Book description
Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth provides a
timely, accessible review of our understanding of the complex links
between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth. Expert
contributions provide a thorough roadmap of the developments in
research at the interface of these themes.
- A timely and accessible review of our understanding of the complex
links between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth
- A highly comprehensive roadmap of the range of issues addressed by
research in these areas
- Discusses the most profitable ways forward for enhancing our
understanding of arising issues
- Contributions from leading experts in the field take a variety of
theoretical, empirical and institutional angles
Philip McCann holds Endowed Chair of Economic Geography at
University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He was formerly Professor of
Urban and Regional Economics in the Department of Economics at
University of Reading, UK. Professor McCann has been appointed as one
of two Special Advisers to the European Commissioner for Regional
Policy, providing expert counsel on matters related to the reform and
future development of European Cohesion Policy.
Les Oxley is Professor of Economics at University of Waikato,
New Zealand, Adjunct Professor at Curtin University of Technology,
Australia, and an affiliate of Motu Economic and Public Policy
Research. His research interests include modelling and testing
theories of economic growth, financial econometrics, energy economics
and cliometrics. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Economic
Surveys and sits on the editorial boards of several international journals.
