Regional Economic Change in Europe: A Neo-Schumpeterian VisionLIT Verlag Münster, 2004 - 215 pages "In this era of ongoing globalization a coherent vision on Europe's changing geo-economy is more important than ever before. Drawing on the work of Schumpeter, Fourasti'e and Perroux, the book at hand offers a new and policy-oriented perspective on regional economic change in Europe. Conceptually, it develops a middle-range theory by extending Schumpeter's vision with a sectoral and spatial dimension. This neo-Schumpeterian framework is concretized by exploring fifty years of structural change in Sardinia, the Ruhrgebiet and the Öresund. " |
Contents
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53 Regional economic change in the Ruhrgebiet | 119 |
54 An appraisal of the Ruhrs change strategy | 124 |
55 Concluding remarks | 127 |
The Öresund a core services region | 129 |
62 A sketch of the Öresund | 130 |
63 Regional economic change in the Öresund | 136 |
64 An appraisal of the Öresunds change strategy | 140 |
65 Concluding remarks | 145 |
24 Perroux and agglomeration theory | 55 |
25 Concluding remarks | 65 |
A framework of regional economic change | 67 |
32 Towards a neoSchumpeterian framework | 68 |
33 The position of growth poles in the change process | 74 |
34 Regional economic change in Europe | 83 |
35 Concluding remarks | 90 |
Sardinia a peripheral agricultural region | 92 |
42 A sketch of the island of Sardinia | 93 |
43 Regional economic change in Sardinia | 100 |
44 An appraisal of Sardinias change strategy | 105 |
45 Concluding remarks | 110 |
The Ruhrgebiet an intermediate industrial region | 112 |
52 A sketch of the Ruhrgebiet | 113 |
Government and regional economic change | 147 |
72 The present state of regional policy in Europe | 148 |
73 A neoSchumpeterian view on regional policy | 156 |
74 Multilevel perspectives and regional economic change | 164 |
75 Concluding remarks | 173 |
Conclusion beyond Europes Blue Banana | 176 |
is it all Bananas? | 180 |
83 Reflections on neoSchumpeterian economics | 184 |
trend through tradition in Europe | 189 |
References | 190 |
Summary in Dutch | 209 |
About the author | 215 |
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