Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth provides a timely, accessible review of our understanding of the complex links between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth, and the ways in which they drive economic development. Contributions from leading experts in the field take a variety of theoretical, empirical and institutional angles, and importantly, they each operate at the interface between at least two of these key aspects. The chapters are organized to reflect the shifts in our understanding of these relationships, which initially operated at the interface between micro and macroeconomic theoretical models; they were then developed econometrically using aggregate sectoral data, and have since rapidly been extended through the use of microeconometric and survey data to examine more disaggregated geographical and institutional aspects. The result is a thorough roadmap of the range of issues addressed by research at the interface between these various aspects. The book also provides a reflection of the developments in our understanding of these relationships, and a discussion of the most profitable ways forward for enhancing our understanding of these issues in the future.

Notes on Contributors vii 1. Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth 1 Philip McCann and Les Oxley 2. Theories of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and the Business Cycle 5 Simon C. Parker 3. The Transatlantic Productivity Gap: A Survey of the Main Causes 25 Raquel Ortega–Argilés 4. A Survey of the Innovation Surveys 53 Shangqin Hong, Les Oxley and Philip McCann 5. Knowledge Dynamics, Structural Change and the Geography of Business Services 79 Tommaso Ciarli, Valentina Meliciani and Maria Savona 6. Multilevel Approaches and the Firm–Agglomeration Ambiguity in Economic Growth Studies 105 Frank G. van Oort, Martijn J. Burger, Joris Knoben and Otto Raspe 7. A Relational Approach to the Geography of Innovation: A Typology of Regions 131 Rosina Moreno and Ernest Miguélez 8. An ‘Integrated’ Framework for the Comparative Analysis of the Territorial Innovation Dynamics of Developed and Emerging Countries 159 Riccardo Crescenzi and Andrés Rodr’yguez–Pose 9. Regional Innovation Systems within a Transitional Context: Evolutionary Comparison of the Electronics Industry in Shenzhen and Dongguan Since the Opening of China 177 Wenying Fu, Javier Revilla Diez and Daniel Schiller Index 197

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.