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Tables of Contents for The Region in the New Economy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Figures and Tables
ix
Contributors
xiii
Preface
xix
Trends and Regional Policies in the New Economy: an Overview
1
18
Yoshiro Higano
Peter Nijkamp
Jacques Poot
Kobus van Wyk
Part A ICT, Transportation and Spatial Dynamics
Impacts of Transportation and Telecommunication on the Co-ordination of Production: a Typology
19
16
Antje Burmeister
Substitution and Complementarity Effects Between Telecommunications and Transportation: a Demand Perspective
35
12
Kingsley E. Haynes
Somik Lall
Serdar Yilmaz
Urban Planning and Information and Communication Technology: Perceptions, Ideas and Facts
47
22
Galit Cohen
Marina van Geenhuizen
Peter Nijkamp
High-technology Employment and Hub Airports: Infrastructure's Contribution to Regional Development
69
20
Kenneth Button
Samantha Taylor
Development of Border Regions: Have Sea-Border Regions Maintained Advantages over Land-Border Regions?
89
26
Marina van Geenhuizen
Piet Rietveld
Part B Innovation and Knowledge Production
Systems of Innovation: a Novel Conceptual Framework for Innovation Analysis
115
24
Manfred M. Fischer
Regulation, Competition, and Technological Change in Network Markets
139
16
Heli A. Koski
Technology and Industrial Cluster Analysis: Some New Methods
155
24
Roger R. Stough
Rajendra Kulkarni
Jim Riggle
Kingsley E. Haynes
The Contribution of Universities to Regional Economic Development
179
14
David Newlands
The Impact of Globalisation on Regional Labour Markets
193
28
Jacques Poot
The Impact of Regional Labour Flows in the Swedish Knowledge Economy
221
20
Lars Olof Persson
Part C Urban and Regional Sustainability in a Modern World
Sustainable Regions in an Unsustainable World: the Ecological Footprint Reconsidered
241
22
Adele Finco
Peter Nijkamp
Sustainable Settlement Development in South Africa: Coming to Terms with the Rest of the World
263
26
S.S.C. Odendaal
Economic Instruments and Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa
289
24
Jaap Arntzen
Sustainable Mobility in an Age of Internationalisation
313
18
Roger Vickerman
Part D New Perspectives on Regional Policy
Regional and Local Policies to Support Entrepreneurship
331
20
Ronald W. McQuaid
Local Economic Development: an Assessment of its Current Status in Southern Africa
351
20
Etienne Nel
Micro and Small Enterprise Sector Development Policy in Kenya: the Role of Local Authorities
371
18
Peter O. Ondiege
Competitive Integration and Territory: What Should be Done with Excluded Regions?
389
18
Cassio F.C. Rolim
Cumulative Causation and Decentralised Manufacturing Development in South Africa
407
Willem Naude
Waldo Krugell
Philip Serumaga-Zake