Author : A. Kuchiki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230251013
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.
Author : Michael J Andrews
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 022681078X
"Innovation and entrepreneurship are ubiquitous today, both as fields of study and as starting points for conversations among experts in government and economic development. But while these areas on continue to attract public and private investments, many measurements of their resulting economic growth-including productivity growth and business dynamism-have remained modest. Why this difference? Because not all business sectors are the same, and the transformative gains of some industries have been offset by stagnation or contraction in others. Accordingly, a nuanced understanding of the economy requires a nuanced understanding of where innovation and entrepreneurship occur and where they matter. Answering these questions allows for strategic public investment and the infrastructure for economic growth.The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth, the latest entry in the NBER conference series, seeks to codify these answers. The editors leverage industry studies to identify specific examples of productivity improvements enabled by innovation and entrepreneurship, including those from new production technologies, increased competition, new organizational forms, and other means. Taken together, the volume illuminates whether the contribution of innovation and entrepreneurship to economic growth is likely to be concentrated, be it selected sectors or more broadly"--
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 2001-06-11
Category :
ISBN : 9264193383
Policies to stimulate innovation at national and local levels must both build on and contribute to the dynamics of innovative clusters. This book presents a series of papers written by policy makers and academic experts in the field, that demonstrate why and how this can be done.
Author : The World Bank;Government of Rwanda
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 24,81 MB
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464812853
A strong and widely acknowledged record of economic success-including a three-and-a-half-fold increase in per capita income since 1994--places Rwanda among the world’s fastest--growing economies. Traumatic memories of the 1994 genocide are gradually fading, as associations begin to take a more positive form--of a nation on the rise, powered by human resilience, a sense of common purpose, and a purposeful government. Past successes and a sense of frailty have fueled aspirations for a secure, prosperous, and modern future. Sustaining high rates of economic growth is at the heart of these ambitions. Recent formulations of the nation’s Vision 2050 set a target of achieving upper-middle-income status by 2035 and high-income status by 2050. Future Drivers of Growth in Rwanda: Innovation, Integration, Agglomeration, and Competition, a joint undertaking by experts from Rwanda and the World Bank Group, evaluates the country’s possibilities and options in this endeavor. The report identifies four essential drivers of growth--innovation, integration, agglomeration, and competition--and reforms in six priority areas: human capital development, export dynamism and regional integration, well-managed urbanization, competitive domestic enterprises, agricultural modernization, and capable and accountable public institutions.
Author : Edward L. Glaeser
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 30,60 MB
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226297926
When firms and people are located near each other in cities and in industrial clusters, they benefit in various ways, including by reducing the costs of exchanging goods and ideas. One might assume that these benefits would become less important as transportation and communication costs fall. Paradoxically, however, cities have become increasingly important, and even within cities industrial clusters remain vital. Agglomeration Economics brings together a group of essays that examine the reasons why economic activity continues to cluster together despite the falling costs of moving goods and transmitting information. The studies cover a wide range of topics and approach the economics of agglomeration from different angles. Together they advance our understanding of agglomeration and its implications for a globalized world.
Author : Akifumi Kuchiki
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 22,53 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0857935135
This lucid and informative book analyzes the problems of clusters in transition through studies of agglomerations at different stages of development in various East Asian countries. The contributors reconsider industrial cluster policy within a more dynamic and long-term framework, and explore how regional transformations can bring new insights to the theory of agglomeration and innovation. By identifying the factors and policies to promote upgrading, the authors establish the theoretical and policy basis for transforming industrial clusters from production-oriented to innovation-oriented agglomerations. They also study the important structural changes in the region, such as FTAs and the role of the WTO, and the consequent effects on clusters. Researchers and students of Asian economics, industrial clusters and innovation will find this incisive book invaluable. It will also prove to be a compelling read for policymakers in developing countries or international development organizations.
Author : Philip N. Cooke
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1847209947
Analyses the economic development of cities from the 'cultural economy' and 'creative industry' perspectives.
Author : Charlie Karlsson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Providing a state-of-the-art overview of research on regional competition and co-operation, this title attempts to fully develop the understanding of the new role of regions and their behaviour, addressing questions such as how and why do regions compete.
Author : Charlie Karlsson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1783472634
Regional economic development has experienced considerable dynamism over recent years. Perhaps the most notable cases were the rise of China and India to emergent country status by the turn of the millennium.
Author : M.P. Feldman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401733333
This book offers a geographic dimension to the study of innovation and product commercialization. Building on the literature in economics and geography, this book demonstrates that product innovation clusters spatially in regions which provide concentrations of the knowledge needed for the commercialization process. The book develops a conceptual model which links the location of new product innovations to the sources of these knowledge inputs. The geographic concentration of this knowledge fonns a technological infrastructure which promotes infonnation transfers, and lowers the risks and the costs of engaging in innovative activity. Empirical estimation confinns that the location of product innovation is related to the underlying technological infrastructure, and that the location of the knowledge inputs are mutually reinforcing in defining a region's competitive advantage. The book concludes by considering the policy implications of these fmdings for both private finns and state governments. This work is intended for academics, policy practitioners and students in the fields of innovation and technological change, geography and regional science, and economic development. This work is part of a larger research effort to understand why the location of innovative activity varies spatially, specifically the externalities and increasing returns which accrue to location. xi Acknowledgements This work has benefitted greatly from discussions with friends and colleagues. I wish to specifically note the contribution of Mark Kamlet, Wes Cohen, Richard Florida, Zoltan Acs and David Audretsch. I would like to thank Gail Cohen Shaivitz for her dedication in editing the final manuscript.
