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This volume investigates the dynamics of regional performance in advanced countries and the mechanisms that allow some regions to grow more rapidly than others, to become and remain more competitive in the long run. The authors show how the capability of regions to innovate is enhanced by a large number of factors, including entrepreneurship, clustering, creativity, new technologies, human capital and the presence of internal, intra-regional, and external, extra-regional, connections. The book is mainly theoretical, but all chapters also analyze the policy consequences. Moreover, the empirical results reinforce the theoretical findings and as such are more broadly applicable and not bound to the specific case. The general reach of the theoretical arguments, and the focus on policy consequences, make this book helpful for both scholars and policymakers.

Economic assistance. --- Economic development. --- Economic policy. --- Regional economics. --- Management --- Sociology & Social History --- Business & Economics --- Social Sciences --- Management Theory --- Economic Theory --- Communities - Urban Groups --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic geography. --- Industrial organization. --- Spatial economics. --- Economics. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Economic Geography. --- Economic Policy. --- Industrial Organization. --- Economics --- Regional planning --- Regionalism --- Space in economics --- Economic policy --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Geography. --- Industries --- Organization --- Industrial concentration --- Industrial management --- Industrial sociology --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Geography, Economic --- World economics --- Geography --- Commercial geography --- Spatial economics --- Regional economics