Regions That Work
Author: Manuel Pastor
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781452904412
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Working Regions
Author: Jennifer Clark
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-29
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1135923841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorking Regions focuses on policy aimed at building sustainable and resilient regional economies in the wake of the global recession. Using examples of four ‘working regions’ — regions where research and design functions and manufacturing still coexist in the same cities — the book argues for a new approach to regional economic development. It does this by highlighting policies that foster innovation and manufacturing in small firms, focus research centers on pushing innovation down the supply chain, and support dynamic, design-driven firm networks. This book traces several key themes underlying the core proposition that for a region to work, it has to link research and manufacturing activities — namely, innovation and production — in the same place. Among the topics discussed in this volume are the issues of how the location of research and development infrastructure produces a clear role of the state in innovation and production systems, and how policy emphasis on pre-production processes in the 1990s has obscured the financialization of intellectual property. Throughout the book, the author draws on examples from diverse industries, including the medical devices industry and the US photonics industry, in order to illustrate the different themes of working regions and the various institutional models operating in various countries and regions.
OECD Regions and Cities at a Glance 2020
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2020-11-30
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9264324984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRegions and Cities at a Glance 2020 provides a comprehensive assessment of how regions and cities across the OECD are progressing towards stronger, more sustainable and more resilient economies and societies. In the light of the health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the report analyses outcomes and drivers of social, economic and environmental resilience.
OECD Regions at a Glance 2009
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2009-03-23
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9264056114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWell over one-third of the total economic output of OECD countries is generated by just 10% of OECD regions. This one-stop guide for understanding regional competitiveness provides comparative statistical information at the sub-national level, graphs, maps and growth strategies.
Employment Location in Cities and Regions
Author: Francesca Pagliara
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-11-06
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 3642317790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe focus of this book is the modeling of the location of economic activities, measured in terms of employment, in land-use and transportation systems. These measures are key inputs to models at intra-urban scales of the flows of persons and goods for both urban and transport planning. The models described here are either components of comprehensive models or specialist studies. Economic activities can be defined in terms of jobs or private-sector firms and public service organisations. Different levels of aggregation are used both in terms of organisational and geographical dimensions. In the case of firms and public organizations, a distinction can be made between the organizations themselves and corresponding establishments. For urban simulation models, it is the location of establishments that is important. At the more coarse levels of aggregation that are usually used in comprehensive models, firms and organizations are aggregated into sectors.
Reanimating Regions
Author: James Riding
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-05-12
Total Pages: 537
ISBN-13: 1317395034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWriting regions, undertaking a regional study, was once a standard form of geographic communication and critique. This was until the quantitative revolution in the middle of the previous century and more definitively the critical turn in human geography towards the end of the twentieth century. From then on writing regions as they were experienced phenomenologically, or arguing culturally, historically, and politically with regions, was deemed to be old-fashioned. Yet the region is, and always will be, a central geographical concept, and thinking about regions can tell us a lot about the history of the discipline called geography. Despite taking up an identifiable place within the geographical imagination in scholarship and beyond, region remains a relatively forgotten, under-used, and in part under-theorised term. Reanimating Regions marks the continued reinvigoration of a set of disciplinary debates surrounding regions, the regional, and regional geography. Across 18 chapters from international, interdisciplinary scholars, this book writes and performs region as a temporary permanence, something held stable, not fixed and absolute, at different points in time, for different purposes. There is, as this expansive volume outlines, no single reading of a region. Reanimating Regions collectively rebalances the region within geography and geographical thought. In renewing the geography of regions as not only a site of investigation but also as an analytical framework through which to write the world, what emerges is a powerful reworking of the geographic imagination. Read against one another, the chapters weave together timely commentaries on region and regions across the globe, with a particular emphasis upon the regional as played out in the United Kingdom, and regional worlds both within and beyond Europe, offering chapters from Africa and South America. Addressing both the political and the cultural, this volume responds to the need for a consolidated and considered reflection on region, the regional, and regional geography, speaking directly to broader intellectual concerns with performance, aesthetics, identity, mobilities, the environment, and the body.
OECD Regions at a Glance 2005
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2005-08-25
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9264018646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOECD Regions at a Glance presents a series of regional indicators for OECD countries comparing regional performance in such areas as economic growth, productivity, industry specialisation, education, health, safety, commuting times, etc.
Farm Employment, by Regions, 1931-1949
Author: United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Publisher:
Published: 1950
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Global Competitiveness of Regions
Author: Robert Huggins
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-27
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1135128987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this book is to consider theoretically the notion of the global competitiveness of regions, as well as giving attention as to how such competitiveness may be empirically measured. With this in mind, the book has three specific objectives: first, to place the concept of regional competitiveness within the context of regional economic development theory; second, to present a rationale and method for quantifying the global competitiveness of regions; and, third, to undertake the most geographically widespread analysis of regional competitiveness differences across the globe. With regard to the third goal, the analysis incorporates more than 500 regions across Europe, North and South America, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and the so-called BRIC economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China. The importance of the concept of competitiveness has increased rapidly in recent years, with the issues surrounding it becoming, at the same time, more empirically refined and theoretically complex. The focus on regions reflects the growing consensus that they are the primary spatial units that compete to attract investment, and it is at the regional level that knowledge is circulated and transferred, resulting in agglomerations, or clusters, of industrial and service sector enterprises. This growing acknowledgement of the region’s role as a key spatial unit of organisation has led to attention turning to competitiveness at a more regional level. The book explores the results of the World Competitiveness Index of Regions (WCIR), covering the rankings and results of the 2014 edition. The WCIR provides a tool for analysing the development of a range of regional economies across the globe. It enables an illustration of the changing patterns of regional competitiveness on the international stage to be generated. In fundamental terms, the WCIR aims to produce an integrated and overall benchmark of the knowledge capacity, capability, and sustainability of each region, and the extent to which this knowledge is translated into economic value and transferred into the wealth of the citizens of each region.
OECD Regional Outlook 2023 The Longstanding Geography of Inequalities
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2023-10-02
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9264341161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report, Regional Outlook 2023 – The Longstanding Geography of Inequalities, provides novel evidence on the evolution of inequalities between OECD regions across several dimensions (including income and access to services) over the past twenty years.
