It has almost become de rigueur that geographers who write about money and finance will,
at some stage, bemoan their apparent isolation within the discipline and berate their …

Over the past forty years, state/provincial and local governments in the United States and
Canada have provided foreign automakers with approximately $4.80 billion in incentives in …

BASS SJ (1998) Japanese research parks: national policy and local development, Reg.
Studies 32, 391±403. Many important regional high technology (RHT) initiatives have …

Shift‐share analysis is used to examine the role of spatial structure on changes in regional
manufacturing employment, in contrast to the traditional focus of shift‐share studies on the …

R eiffenstein T. Specialization, centralization, and the distribution of patent intermediaries in
the USA and Japan, Regional Studies. The preparation, examination and litigation of …

La science régionale, science jeune, se construit peu àpeu une place originale. Elle
parvient progressivement à faire imposer ses concepts et ses approches. Ainsi, les travaux …

The study of innovation mechanisms in one of Japan's major industrial regions (Chukyo,
based around Nagoya) is explored using a four-part model. This identifies the role of core …

The crisis of Japan's political economy raises the question of how it has dealt with the
restructuring of its peripheral industrial regions, and the degree to which it has embraced …

Osaka was once the commercial, financial and industrial center of Japan. However, in the
last 100 years or so its position has deteriorated relative to Tokyo and especially so …

Abstract E ssletzbichler J. and K adokawa K. The evolution of regional labour productivities
in Japanese manufacturing, 1968–2004. Regional Studies. The success of the Japanese …