附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index.
Cover; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Preface; 1. Technology and entrepreneurship; 2. Knowledge, innovation and firm size; 3. Local geographic spillovers; 4. Sectoral characteristics; 5. Innovation of entrepreneurial firms; 6. Capital structure, innovation and firm size; 7. Employment growth in metropolitan areas; 8. Employment, wages and R & D spillovers; 9. Heterogeneity versus specialization; 10. Regional innovation systems; 11. Epilogue: towards a 'new model of regional economic development'?; Appendix A: The innovation database.
摘要:Zoltan Acs explores the relationship between industrial innovation and economic growth at regional level and reaches conclusions as to why some regions grow and others decline. The book focuses on innovation and the growth of cities by the use of endogenous growth theory.
