Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth

Notes on Contributors vii 1. Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth 1 Philip McCann and Les Oxley 2. Theories of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and the BusinessCycle 5 Simon C. Parker 3. The Transatlantic Productivity Gap: A Survey of the MainCauses 25 Raquel Ortega-Argilés 4. A Survey of the Innovation Surveys 53 Shangqin Hong, Les Oxley and Philip McCann 5. Knowledge Dynamics, Structural Change and the Geography ofBusiness Services 79 Tommaso Ciarli, Valentina Meliciani and Maria Savona 6. Multilevel Approaches and the Firm-Agglomeration Ambiguity inEconomic Growth Studies 105 Frank G. van Oort, Martijn J. Burger, Joris Knoben and OttoRaspe 7. A Relational Approach to the Geography of Innovation: ATypology of Regions 131 Rosina Moreno and Ernest Miguélez 8. An 'Integrated' Framework for the ComparativeAnalysis of the Territorial Innovation Dynamics of Developed andEmerging Countries 159 Riccardo Crescenzi and Andrés Rodr'yguez-Pose 9. Regional Innovation Systems within a Transitional Context:Evolutionary Comparison of the Electronics Industry in Shenzhen andDongguan Since the Opening of China 177 Wenying Fu, Javier Revilla Diez and Daniel Schiller Index 197