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Informationen zum Autor John F. McDonald Klappentext The factors that determine growth at the industry level are different for innovative versus mature industries. Growth industries rely on high-quality workers, access to capital, technical change, and numerous forms of collected economies. Mature industries concentrate on low-input costs and minimizing costs for wages, transportation, taxes, material, etc. This approach is adopted here to consider the growth and development of metropolitan economies.In twelve chapters, eminent scholars provide a complete review of what works - and what doesn't - in generating economic development. What are the potential and the reality of producer services, suburban business centers, enterprise zones, technology-based ventures, and industrial incubators? How can economic development policy improve the incubator effect? Is there a nationwide venture capital network? What are the locational requirements of firms in high-growth industries? Finally, what are the consequences of failed growth?This comprehensive collection includes chapters by Edwin S. Mills; Patricia E. Beeson; Mark A. Satterthwaite; Breandán Ó Huallacháin; John F. McDonald; William B. Beyers; Truman A. Hartshorn; Peter O. Muller; Rodney A. Erickson; Richard Florida; Donald F. Smith, Jr.; Claudia Bird Schoonhoven; Kathleen M. Eisenhardt; Stephen Nord; Robert G. Sheets; and Thomas R. Hammer. This workis a must read for policymakers, planners, analysts, and students. Zusammenfassung The factors that determine growth at the industry level are different for innovative versus mature industries Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I Empirical Analysis of Metropolitan Growth; 1: Sectoral Clustering and Metropolitan Development; 2: Agglomeration Economies and Productivity Growth; PART II Empirical Analysis of Metropolitan Growth; 3: High-growth Industries and Uneven Metropolitan Growth; 4: Economic Structure and Growth of Metropolitan Areas; 5: Assessing the Development Status of Metropolitan Areas; PART III Empirical Analysis of Key Sectors; 6: Producer Services and Metropolitan Growth and Development; 7: The Suburban Downtown and Urban Economic Development Today; IV: Policy and Metropolitan Economic Development; 8: Enterprise Zones: Lessons from the State Government Experience; 9: Venture Capital’s Role in Economic Development: An Empirical Analysis; 10: Regions as Industrial Incubators of Technology-based Ventures; V: Economic Change and Urban Social Problems; 11: Service Industries and the Working Poor in Major Metropolitan Areas in the United States; 12: Economic Determinants of Underclass Behavior...
