Technology and economic development: the dynamics of local, regional, and national change

Abstract

Part 1 Economic growth and decline - theories and facts: global production technology, regions, and economic development regional disparity - cores and peripheries growth or development? regional planning technological capability. Part 2 The measurement of regional economic activity: the economic base and regional multipliers which economic base is best? sectoral change and economic development the service sector - engine of growth?. Part 3 Regional growth theory and policy - the burden of conventional wisdom: production functions and equilibrium - the neoclassical model disequilibrium models of regional growth and development development as a temporal process regional policy toward indigenous potential linkages, multilocational firms and technology. Part 4 Technological capability - the core of economic development: the linear model of technological change the impact of the product cycle on regional development technological change in the Third World learning technology learning and economic development. Part 5 Innovation in the firm - high technology in teh corporate context: the growth of corporate innovation management of technology science-push or market-pull? technology - a long wave view high technology industries - problems of definition and significance technological strategies of firms corporate organization of R and D activities global competition and strategic alliances licensing strategies and technological capability. Part 6 The location of economic activities - flexibility and agglomeration: industrial location and the role of labour large corporations and the spatial division of labour the location of non-production activities post-weberian location theory flexibility. Part 7 Creating technological places - nations, regions, and localities: national policies toward high technology industrial and technology policy in the third World technology transfer policies for regional high tech development directing technology. Part 8 Entrepreneurship and regional development: entrepreneurship - the problem of definition sectoral variations in firm formation entrepreneurial or creative regions venture capital and entrepreneurship incubators and spin-offs policies to promote entrepreneurship the prospects for policy in advanced countries entrepreneurship in the Third World. Part 9 Development in a fast-paced world - challenges and questions: technology and competitiveness the importance of skills infrastructure for development the challenge confronting the Third World the regional context of technological change.