Promoting Local Growth
Process, Practice and Policy
Published on 16. October 2001
Book
Hardback
406 pages
978-0-7546-1686-3 (ISBN)
Description
The resurgence of interest in growth at a local level has led to a revisiting of past ideas on regional growth. A common denominator of the renewed interest in the old story of regional growth relates to the openess of the locality and the region as primary indicator of localized change in a globalizing system. The thrust of this volume reflects observations made about the resurrected interest in regional growth. A selection of papers is presented, first to clarify some of the key concepts underlying the interest in local growth, and second to refocus some of the attention on issues of labour, welfare and distribution. Some of the papers were presented at the conference "Promoting Growth: New Industries, Policies and Forms of Governance", held in Israel 1999. Others are specially commissioned papers. In the "process" section papers examine key concepts underlying local growth, and the vocabulary of "ebeddedness", "learning regions", "social capital" and "industrial districts" used to invoke processes of growth is also critically examined.
The local growth "practice" section assembles empirical evidence of local growth stories grounded in technological innovation, Internet-based activities and tertiary-type activities. The third section of the book addresses issues of "policy". The papers in this section have an underlying ethos that "policy works".
The local growth "practice" section assembles empirical evidence of local growth stories grounded in technological innovation, Internet-based activities and tertiary-type activities. The third section of the book addresses issues of "policy". The papers in this section have an underlying ethos that "policy works".
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 156 mm
Width: 226 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-1686-3 (9780754616863)
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Promoting local growth - a new look at an old saga, Daniel Felsenstein, Michael Taylor. Part I Process: enterprise, embeddedness and local growth - inclusion, exclusion and social capital, Michael Taylor; analyzing local growth promotion - looking beyond employment and income counts, Daniel Felstenstein; knowledge-based industry for promoting growth, Sam Ock Park; identifying contexts of learning in firms and regions, Paivi Oinas, Hein van Gils; new forms of local governance in the emergence of industrial districts, Ayda Eraydin. Part II Practice: evaluating innovation centres in Germany - issues of methodology, empirical results and international comparison, Christine Tamasy; creating university-industry collaboration in Hong Kong, Jerry Patchell, Tony Eastham; promoting local growth in the Oxfordshire high-tech economy - local international settings, Helen Lawton Smith; technological change, local capabilities and the restructuring of a company town, Eirik Vatne; ethnic minorities' strategies for market formation - the Israeli Arab case, Michael Sofer, Itzhak Benenson, Izhak Schnell; electronic commerce - global-local relationships in financial services, John Langdale; the Internet age - not the end of geography, Edward J. Malecki; patterns of suburban office development - the spatial reach of office firms in metropolitan Tel Aviv, Baruch A. Kipnis, Oded Borenstein; hyper-footloose business services - the case of Swedish distance workers in the Mediterranean sun belt, Claes G. Alvstam, Annelie Jonsson. Part III Policy: regional policies - promoting competitiveness in the wake of globalization, Peter Maskell; promoting regional growth and convergence in the long-term master plan for Israel, Raphael Bar-El; knowledge economies and transitional labour markets - new regional growth engines, Lambert van der Laan; regulating labour, transforming human capital and promoting economic growth - the case of the UK skillcentres initiative, Simon Leonard; rethinking Auckland - local response to global challenges, Richard Le Heron, Philip McDermott.