Abstract

“Societies in Motion: Innovation, Migration and Regional Transformation” is reviewed by Joanna Ganning. “Brands and Branking Geography” is reviewed by Neil Reid. “From Agglomeration to Innovation: Upgrading Industrial Clusters in Emerging Economies” is reviewed by Charles van Marrewijk.

Highlights

  • As the Preface to Societies in Motion describes, the editors have devoted this book to studying the space-time processes resulting from spatial mobility, and the outcomes the processes have for regional development, industrial innovation, and spatial mobility patterns

  • The chapters engage a wide range of methods, ranging from argumentative papers relying on no statistics or on simple descriptive statistics, to regression models, to fully theoretical spatial econometric model development

  • The section’s third paper, Chapter 3 (“The role of monetary and financial factors in regional development: an overview,” by Ridhwan, Nijkamp, Rietveld, and de Groot), stands out for its rare focus on developing economies, which it accomplishes via an evaluation of financial mobility within countries

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Introduction

As the Preface to Societies in Motion describes, the editors have devoted this book to studying the space-time processes resulting from spatial mobility, and the outcomes the processes have for regional development, industrial innovation, and spatial mobility patterns. In two of the book’s four sections (Part 1: Regional Development and Part 3: Human Capital, Migration, and Labor Force), the chapters loosely frame their overarching themes.

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