Handbook of industry studies and economic geography /
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| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA :
Edward Elgar,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction to the relationships between economic geography and industries: theory, empirics and modes of analysis; PART I HEAVY INDUSTRIES; 1 Steel industry restructuring and location; 2 The evolving geography of the US motor vehicle industry*; 3 The changing geography of the European auto industry; PART II CREATIVE AND CULTURAL INDUSTRIES; 4 Project-basedindustries and craft-like production: structure, location and performance; 5 Innovation, industry evolution and cross-sectoral skill transfer in the video game industry: a three-country study
- 6 Spatial divisions of labor: how key worker profiles vary for the same industry in different regions7 Museums in the neighborhood: the local economic impact of museums; PART III HIGH-TECHNOLOGY SECTORS; 8 Spinoff regions: entrepreneurial emergence and regional development in second-tier high-technology regions
- observations from the Oregon and Idaho electronics sectors; 9 Location, control and firm innovation: the case of the mobile handset industry; 10 How has information technology use shaped the geography of economic activity?
- 11 R&D, knowledge, economic growth and the transatlantic productivity gapPART IV RESOURCE-BASED SECTORS; 12 The changing structure of the global agribusiness sector; 13 Social capital and the development of industrial clusters: the northwest Ohio greenhouse cluster; 14 Computational structure for linking life cycle assessment and input-output modeling: a case study on urban recycling and remanufacturing; 15 The importance of the water management sector in Dutch agriculture and the wider economy; PART V KNOWLEDGE- AND NETWORK-BASED ACTIVITIES
- 16 The geography of research and development activity in the US17 Offshore assembly and service industries in Latin America; 18 The global air transport industry: a comparative analysis of network structures in major continental regions; 19 Innovation in New Zealand: issues of firm size, local market size and economic geography; 20 They are industrial districts, but not as we know them!; Index