1. Urbanisation and development : policy lessons from the BRICS' experience / Gordon McGranahan and George Martine -- 2. Brazil's negligent urban transition and its legacy of divided cities / George Martine and Gordon McGranahan -- 3. China's radical urbanisation and brining capital and labour...

Metropolitan growth has been dramatic in the past several decades, and today metropolitan regions are recognized as the main driving forces in national growth and development as well as in national and global innovation processes. The purpose of this book is to contribute to a better...

Machine generated contents note: 1 Technology and entrepreneurship 1 -- 2 Knowledge, innovation and firm size 24 -- 3 Local geographic spillovers 44 -- 4 Sectoral characteristics 63 -- 5 Innovation of entrepreneurial firms 74 -- 6 Capital structure, innovation and firm size 98 -- 7 Employment...