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The need for qualitative and effective insights on key concepts and models on regional development and growth, from an endogenous perspective, has increased over the past decade. Their use through, which various assets and their regional and local characteristics are enhanced in the creativity, knowledge and innovation forces and processes of entrepreneurial socio-economic activities, have become of paramount importance in a regional dynamic economic environment in a city or region. This volume provides an overview of their spatial roots, impacts and new establishment survival on evidence-based analysis of (non-)European studies. The results and strategic options are interpreted and discussed from both an analytical and a policy perspective to help cultivate creativity, human capital development and innovation and entrepreneurial activity as drivers of economic development to give a city or region its competitive edge.
List of contents
Preface.- Part I: Concepts and Models.- Part II: Evidence-Based Analysis: European Studies.- Part III: Evidence-Based Analysis: Non-European Studies.- Part IV: Outlook and Policy.-
About the author
Peter Nijkamp is Professor in Regional and Urban Economics and in Economic Geography at the VU University, Amsterdam. His main research interests cover quantitative plan evaluation, regional and urban modelling, multicriteria analysis, transport systems analysis, mathematical systems modelling, technological innovation, entrepreneurship, environmental and resource management, and sustainable development. In the past years he has focussed his research in particular on new quantitative methods for policy analysis, as well as on spatial-behavioural analysis of economic agents. He has a broad expertise in the area of public policy, services planning, infrastructure management and environmental protection. In all these fields he has published many books and numerous articles.§In 1996, he was awarded the most prestigious scientific prize in the Netherlands, the Spinoza award.
Summary
The need for informed and effective insights into key concepts and models of regional development and growth, from an endogenous growth perspective, has risen over the past decade. These recent advances address in particular local and regional assets and characteristics comprising inter alia creativity, knowledge, innovation forces and entrepreneurship. Access to and exploitation of these modern forms of human and social capital are of paramount importance for the dynamic regional economic environment in a city or region. This volume offers an overview and critical treatment of the spatial-economic roots, opportunities and impacts of new growth strategies, mainly from an evidence-based perspective. In the various contributions to this volume, relevant findings and strategic options are interpreted and discussed from both an analytical and a policy perspective to help cultivate creativity, human capital development and innovation as well as entrepreneurial activity, with a view to exploit the drivers of economic development, in order to strengthen the competitive edge of cities and regions.
