Scholars of the geography of innovation have produced an impressive body of literature
over the last decades. However, until recently this research focused on successful core …

This paper contributes to filling the theoretical and practical gaps of city resilience literature,
which lacks multifaceted theorizing and typically overlooks the multidisciplinary and complex …

ÔThis is vintage Allen Scott, but also a tour dÕhorizon of the state of urban studies, 2012, by
one of its foremost global practitioners: compulsory reading. Õ Ð Peter Hall, University …

This book offers insights into the process and the practice of local economic development.
Bridging the gap between theory and practice it demonstrates the relevance of theory to …

KIBS research to date has been conducted mainly by taking an innovation perspective
where an explicit focus on knowledge processes is not very well pronounced. The paper …

I argue that three distinctive waves of urbanization can be recognized, each of them
associated with a major historical phase of capitalist development. The leading edges of …

This book explores the relationship between space and economy, the spatial expressions of
the knowledge economy. The capitalist industrial economy produced its own space, which …

This groundbreaking book is the first comparative analysis of the relative strengths of global
bioregions. Growth Cultures investigates the rapidly growing phenomena of biotechnology …

Abstract C respy C., H eraud J.-A. and P erry, B. Citation (2007) Multi-level governance,
regions and science in France: between competition and equality, Regional Studies 41 …

Across Europe there is a rapidly changing context for undertaking regional development. In
the 20th century, development of the former planned economies (Bulgaria, Czech Republic …