Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth
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- A timely and accessible review of our understanding of the complex links between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth
- A highly comprehensive roadmap of the range of issues addressed by research in these areas
- Discusses the most profitable ways forward for enhancing our understanding of arising issues
- Contributions from leading experts in the field take a variety of theoretical, empirical and institutional angles
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Philip McCann holds Endowed Chair of Economic Geography at University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He was formerly Professor of Urban and Regional Economics in the Department of Economics at University of Reading, UK. Professor McCann has been appointed as one of two Special Advisers to the European Commissioner for Regional Policy, providing expert counsel on matters related to the reform and future development of European Cohesion Policy.
Les Oxley is Professor of Economics at University of Waikato, New Zealand, Adjunct Professor at Curtin University of Technology, Australia, and an affiliate of Motu Economic and Public Policy Research. His research interests include modelling and testing theories of economic growth, financial econometrics, energy economics and cliometrics. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Economic Surveys and sits on the editorial boards of several international journals.
