The contributions in the book develop these advances into a theoretical framework for endogenous regional economic growth and explain the implications for regional economic policies in the...