Books in the Routledge Studies in Global Competition series

This book addresses the question of the best possible uses of public funds and the most effective strategies for regional development, focusing on the develop of human capital and the methodology of formulating regional policy.

A contribution to the discussion of the knowledge economy and innovation, offering a range of theoretical insights from different disciplinary perspectives.

This book takes the approach that all local economic clusters have something in common. It does this by putting specific case studies into a wider perspective.

This book comprises nine papers approaching designed institutions and their interplay with spontaneous institutions from various angles.

This book explores the uneven patterns of economic development within the EU, discusses the relative effect of investments on innovation and productivity growth and looks at the mechanisms involved in development and policy.

Using comparisons between regions, this book examines various trends towards mergers and acquisitions in Japan, Greater China and Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2004.

This informative new book analyses the extent and major determinants of the east and west European industrial networks in reinforcing the competitive advantages of the EU and CEECs.

Addresses the question of the best possible uses of public funds and the most effective strategies for regional development, focusing on the development of human capital and the methodology of formulating regional policy.

Offers readers with insights into the theoretical foundations of targeting as well as empirical methods, and also approaches for using the community-level analysis to affect policy directions. This book includes papers that present issues surrounding community economic development and clusters in industry and rural communities.

The phenomenon of entrepreneurship has attracted researchers from a variety of disciplines and a diverse number of analytical approaches. This book provides an overview of the research in the field, and also summarizes the policy conclusions that can be drawn from such research.

Analyzes theoretically and empirically, the effects of globalization over space. This book considers, through a dialogue among different paradigms, the ways in which space has become more important in the global economy. It covers viewpoints from the fields of: international political economy; economic geography; and, regional and local economics.

This collection of essays shows the high degree of complementarity between foreign direct investment and home export, challenging the long held fear that firms investing abroad leads to a loss of employment and decline in the home country.

Written by an expert in the field of the Economics of Innovation, this work provides a systematic account of advances in the economics of innovation. By integrating this account with the economics of technological change, it elaborates an understanding of the effects of the introduction of new technologies.

China's immersion into the world trading system is the key development in international trade over the last few years. This intriguing book focuses on the attempts of European firms to crack this potentially huge market.

This book focuses on three main areas, each of which is central to economic theorising: firms' organisation and behaviour, technological change and the process of globalisation. What this collection provides is a broad view of the three topics by concentrating on different aspects of each of them, and utilising different methods of investigation.

Offers an analysis of how firms manage to reconfigure their pool of resources, to deal with the environments in which they are embedded, thus tackling the issue of how dynamic capabilities must be defined and conceptualized. This book observes formal and informal types of organization at different levels of analysis.

Brings together international experts from different continents to examine creativity and innovation in the cultural economy. This collection provides a contemporary resource for researchers and advanced students.

Brings evolutionary economics to bear upon economic geography in a coordinated study of the European Union.

Explores the characteristics of the path dependent dynamics of localized technological change, demonstrating how the economics of complexity can inform our understanding of the economics of innovation and vice versa.

Presents a critical perspective on several issues surrounding the economics of the firms. Suitable for postgraduate students of economics, this book eschews standard approaches to the economics of the firm (including analysis of transaction costs) in favour of a more interdisciplinary outlook, with evolutionary economics taken into account.

Examines the theories of co-opetition and includes empirically based case studies. This book also offers experimental evidence from the laboratory. It is intended for those involved with strategic management.

Examines discourses of knowledge and innovation in post-industrial societies and knowledge-based organizations. This book investigates the value of knowledge and the question of innovation management in a commercial environment for a technology company. It reveals the ambiguities and challenges of innovation management.

Focuses on the relationships between rules of decision-making and economic development, concentrating on the similarities and differences between old and modern modes of governance in both business and politics. This book shows how maritime trade spawned many organizational innovations in the past that still feature modern innovative enterprise.

Japan's high-speed Internet access services such as ADSL, CATV Internet and FTTH are considered the cheapest and fastest services drawing international attention. This book introduces the status of broadband services in Japan and their development in competition policy. It also discusses an econometric model to analyse access demand.

Examines the main dimensions of knowledge intensive entrepreneurship, the factors affecting its emergence, evolution and performance and the importance of knowledge intensive entrepreneurship for European growth and competitiveness.

Markets previously unreachable for companies other than monopolies or other protected firms are now frequently open to new entrants. This book focuses on strategy in emerging markets, in particular establishments in liberalized European markets.

This book explores the regional dimension of Europe in terms of localised technological comparative advantages and the location of innovative activities by Multinational Corporations.

Why do companies seek to collaborate with one another in developing and applying knowledge and how do they organize this? This book takes a single knowledge-based perspective and demonstrates a detailed argument with the qualitative discussion of an actual "innovation network".